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• Military cadence
  A V-Disc About this sound (help·info) issued in 1944 credits the origin of Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant) to Private Willie Duc
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...sea duty started arriving at the station on August 10, 1943. By January 1, 1944, there were 600 Purser-Corpsmen at sea, with 1,324 graduates in the Maritim * Work Cited: Mast Magazine May 1944, Mast Magazine August 1944, Mast Magazine May 1945
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• USS Durant (DE-389)
  ...ight voyages as a convoy escort to north African ports between 10 February 1944 and 12 June 1945, guarding men and supplies essential to victory in the Eur
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• USS Brister (DE-327)
  Between June 1944 and June 1945, ''Brister'' made two successful trans-[[Atlantic]] escort cr
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• USS Lansing (DE-388)
  After shakedown, ''Lansing'' departed [[Norfolk, Virginia]], on 13 February 1944 on her first transatlantic cruise escorting convoy UGS 33 bound to [[Casabl
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• USS Hissem (DE-400)
  |Ship commissioned=13 January 1944 ...Elizabeth D. Hissem, sister of Ensign Hissem; and commissioned 13 January 1944, Lieutenant Commander W. W. Low in command.
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• USS Dale W. Peterson (DE-337)
  |Ship commissioned=17 February 1944 ...[N. F. Peterson]], mother of Ensign Peterson; and commissioned 17 February 1944, [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[A. A. Hero]] [[United States Navy Reserve|USNR]
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...o Ordnance Depot]], ''Willis'' departed [[Galveston, Texas]], on 5 January 1944 in company with {{USS|Kretchmer|DE-329}} bound for the British West Indies ...ue'' during the periods: 26 February to 19 April 1944, and 4 May to 3 July 1944."
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• USS Holder (DE-401)
  |Ship commissioned=18 January 1944 |Ship struck=23 September 1944
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• USS Menges (DE-320)
  ...[Shakedown (testing)|shakedown]] off [[Bermuda]], ''Menges'' spent January 1944 on "schoolship" duty in the lower [[Chesapeake Bay]]. On 26 January she got
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  ...German submarine U-73 (1940)|''U-73'']] by two of her group. On 21 January 1944 the escort sortied from Naples for the Anzio landings, during which her sup After a return to escort duty in the Mediterranean in June and July 1944, ''Frederick C. Davis'' cleared Naples 9 August for Corsica, her staging po
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• USS Fiske (DE-143)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1944}} |Ship fate=Sunk by enemy fire<br />August 2, 1944
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• USS Leopold (DE-319)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1944}} |Ship fate=Sunk by enemy action on 10 March 1944
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  ...''Jacob Jones'' joined {{USS|Card|CVE-11|2}} off [[Cape Henry]] 24 January 1944. At that time the [[escort carrier]] was busy carrying troops and [[aircraf ''Jacob Jones'' departed New York 28 March 1944 and joined five other destroyer escorts escorting a convoy bound for [[Movi
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• USS Hammann (DE-131)
  ...o [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]], covered the period 13 July 1943 to 10 March 1944. During this period she screened convoys in company with [[escort carriers] Between 28 March 1944 and 29 November 1944 the busy ship made no less than six more voyages successfully con-voying to
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• USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132)
  ...ne 1945, she escorted 10 convoys to the [[United Kingdom]] and, after June 1944, to [[France]].
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  ...t coast to [[Casablanca]] on [[convoy]] escort duty. At Norfolk on 7 March 1944, she joined the [[Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team|hunter-killer]] group Returning to [[New York]] 27 April 1944, ''Flaherty'' rejoined the Guadalcanal group at [[Norfolk, Virginia]], 10 M
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  ...''Herbert C. Jones'' patrolled off the [[Italy|Italian]] coast 22 January 1944 while Allied troops stormed ashore to establish the [[Anzio]] beachhead. Wi In December 1944 she joined a [[Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team|hunter-killer]] task forc
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  ...plenishment and repairs before joining a new convoy at Norfolk. On 3 April 1944, she sailed for Casablanca once more, this time in a [[Hunter-killer armore Returning to New York 9 June 1944, ''Farquhar'' trained in [[antisubmarine]] warfare at [[Bermuda]] with the
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• USS J.R.Y. Blakely (DE-140)
  ...ember 1943 through January 1944, and a third during February through March 1944, as American ships began the great buildup in [[Europe]]. ...before retiring to protect Wake Island. She returned to New York 16 August 1944.
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