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* The first USS "Finch" (AM-9) was commissioned in 1918 and sunk in enemy action in 1942
* The second USS "Finch" (DE-328) was named shortly after the first USS "Finch" went down in battle. She was commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947
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