USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864)
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USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864), named for Ensign Harold John Ellison USN (1917-1942), assigned to Torpedo Squadron Eight on board USS Hornet (CV-8), killed in action during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942, posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and shared the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to VT-8, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 3 October 1944, launched on 14 March 1945 by Mrs. Audrey Ellison, the widow of Ensign Ellison and commissioned on 23 June 1945. Harold J Ellison alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet, was assigned to Project Mercury as a part of the recovery unit on the Atlantic range in 1962, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the New York Naval Shipyard, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam. USS Harold J. Ellison was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 October 1983, transferred to Pakistan and renamed Shah Jahan. The ship was scrapped in 1994.