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• USS Hissem (DE-400)
  ...submarine {{USS|Thresher|SSN-593}} 16-21 April. A month as school ship for sonar training at [[Key West, Florida]] was followed by two more days of duty on
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...nter-killer operations on 2 August. Four days later, ''Willis'' obtained a sonar contact at 1353 and fired a full "hedgehog" pattern which produced no posit ...ns soon thereafter; and, during the ensuing patrols, ''Willis'' obtained a sonar contact at 1147 on 14 September. She fired a pattern of "hedgehogs" and mad
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• USS Fiske (DE-143)
  ..., surfaced [[U-804]], quickly dived, but the two escorts picked it up on [[sonar]], and began their attack approach. Suddenly, ''Fiske'' was [[torpedo]]ed o ...aphed from an airplane based on the USS ''Wake Island'' (CVE-65); note the sonar dome on Fiske's [[keel]].
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  ...ree men had been taken on board, ''Flaherty'' picked the submarine up by [[sonar]], and moved in to attack. Seven other escorts joined her in the 10-hour hu
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  ...ations in the North Atlantic. While bound for New York 6 May, she made a [[sonar]] contact, very close, early in the morning. Just 5 minutes after it w
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  ...aribbean]], she arrived [[Key West, Florida]], 15 January 1952 to act as [[sonar]]-training ship. In May she steamed northward to take part in a cold-weathe ...and periodic overhaul, '''USS Ruse''' remained in the [[Key West]] area on sonar-training operations.
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...Over the next four years, ''Blair'' operated out of Newport and the Fleet Sonar School at [[Key West, Florida]], attached to Escort Squadron ([[CortRon]])
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• USS Sturtevant (DE-239)
  ...e spent in the Caribbean was devoted to work in conjunction with the Fleet Sonar School at [[Key West, Florida]], and with the [[Hunter-killer armored-vehic ...cted in the summer of 1955, she resumed her training duties with the Fleet Sonar School and normal operations for another year. She joined another midshipma
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...izerte]]. During the evening watch of the 31st, ''Tomich'' homed in on a [[sonar]] contact and went to [[general quarters]], proceeding to track down the ec
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  ...out of the area so that aircraft from {{USS|Croatan|CVE-25}} could drop [[sonar buoy]]s, which produced negative results.
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...aded for the target. The [[U-boat]] disappeared from the radar screen, but sonar contact was made. ''Stanton'' fired a pattern of hedgehogs and a deep rumbl ...ep explosions. [[Diesel fuel]] already covered the surface of the sea, and sonar contact slowly faded. This was the end of [[U-880]]. The task group returne
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  ...rew. After shakedown training she reported to [[Key West, Florida]], as [[Sonar]] School [[School ship|training ship]], helping develop new equipment and t
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...rvivors, including the tanker's captain, ''Joyce'' detected a submarine by sonar at 0950 and pressed home an attack. She dropped a deadly pattern of 13 [[de
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...acks against the deep-running submarine. Shortly after 0200 on 22 April, [[Sonar|soundmen]] detected underwater explosions which were probably evasive tacti
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  ...my 18 March 100 miles east of [[City of Halifax|Halifax]], ''Lowe'' made [[sonar]] contact and attacked with two patterns of [[Hedgehog (weapon)|hedgehogs]]
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• USS Janssen (DE-396)
  ...was torpedoed and sunk with great loss of life 24 April. Then upon making sonar contact, ''Janssen'', aided by other escorts, closed in on the enemy firing
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...ecember, ''Wilhoite'' assisted {{USS|Cockrill|DE-398|2}} in developing a [[sonar]] contact until 11 December, when ''Wilhoite'' headed for Norfolk.
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  ...ing primarily as a school ship for officers and enlisted students from the Sonar School. ...ewport and then reported on 25 September 1955 to provide services to Fleet Sonar School, Key West. Upon returning to Newport, in November ''Brough'' was giv
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ...rdous approaches to [[Kiirun]], making frequent changes of course to avoid sonar contacts which exhibited a suspicious similarity to those made by mines. On ...radar picket duty out of Key West as Southern Tip Picket, and two tours as Sonar School Ship at Key West. In April, a period of tender availability was cut
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• USS Peterson (DE-152)
  ...e [[Caribbean Sea]]. During these years she saw considerable duty as Fleet Sonar Schoolship at Key West. In July 1953 she visited [[Bergen, Norway]], and [[ ...issile nose cone that had penetrated the atmosphere. She resumed her Fleet Sonar schoolship duty at Key West 22 May 1958 and got underway 8 August for compe
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