Editing Campbelltown, Pennsylvania (section)

==HMS ''Campbeltown''==
{{HMS|Campbeltown|I42}} was a World War II Royal Navy destroyer used in the [[St Nazaire Raid]] whose bell was donated to the municipality after the war.
[[File:HMS Campbeltown.png|thumb|British Commander Robert Boddy, Campbelltown representative Abner Spangler, British consul-general H. C. McClelland, and Lebanon Mayor William Focht at the bell’s gifting ceremony in 1950.]]
In 1940, the [[Lend-Lease]] agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom was signed that gave 50 of the [[United States Navy]] [[destroyer]] in exchange for leases on British bases in the Western Hemisphere. One of these ships, USS ''Buchanan'', launched in 1919, became HMS ''Campbeltown''. Its namesake was [[Campbeltown]] of [[Argyll|Argyll County]], [[Scotland]], and its American counterpart, was Campbelltown of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Groh |first=Joshua |date=March 26, 2021 |title=Eight decades after the HMS Campbeltown exploded in a strategic World War II raid, its bell resides peacefully in Campbelltown |url=https://lebtown.com/2021/03/26/eight-decades-after-the-hms-campbeltown-exploded-in-a-strategic-world-war-ii-raid-its-bell-resides-peacefully-in-campbelltown/ |access-date=June 2, 2024 |website=Lebtown}}</ref>

After the war, the bell resided in the Scottish Campbeltown until 1950, when British consul-general H. C. McClelland wrote a letter to the mayor of Lebanon announcing that the ship's bell was being bequeathed to the city in recognition of a special bond between the town and the United Kingdom. The bell sits in the South Londonderry Township municipal building as a symbol of Campbelltown.<ref name=":1" /> In 1988 the people of Campbelltown voted to lend the bell to the new ship {{HMS|Campbeltown|F86}} for as long as she remained in Royal Navy service.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=7 August 2010|publisher=[[Royal Navy]]|title=Ship's Bell|url=http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/type-22-frigates/hms-campbeltown/history/|archive-date=5 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205131801/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/type-22-frigates/hms-campbeltown/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The bell was returned to the town on June 21, 2011 when HMS ''Campbeltown'' was decommissioned. A new [[Type 31 frigate|Type 31]] HMS ''Campbeltown'' was announced as part of the new Inspiration class of frigates for the Royal Navy on May 19, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New 'Inspiration Class' Type-31 warships named|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-inspiration-class-type-31-warships-named|access-date=2021-05-19|website=GOV.UK|language=en}}</ref>

{{Geographic Location (8-way)
|Centre = Campbelltown
|North = [[Palmyra, Pennsylvania|Palmyra]]
|Northeast = [[Annville, Pennsylvania|Annville]]
|East = Mount Pleasant
|Southeast = Colebrook, Mount Wilson
|South = Plainville, Bachmanville
|Southwest = [[Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Derry Township, Dauphin County]], [[Conewago Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Conewago Township, Dauphin County]]
|West = [[Hershey, Pennsylvania|Hershey]]
|Northwest = Palmdale
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