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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...tal corpsmen may be assigned the responsibility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marine Force, Special Forces and Seabee units, and at ...oup of Marines on Mt. Suribachi that day. They also served on thousands of ships and submarines. Notably, three unassisted emergency [[Appendicectomy|append
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• USS Lansing (DE-388)
  |Ship decommissioned=21 May 1965 ...1957 for operations out of Pearl Harbor as a radar picket. From 1957 until 1965 she made regular patrols, ready to provide early warning in the event of an
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• USS Hissem (DE-400)
  ...ed to DER-400. The special purpose of DER (Destroyer Escort Radar picket) ships was the detection of aircraft. Their chief role was to extend the [[Distan ...the Atlantic Fleet by way of the Mediterranean, arriving 15 May. Early in 1965 ''Hissem'' was transferred to the Pacific Fleet. After a 5-month training p
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  |Ship struck=1 April 1965 ...in reserve 17 June 1946. She was struck from the [[Navy list]] on 1 April 1965 and sold for scrap on 4 November 1966.
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1965}} |Ship decommissioned=June 1965
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  |Ship struck=1 November 1965 ...ladelphia Navy Yard]]. She was struck from the [[Navy List]] on 1 November 1965. In April 1967, she was towed from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], to the P
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• USS Kretchmer (DE-329)
  ...er'' continued picket and training operations in the Atlantic until 21 May 1965, when she entered [[Boston Naval Shipyard]] for overhaul prior to deploymen * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  ...hog (weapon)|hedgehogs]]. The [[depth charge]] attacks with those of other ships of the group brought an oil slick and large amounts of debris to the surfac ...of that country as a part of [[Operation Market Time]]. In early September 1965, she returned to her new homeport, [[Guam]], for a period of rest and upkee
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• USS Newell (DE-322)
  ...]]., to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], to train pre-commissioning crews for sister ships of her division. Two weeks, later {{USS|Menges|DE-320}}, {{USS|Mosley|DE-32 ...broke in two and sank. [[Newell]] and Menges picked up 119 survivors. The ships then searched the area for additional survivors for three hours.
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• USS Koiner (DE-331)
  ...ruise 31 August, ''Koiner'' commenced escort duty for United Kingdom-bound ships. From 20 September 1944 to 1 May 1945, the destroyer escort sailed with fiv ...ne|Continental Air Defense System]] in the Pacific Barrier. From 1956 into 1965, ''Koiner'' operated on picket stations off the [[Washington (U.S. state)|W
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  ...uise by returning to [[Newport, Rhode Island]], via the [[Suez Canal]]. In 1965, when she did not serve with “Deep Freeze”, ''Mills'' was underway [[sc * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  The [[transatlantic]] passage proved largely uneventful; but, as the Allied ships transited the Strait of Gibraltar, the British antiaircraft cruiser {{HMS|C ...{{convert|18|mi|km}} northeast of UGS-40. Two minutes later, the screening ships commenced their barrage. Observers in ''Wilhoite'' saw the attacking planes
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  |Ship flag={{USN flag|1965}} ...missioned=18 September 1943 to 22 March 1946<br />7 September 1951 to June 1965
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  ''Vance'' next got underway on 12 April, with the other ships of CortDiv 45 and a Navy-manned destroyer escort division, to screen the 10 ...of Navy destroyers. Three days later, after an extensive hunt, the relief ships sank ''U-616''.
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ..., every precaution was taken to minimize damage and casualties, should the ships strike a mine. The American sailors maintained a state of readiness to repe The ships maintained a condition of modified general quarters and stationed armed gua
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• USS Frost (DE-144)
  |Ship struck=1 April 1965 ...in reserve 18 June 1946. She was struck from the [[Navy list]] on 1 April 1965. On 29 December 1966 she was sold and scrapped.
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• USS Peterson (DE-152)
  {{For|other ships of the same name|USS Peterson}} |Ship flag={{USN flag|1965}}
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  ...om [[New York]] to ports of the [[United Kingdom]], guarding convoys whose ships brought troops and mountains of equipment and supplies for the buildup and ...oast Guard]] crew was removed. She was reclassified DER-251 on 7 December 1965, ''Camp'' was recommissioned 31 July 1956 for duty as [[radar picket]] ship
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...63. This task force was engaged in escorting convoys of 60 to 80 merchant ships from United States ports to the Mediterranean Theatre. ...r each convoy, the SAVAGE and her sister ships safely escorted hundreds of ships loaded with vital war materials safely past the heavy enemy submarine and a
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ''Haverfield'' returned to Pearl Harbor March 1965 and, after joining Escort Squadron 5, sailed 19 June for duty off [[South V * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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