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USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)

The second USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) is an Arleigh Burke-class "Aegis" guided missile destroyer homeported in Mayport, Florida. The ship's motto is "We Stick Together."

The ship is named in honor of five brothers - George, Francis, Eugene, Madison, and Albert Sullivan, aged 20 to 29 - who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in November 1942 in the Battle of the Solomon Islands. This was the greatest sacrifice by any one family during World War II.

There was another The Sullivans; see USS The Sullivans (DD-537).

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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross | Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter | Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd

List of destroyers of the United States Navy