USS Rogers (DD-876)
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USS Rogers (DD-876), named for Jack Ellis Rogers Jr., Charles Ethbert Rogers and Edwin Keith Rogers, three brothers killed in action board USS New Orleans (CA-32) during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands on 30 November 1942, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 3 June 1944, launched on 20 November 1944 by Mrs. J. E. Rogers, Sr. and commissioned on 26 March 1945. Rogers operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, alternated operations along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters with deployments to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Charleston Naval Shipyard in 1963, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon and Market Time operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam. USS Rogers was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 October 1980, transferred to South Korea on 25 July 1981 and renamed Jeong Ju.
Rogers was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation for action in Hawaiian waters on 14 January 1969 when she came alongside USS Enterprise (CVN-65) to assist during a raging flight-deck fire.