USS Mitscher (DD-927)
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USS Mitscher (DD-927), named for Admiral Marc Andrew “Pete” Mitscher USN (1887-1947), was a Mitscher class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine on 3 October 1949, reclassified as a destroyer leader and designated DL-2 on 2 February 1951, launched on 26 January 1952 by Mrs. Marc A. Mitscher, widow of Admiral Mitscher and commissioned on 15 May 1953. She was converted to a guided missile destroyer at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard between 18 March 1966 and 29 June 1968 and designated DDG-35. USS Mitscher was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1978, and sold for scrap in July 1980.
| Mitscher-class destroyer |
| Mitscher | John S. McCain | Willis A. Lee | Wilkinson |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |