Keel laid 18 March 1946 at the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, NJ.

Work on Ericsson has progressed as her superstructure takes form in late 1940.

Ericsson is being outfitted on 2 January 1941.

Letter from Chief of Naval Operations regarding commissioning of Ericsson.

John Ericsson Society honors DD440 with a plaque, 9 March 1941.

Ericsson DD440 enters Havana, Cuba during shakedown cruise in Spring of 1941.

DD440 shows off her paint scheme in the North Atlantic in 1942.