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| | USS Morris (DD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | With the entry of the United States into World War II, she entered the Charleston, N.C., Navy Yard, where she was equipped with the first fire control radar to be installed on a destroyer. |
 | | Attached to TF 17, the destroyer sailed 16 March, for Noumea, and into her first major enemy engagement, the Battle of the Coral Sea. |
 | | During the action she destroyed six aircraft and once more came to the rescue of a sinking carrier, the Hornet (CV-8), from which she took on 550 survivors. |
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