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Irene Hirano Inouye (left), future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) sponsor and wife of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, and a Bath Iron Works employee etch Inouye’s initials on to the keel plate during the ship’s keel authentication ceremony in Bath, Maine, May 14.
180514-N-IJ355-001.JPG Photo By: (Courtesy of) Dennis Griggs, Bath Iron Works

BATH, Maine - Irene Hirano Inouye (left), future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) sponsor and wife of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, and Frank Woods, Bath Iron Works welder etch Inouye’s initials on to the keel plate during the ship’s keel authentication ceremony in Bath, Maine, May 14. The ceremony symbolically recognizes the joining of modular components and the ceremonial beginning of the ship. The ship's namesake, Daniel Inouye, served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Sen. Inouye received the Medal of Honor for his heroism while serving with the 442nd Infantry Regiment in Italy during World War II. During an assault on April 21, 1945, he lost his right arm but continued to fight until the Regiment's position was secured. Arleigh Burke destroyers are multi-mission surface combatants that serve as integral assets in global maritime security, engaging in air, undersea, surface, strike and ballistic missile defense, as well as providing increased capabilities in anti-submarine warfare, command and control, and anti-surface warfare. (RELEASED)


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