At the end of each year the Commanding Officers of all ships in the fleet are to submitte written report of his ships history to the Navy Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard.

These reports are released to the public when declasified. Histories were available for BUCHANAN (DDG 14) for all but the following years: 1962-67,1972, 1979, 1984, 1986-88.

I would like to thank Dick Zimmerman for getting copies we have and writing outline of 62-67. Also Marc Falkenhan for his work getting the reports into electronic format for display on this site.