US MISSILE LAUCHNER DESTROYER USS "COLE" DDG-67 - 2006

Description

The second USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and delivered to the Navy on 11 March 1996. On 12 October 2000, the Cole was damaged and 17 of its sailors killed by a suicide attack in the Yemeni port of Aden. (Scale : 1/350e)