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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  |Ship laid down=9 November 1942 ''Otterstetter'' was laid down 9 November 1942 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]]; launched 19 January 1943
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• USS Sloat (DE-245)
  |Ship laid down=21 November 1942 ...[[John Drake Sloat]] (1781–1867). She was laid down on 21 November 1942 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]]; launched on 21 January 1
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  |Ship laid down= 7 December 1942 ...he [[Navy Cross]] during [[World War I]]. She was laid down on 7 December 1942 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., Inc., [[Houston, Texas]]; launched on 19 Feb
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  |Ship laid down=7 December 1942 She was laid down on 7 December 1942 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]]; launched on 21 February
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  |Ship laid down=30 December 1942 ''Swasey'' (DE-248) was laid down on 30 December 1942 by the [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]]; launched on 18 March
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...nor of Ensign Philip Michael Joyce who was killed in action on 19 February 1942 during the bombing of [[Darwin, Australia]]. She was laid down 8 March 194 ...Nagasaki|Sasebo]], [[Japan]], as escort for a convoy of amphibious landing ships.
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• USS Falgout (DE-324)
  |Ship namesake=[[George Irvin Falgout]] (1922-1942), [[Navy Cross]] recipient ...oss]] posthumously. During the [[Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]] 12 November 1942 he remained at his gun, blazing away at a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] [[ai
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• USS Koiner (DE-331)
  ...Lieutenant (j.g.) James Duval Koiner who was killed in action 13 November 1942 during the [[Battle of Guadalcanal]]. She was laid down 26 July 1943, by [[ ...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
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• USS Strickland (DE-333)
  ...named in honor of Ensign Everett C. Strickland who was killed on 9 August 1942 during the [[Battle of Savo Island]]. She was laid down on 23 August 1943 ...izerte]]. The voyage to [[Gibraltar]] was uneventful; but, once the Allied ships entered the Mediterranean, they were trailed by German planes. The [[Luftwa
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• USS Roy O. Hale (DE-336)
  ...]] for his valiant actions during the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]], 7-8 May 1942. She was laid down on 13 September 1943 by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp. ...y until the surrender of [[Germany]], her first [[convoy]] consisted of 24 ships bound for [[Taranto]], [[Italy]]. On 20 July, 4 days after reaching her des
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• USS Martin H. Ray (DE-338)
  ...heroic actions during the last stages of the [[Battle of Midway]], 6 June 1942. She was laid down 27 October 1943 by [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp., [[Orang * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  ...Cross]] posthumously for his brave actions in the [[Aleutian Islands]] in 1942. She was laid down 26 March 1943 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Rhodes (DE-384)
  ...ught her last battle, the [[Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]], on November 13, 1942. She was laid down by the [[Brown Shipbuilding|Brown Shipbuilding Company]] ...he 13th, then sailed east, escorting convoy UGS-30 to [[Gibraltar]], where ships of the [[Royal Navy]] relieved [[CortDiv]] 23. Returning 23 February, she d
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• USS Janssen (DE-396)
  ...ieutenant (j.g.)]] Ralph Wille Janssen who was killed in action 26 October 1942 during the [[Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands]]. She was laid down by [[Bro ...er-killer]] group. In the months that followed, ''Janssen'' and her sister ships attacked numerous submarine contacts while cruising between the [[United St
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• USS Neunzer (DE-150)
  ...honor of Machinist Weimar Edmund Neunzer, who was killed in action 2 July 1942 during the [[Aleutian Islands]] Campaign and was posthumously awarded the [ ...vered, the force ran through a very severe storm which damaged some of the ships. The patrol was finally broken off; the task group refueled at [[Ponta Delg
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• USS Stockdale (DE-399)
  ...hipbuilding]], [[Houston, Texas]] on 15 July 1942; launched on 22 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. [[L.C. Stockdale]]; and commissioned on 31 December 1943 ...t)|Junkers]]" made bombing runs on the convoy and the escorts. No merchant ships of the convoy were damaged, but {{USS|Holder|DE-401|2}} was [[torpedoed]] a
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• USS Daniel (DE-335)
  ...til his death 2 days after the action off [[Santa Cruz Island]] 26 October 1942. Private First Class Daniel was posthumously awarded the [[Navy Cross]] for [[Category:Ships built in Texas]]
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• USS Edsall (DE-129)
  |Ship laid down=2 July 1942 |Ship launched=1 November 1942
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  ...1. Attached to Patrol Squadron 44, Ensign Camp was killed in action 7 June 1942 during the [[Battle of Midway]]. ...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
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• USS Marchand (DE-249)
  |Ship laid down=30 December 1942 ...s laid down by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]], 30 December 1942; launched 30 March 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Charles D. Marchand, mother of '
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