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Lot USS Ward DD later APD construction and launching at Mare Island Navy Yard California. Shown Starboard view while moored June . Launched on June she was commissioned on July . Ward was redesignated as APD in February . USS Ward DD fired the first shots of WWII on December when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.