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 | | Operating with a squadron of torpedo boats, she patrolled the harbor of Empedocle hoping to force German E-boats and Italian MAS boats out into the open for a fight. |
 | | At 0245 on 10 July as the first troops made their way ashore, she and her fellow destroyers NELSON (DD-623), MURPHY (DD-603), GLENNON (DD-620), JEFFERS (DD-621), MADDOX (DD-622), BUTLER (DD-636), GHERARDI (DD-637), HERNDON (DD-638), SHUBRICK (DD-639), and MCLANAHAN (DD-615) provided covering fire, extinguishing enemy searchlights and shore batteries. |
 | | For the next eleven days the "Mighty O" continued her shore bombardment interspersed with periods of convoying ships in and out of the area, chasing submarines, or fighting off air attacks. |
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