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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...ed on 28 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. O. L. Hammonds; and commissioned on 27 July 1943, Lt. Comdr. H. A. Hull in command.
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...n and utter disregard of personal danger in the effort to repel the attack on the Naval Air Station, [[Kaneohe Bay]], [[Oahu]].
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• USS Sloat (DE-245)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...nched on 21 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. B. Deason; and commissioned on 16 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. [[Edmund Ernest García]] in command.
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...19 February 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Halford R. Greenlee; and commissioned on 23 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. A. Jackson, Jr., [[USNR]], in command. At war's
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...adron and, the next year, the North Atlantic Squadron until his retirement on 1 August 1894.
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• USS Swasey (DE-248)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...e States of America|Confederate]] forces near [[Donaldsville, Louisiana]], on 4 October 1862 and died the same day.
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• USS Howard D. Crow (DE-252)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...' 29 March. In the surprise [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] 7 December 1941, ''Maryland'' was moored inboard of ''[[USS Oklahoma (BB-
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• USS Pettit (DE-253)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. ...the southwest Pacific. In December 1945 she operated from [[Pearl Harbor]] on a weather patrol.
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• USS Ricketts (DE-254)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...here she joined a convoy destined for [[North Africa]]. The convoy cleared on the 14th, but ''Ricketts'' delayed her departure until the following day to
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...by Miss Genevieve Dahl, fiancé of ''Ensign Sellstrom''; and commissioned on 12 October 1943, Lt. Comdr. William L. Maloney, [[USCG]], in command.
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• USS Harveson (DE-316)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...ed when she collided with {{SS|William T. Barry}}<ref name=USNChron1943 /> on a foggy night off the [[Virginia Capes]]. Repairs were completed at [[Ports
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• USS Kretchmer (DE-329)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...ened shipping bound for [[Naples, Italy]], in preparation for the assaults on southern France. After returning to the United States 16 July, the escort s
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...was named in honor of Ensign Philip Michael Joyce who was killed in action on 19 February 1942 during the bombing of [[Darwin, Australia]]. She was laid
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• USS Kirkpatrick (DE-318)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war, she was converted to a [[radar ...ck who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] on 7 December 1941. She was launched 5 June 1943, by [[Consolidated Steel]] Co
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• USS Newell (DE-322)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post war, she served in various capacitie ...20 April 1944, [[Germany|German]] planes hit the convoy with a [[torpedo]] attack. At 2100 five planes were reported about six miles distant dead ahead. Four
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• USS Pride (DE-323)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. She returned home proudly at war’s end ...Jr., who was killed in the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], 7 December 1941. She was laid down by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Co., [[
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• USS Falgout (DE-324)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off California on 12 January 1977 ...wed by the [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and also served as a [[radar picket]] ship on the [[Distant Early Warning Line]].
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• USS Koiner (DE-331)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. Post-war, she was loaned to the [[U.S. Co ...essation of hostilities in Europe she began preparations for Pacific duty. On February 11, 1945, ''Koiner'' likely helped sink [[U-869]].
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• USS Strickland (DE-333)
  ...ean and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. Post-war, she served the U.S. Navy in oth ...on 2 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Everett Strickland; and commissioned on 10 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. A. J. Hopkins in command.
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• USS Roy O. Hale (DE-336)
  ...n]] and provided destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war, she provided [[radar picket]] d ...oy O. Hale, mother of ''Lieutenant (junior grade) Hale''; and commissioned on 3 February 1944, Lt. Comdr. William W. Bowie, [[USNR]], in command.
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