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{{Short description|Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=''Borie''
|Ship namesake=[[Adolph E. Borie]]
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|Ship builder=[[Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]]
|Ship laid down=29 February 1944
|Ship launched=4 July 1944
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|Ship country=Argentina
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Argentina|naval}}
|Ship name=''Hipólito Bouchard''
|Ship namesake=[[Hippolyte de Bouchard]]
|Ship acquired=1 July 1972
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|Ship decommissioned=1984
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|Ship identification=D-26
|Ship fate=Broken up for scrap 1984
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|Ship class={{Sclass|Allen M. Sumner|destroyer}}
|Ship displacement=2,200 tons
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*12 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm]] AA guns,
*11 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]] AA guns,
*10 × [[American 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s,
*6 × [[depth charge]] projectors,
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'''USS ''Borie'' (DD-704)''', an {{Sclass|Allen M. Sumner|destroyer}}, was the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for [[Adolph E. Borie]], [[Secretary of the Navy]] under President [[Ulysses S. Grant]].

==Construction==
''Borie'' (DD-704) was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 4 July 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., [[Kearny, New Jersey]] sponsored by Mrs Albert Nalle (née Patty Neill Borie, great-grandniece of [[Adolph E. Borie]]); and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 21 September 1944.

==Service history==

===World War II===
''Borie'' joined the [[United States Pacific Fleet|Pacific Fleet]], arriving at [[Pearl Harbor]] 4 January 1945. She took part in the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]], both the bombardment (24 January) and invasion (19–23 February). After joining [[Task Force 58]], she participated in the [[Tokyo]] raids (16–17 and 25 February), [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] raid (1 March), and the raids in support of the occupation of Okinawa (17 March–14 May). From 9 July to 9 August, she served with [[Task Force 38]] in its [[Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II|raids on the Japanese home islands]]. On 9 August, four ''[[kamikaze]]''s attempted to crash into ''Borie'', one achieving a hit on superstructure between the mast and the 5-inch gun director, causing extensive damage, killing 48 men, and wounding 66. The 3 other were shot down or missed. Due to the hit the ''Borie''{{'}}s rudder was locked.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Alexion |url=https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/william-alexion/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=StoryCorps Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Korean War===
The damaged destroyer returned to [[Saipan]] and Pearl Harbor for temporary repairs and on 10 September entered [[dry dock]] at [[Hunters Point, San Francisco, California|Hunter's Point, California]], for permanent repairs. Repairs completed on 20 November, she departed [[San Diego]] 4 February 1946 to join the [[U.S. Atlantic Fleet|Atlantic Fleet]]. ''Borie'' remained in the Atlantic Fleet, except for one cruise to [[Korea]] (6 September 1950 – 9 June 1951), during which she served with TF 77 and took part in the [[Hungnam Evacuation]]. ''Borie'' made at least five European and Mediterranean cruises. During a deployment (28 July-4 December 1956), she assisted in the evacuation of American nationals and United Nations truce teams from Haifa, Israel and Gaza, Egypt. She returned to more routine operations, with a few notable exceptions, her 1959 recovery of the [[Little Joe 2|Project Mercury nose cone and Sam, the space monkey]] and her 1960 surveillance duties with the [[Polaris missile]] [[submarine]]s {{USS|George Washington Carver|SSBN-656|2}} and {{USS|Robert E. Lee|SSBN-601|2}}.

In 1961 she completed her [[Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization]] (FRAM) overhaul. In the Caribbean in 1962, she rescued nine Cubans seeking asylum in the U.S. and, later, three Jamaican fishermen, and then joined the U.S. blockade during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] where ''Borie'' participated in forcing a diesel-powered Russian submarine to the surface, then offered the submarine aid and supplies.  ''Borie'',  with two other destroyers, escorted the submarine out of the area.  During the night, ''Borie'' received orders to head for the Panama Canal and wait for 20 amphibious ships from the west coast to establish an attack task force.  Over the ensuing years, she acquired a Drone Antisubmarine Helicopter (DASH) system and during a Mediterranean deployment, rescued an [[F-8 Crusader]] pilot whose plane crashed in a landing attempt on the [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|Shangri-La|CVA-38|2}}.

===Vietnam War and decommissioning===
In February 1968, ''Borie'' began her [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] deployment, serving in the [[Gulf of Tonkin]] as [[plane guard]] and completing radar picket duty. On the gun line, her gunners fired over 7,000 rounds at enemy positions at [[Phan Thiet]] and in the [[Mekong Delta]]. Returning to peacetime operations in 1969, ''Borie'' became a [[United States Navy Reserve|naval reserve]] [[training ship]] until June 1972, when she was decommissioned. She was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 July 1972.

