Future destroyer Thomas Hudner leaves Bath Iron Works for open ocean

Navy Times: A Navy warship named for a naval aviator who crash-landed his plane to try to save a downed pilot has departed from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works.

The future destroyer Thomas Hudner headed down the Kennebec River to open ocean on Wednesday.

Hudner, a Korean War veteran who was awarded the Medal of Honor, witnessed the christening of the ship in April 2017 and died months later in his native Massachusetts.

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