USS John E. Kilmer
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USS John E. Kilmer

USS John E. Kilmer (DDG-134) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship was authorized for construction by Bath Iron Works on 27 September 2018. On 16 October 2019, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer announced that the ship will be named in honor of United States Navy Hospital corpsman John E. Kilmer, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in the battle.

The start of fabrication ceremony took place at a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works facility in Brunswick, Maine, on 8 November 2023.

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