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• USS Hill (DE-141)
  ...via [[Ponta del Gada]], [[Azores]], and returned to the States 18 January 1944. During the next year the destroyer escort made four more [[transatlantic]]
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• USS Fessenden (DE-142)
  ...]], returning to Norfolk 5 November 1943. Between 23 November and 18 March 1944, she escorted [[convoys]] on two voyages to [[Casablanca]], then on 3 April She sailed from Norfolk next on 12 June 1944, and escorted a convoy as far as [[Gibraltar]], where she was detached to e
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  ...a]], ''Huse'' escorted another [[convoy]] to Africa 25 January-11 February 1944, then, before returning home, engaged in [[antisubmarine]] patrol work off ...air group on three separate occasions. She arrived [[Brooklyn]] 2 October 1944 for repairs and training, after which she conducted exercises in [[Chesapea
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...cle team|hunter killer]]" force that embarked on its mission on 24 January 1944. While crossing the Atlantic, she stopped briefly at [[Horta (Azores)|Horta
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  ...ports to [[Derry]] and [[Gibraltar]] between 20 November 1943 and 7 March 1944, and was then assigned to operate as part of the [[Hunter-killer armored-ve Her first action took place 9 April 1944, as her group sailed from [[Casablanca]] to the United States. [[Unterseebo
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• USS Poole (DE-151)
  ...tankers and transports) to ports in the [[United Kingdom]] and, after June 1944, on the [[Europe]]an Continent.
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• USS Moore (DE-240)
  ...ar she had transited the Atlantic to [[North Africa]] twice. On 13 January 1944, she relieved ]]USS Decker (DE-47)]] for a month of operations off the [[Ne
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...pier "K" of the [[New York Navy Yard]] for availability which lasted into 1944. On 5 January 1944, Tomich departed the yard and proceeded to [[Block Island Sound]] for gunne
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  ...Christmas Day]]. She made a convoy escort voyage to Casablanca in February 1944.
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• USS Sloat (DE-245)
  On 10 January 1944, ''Sloat'' joined UGS-30 en route to Casablanca and returned with GUS-29 on ...inion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] and returned to New York on 9 October 1944. The escort operated along the East Coast until 24 January 1945 when she jo
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  ''Snowden'' got underway for a short training cruise to Norfolk on 5 January 1944 and then escorted {{USS|Arkansas|BB-33}} to New York. In January, she escor ...ned task group TG 22.5 and operated in the [[Caribbean]] until 30 December 1944 when it returned to Norfolk. On 25 March 1945, the task group sailed to the
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...d States]] on 15 December 1943 and arrived safely at New York on 3 January 1944. ...screen of {{USS|Croatan|CVE-25|6}} and returned to New York on 13 November 1944. The task group then proceeded to Guantánamo Bay via Norfolk to hold joint
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...ful crossing, the escort was waiting to enter New York Harbor on 3 January 1944 when an explosion rocked {{USS|Turner|DE-648|6}} {{convert|3000|yd}} away.
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• USS Hurst (DE-250)
  ...cort ships. ''Hurst'' reached [[Lisahally]], [[Northern Ireland]], 5 March 1944, and one week later returned to New York with another convoy.
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  ...mber, saw it safely to [[Casablanca]], and returned to New York 24 January 1944. In the months that followed, ''Howard D. Crow'' made 10 arduous escort vo
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• USS Pettit (DE-253)
  ...Montauk Point]], [[New York]], and [[Casco Bay]], [[Maine]]. From February 1944 to June 1945, she escorted trans-Atlantic convoys principally between [[Der
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• USS Ricketts (DE-254)
  ...blanca]], [[French Morocco]]. ''Ricketts'' returned to New York 24 January 1944, thus completing her only convoy run to the [[Mediterranean]]. ''Ricketts'' sailed from New York 22 February 1944 on the first of 12 escort voyages to Northern Europe and back. She saw a bu
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  On 13 January 1944, ''Sellstrom'' departed Norfolk as a unit of Task Force 63 bound for [[Gibr
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• USS Harveson (DE-316)
  ...a Capes]]. Repairs were completed at [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], by February 1944, and the destroyer-escort joined Escort Division 22. Departing [[New York]]
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• USS Kretchmer (DE-329)
  ...edown]] ''Kretchmer'' departed [[Charleston, South Carolina]], 15 February 1944, for operations in the Caribbean. Based at [[Port-of-Spain, Trinidad]], she Between 20 September 1944 and 27 April 1945, ''Kretchmer'' sailed as escort to five convoys from [[Ne
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