USS Davis (DD-937), named for Commander George Fleming Davis USN (1911-1945), commanding officer of USS Walke (DD-723), killed in action at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippine Islands on 6 January 1945 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts on 1 February 1955, launched on 28 March 1956 by Mrs. G. F. Davis, widow of Commander Davis and commissioned on 28 February 1957.
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