===Service in the Argentine Navy===
{{other ships|ARA Bouchard}}
She was sold to the [[Argentine Navy]] and renamed '''''Hipólito Bouchard'' (D-26)''' after the Argentine [[privateer]], [[Hippolyte Bouchard]] and had four [[Exocet]] [[anti-ship missile]]s fitted in 1977–78.<ref name="conways47 p7">{{Harvnb|Gardiner|Chumbley|1995|p=7}}</ref> ARA ''Bouchard'' saw action in the [[Falklands War]], forming a part of the escort for the aircraft carrier {{Ship|ARA|Veinticinco de Mayo|V-2|2}} during the [[1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands|initial Argentine invasion]] on 2 April 1982. On 26 April ''Bouchard'' and [[sister ship]] {{Ship|ARA|Piedra Buena|D-29|2}} formed the escort for the [[cruiser]] {{ship|ARA|General Belgrano}} when ''Belgrano'' set out from [[Ushuaia]] in response to the approaching British Task Force, and was present when on 2 May 1982, ''Belgrano''  was torpedoed and sunk.<ref name="burd p179-2">{{Harvnb|Burden ''et al'' 1986|pp=179–182}}</ref>
In author Michael Rossiters' 'Sink the Belgrano', (Random House, London, 2009), it says Belgrano was unable to send any Mayday signal because of electrical failure; this and poor visibility meant the two escorting destroyers, (both also ex-United States Navy vessels), were unaware of the sinking until some hours later. A total of 323 men were killed. During the torpedo attack, the crew felt an impact which was believed to have been one of the three torpedoes fired from {{HMS|Conqueror|S48|6}}. They later found four cracks in the hull which were thought to have been a torpedoe striking at the end of its run.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9lquBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA231 |title= Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon |first= Roger |last= Branfill-Cook |publisher= Seaforth Publishing |date= 2014 |isbn= 9781848322158 |page= 231 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/18/argentina.falklands |title= Hit by two torpedoes |newspaper= The Guardian |first= Narendra |last= Sethia |date= 18 October 2000 }}</ref>

On the night of 17/18 May a helicopter was tracked by the radar of ''Bouchard'', who sent a message to her sister ship [[USS Collett (DD-730)|ARA ''Piedrabuena'']], patrolling on the north, and then to the naval base of Río Grande.<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/diario/96/03/31/mikado.html ''Mikado: la operación que no fue''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422055032/http://www.clarin.com/diario/96/03/31/mikado.html |date=22 April 2009 }} {{in lang|es}}</ref> In fact, a [[SH-3 Sea King]] reconnaissance mission on Río Grande had been launched by the British from {{HMS|Invincible|R05|6}} as a prelude to [[Operation Mikado]], but after detecting the Argentine radar signal, the crew of the Sea King and members of the SAS flew to Chile, where they destroyed their aircraft.<ref>Anderson, Duncan (2002). ''The Falklands War 1982''. Volume 15 of Essential histories. Osprey Publishing, p. 43. {{ISBN|1-84176-422-1}}</ref> Argentine Navy reports claim that ''Bouchard'' shelled a submarine and a number of inflatable boats while on patrol two miles off Rio Grande on the evening of 16 May 1982, during an alleged British attempt to land special forces on Tierra del Fuego.<ref>[http://www.irizar.org/823facchin-speroni.pdf ''El Bouchard y el Fracaso de la Operación Británica Mikado''] by Eugenio L. Facchin y José L. Speroni {{in lang|es}}</ref>

She was broken up for scrap in 1984.

==Awards==
''Borie'' received three [[battle star]]s for her World War II services and four battle stars for her participation in the [[Korean War]].

==Notes==
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==References==
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/borie-ii.html}}
*{{cite book|last1=Burden|first1=Rodney A.|last2=Draper|first2=Michael I|last3=Rough|first3=Douglas A.|last4=Smith|first4=Colin R.|last5=Wilton|first5=David|title=Falklands: The Air War|year=1986|publisher=British Aviation Research Group|location=Twickenham, UK|isbn=0-906339-05-7|ref={{harvid|Burden ''et al'' 1986}} }}
*{{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Chumbley|editor2-first=Stephen|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995|year=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland, USA|isbn=1-55750-132-7}}

== Further reading ==
*{{Cite book |last1= Facchin |first1= Eugenio Luis |title= Un buque, dos banderas, mil combates: Bouchard "D-26" |year=2013 |language=es |isbn=978-987-28586-0-5 |location= Buenos Aires, Argentina |url= http://www.fuerzasaeronavales.com/?p=4692 |access-date=2016-10-01 }}
*{{Cite book |last1= Facchin |first1= Eugenio Luis |title=The Untold Story of a Fighting Ship: One Ship, Two Flags, a Thousand Battles |year=2022 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-92624-3|isbn= 978-3-030-92623-6 |s2cid= 248111284 }}

==External links==
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/704.htm navsource.org: USS ''Borie'']
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd704txt.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Borie'']
*[http://www.destroyers.org/nl-histories/dd704-nl.htm destroyers.org: USS ''Borie'' (DD-704)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051001105033/http://www.destroyers.org/nl-histories/dd704-nl.htm |date=1 October 2005 }}
*{{in lang|es}} [http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada%20Argentina/Buques1900a1970/DDBouchard-1974.htm Histarmar: Destructor A.R.A. "Bouchard" D-26] (Retrieved 2016-10-01)

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