DATA Name: United States Ship Leutze. Type: Destroyer. Namesake: Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze, USN. Navy Classification: DD 481. Class: DD 445, Fletcher. Builder: Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Keel laid: 3 June 1941. Launched: 29 October 1942. Commissioned: 4 March 1944. Disposition: Decommissioned: 6 December 1945; Stricken: 3 January 1946; Sold for scrap to Thomas Harris, Barker, New Jersey, 17 June 1947.

Leutze’s armament was that of a typical Fletcher-class destroyer from 1943–4: five 5-inch guns in single mounts, ten 40mm guns in twin mounts and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes in quintuple mounts plus 20mm guns and depth charges. She returned to the west coast too late to receive the “1945 refit.”