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USS Thompson

Two destroyers of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Thompson. The first, DD-305, was named for Richard Wigginton Thompson and served in the 1920s; the second, DD-627, named for Robert Means Thompson, served during World War II and the Korean War.

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