The destroyer USS Murphy, launched on April 29, 1942, and commissioned on July 27, 1942, served in World War II in the invasion of North Africa in 1942, the invasion of Sicily in 1943, the Normandy invasion in 1944, the invasion of Southern France in 1944, convoy escort duty in the Atlantic, and in early 1945 escorted the cruiser Quincy carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Norfolk to the Yalta and Great Bitter Lake conferences; in September 1945, with the Fifth Fleet, it sailed to Japan and escorted the hospital ship Sanctuary bringing Allied prisoners of war home. On October 21, 1943, while waiting to perform anti-submarine escort duty for a convoy leaving New York Harbor, Murphy was struck by the tanker SS Bulkoil and cut in half; two hundred and eleven men were rescued, but thirty-five sailors died when the bow sank in the Atlantic, while the stern remained afloat, was towed back to New York for repairs, and after being refitted with a new bow, the ship continued to distinguish itself in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific theaters of the war. In August 2002, deep sea divers under Captain Dan Crowell investigated an unidentified wreck 260 feet below the surface, and on September 18, 2022, Crowell and his divers found evidence that it was Murphy's bow, the U.S. Navy grave site of the thirty-five men lost in the collision nearly sixty years earlier. Murphy received four battle stars and was decommissioned on March 9, 1946.