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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ...ary transportation (given to the newly established Transportation Corps in 1942)[http://www.qmfound.com/former_missions.htm] In 1812 we sailed to war in ships my boatwrights built. I fought beside you in the deserts of our great Sout
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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 Brister (DE-327)
  |Ship ordered=1942 ...[[United States Navy]], named for [[Ensign]] [[Robert E. Brister]] (1920–1942).
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• USS Dale W. Peterson (DE-337)
  ...g enemy [[bomber]]s attacking his [[aircraft carrier|carrier]] 20 February 1942, and was [[posthumous recognition|posthumously awarded]] the [[Distinguishe * [[USS Peterson]], for similar named ships
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  |Ship laid down=9 November 1942 ...emy air attack. A wave of [[torpedo]] and medium [[bomber]]s damaged three ships in her convoy but were driven off by the escort's [[antiaircraft]] fire bef
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• USS Jacob Jones (DE-130)
  |Ship laid down=26 June 1942 |Ship launched=29 November 1942
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• USS Hammann (DE-131)
  |Ship laid down=10 July 1942 as ''Langley'' |Ship launched=13 December 1942 as ''Hammann''
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• USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132)
  |Ship laid down= 30 June 1942 ...obert E. Peary]], the famous [[Arctic]] [[explorer]] and laid down 30 June 1942 by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Co., [[Orange, Texas]]; launched 3 January 19
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  |Ship laid down=7 November 1942 * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  |Ship laid down= 30 November 1942 * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Farquhar (DE-139)
  |Ship laid down=14 December 1942 [[Category:Ships built in Texas]]
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• USS J.R.Y. Blakely (DE-140)
  |Ship laid down=16 December 1942 ...January 1944, and a third during February through March 1944, as American ships began the great buildup in [[Europe]].
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• USS Hill (DE-141)
  |Ship laid down=21 December 1942 * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  ...S. Navy]] in honor of Admiral [[Harry McLaren Pinckney Huse]], who died in 1942. ...ning home, engaged in [[antisubmarine]] patrol work off [[Gibraltar]] with ships of the [[Royal Navy]].
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...bombed by Japanese planes near Port [[Darwin, Australia]], in mid-February 1942. ...[USS Livermore (DD-429)]] for medical treatment. He re-embarked as the two ships were catching up with their task group, [[Task Force|task group]] TG 21.14,
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  ...humously for his valiant actions before he was killed in action 26 October 1942 during the [[Battle of Santa Cruz]]. ...s detected when her [[radio]] transmissions were picked up, and planes and ships of the [[Task Force|task group]] pressed home a firm attack. ''Chatelain''
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• USS Poole (DE-151)
  ...mpt to reach the flooding panel through overpowering gas fumes, 12 October 1942. * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Sturtevant (DE-239)
  |Ship laid down= 15 July 1942 |Ship launched= 3 December 1942
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• USS Moore (DE-240)
  |Ship laid down=20 July 1942 |Ship launched=21 December 1942
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  |Ship laid down=15 September 1942 |Ship launched=28 December 1942
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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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• USS Douglas L. Howard (DE-138)
  |Ship laid down=8 December 1942 [[Category:Ships built in Texas]]
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• USS Stewart (DE-238)
  {{Other ships|USS Stewart}} |Ship laid down=15 July 1942
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• USS Swenning (DE-394)
  ...ed States Naval Service. Swenning died just a few days later on December 1 1942 and was posthumously awarded the [[Navy Cross]] for his valiant efforts dur ...ads]] to rejoin the Bogue group, now designated as task group TG 22.2. The ships sortied on 5 May on [[antisubmarine]] patrol. They called at Casablanca aga
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• USS J. Richard Ward (DE-243)
  |Ship laid down=30 September 1942 ...uilt around [[USS Tripoli (CVE-64)]]. Departing [[New York]] 15 March, the ships patrolled the Atlantic between the [[Brazil]]ian coast and the [[Cape Verde
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• USS Keith (DE-241)
  {{For|United States Navy ships named ''Willard Keith''|USS Willard Keith}} |Ship laid down=1942
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• USS O'Reilly (DE-330)
  ...in the [[Battle of Savo Island]] in the Eastern [[Solomons]] on August 9, 1942. It was laid down on July 29, 1943, by [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp., [[Oran * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Price (DE-332)
  ...ax Price who was killed in action in the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]] 8 May 1942. She was laid down by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp., [[Orange, Texas]], * [[List of United States Navy ships]]
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• USS Pope (DE-134)
  |Ship laid down=14 July 1942 ...2. She was laid down by Consolidated Steel Co., [[Orange, Texas]], 14 July 1942; launched 12 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Rae W. Fabens; and commissione
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• USS Pillsbury (DE-133)
  |Ship laid down=18 July 1942 ...laid down by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp., [[Orange, Texas]], 18 July 1942; launched 10 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Elsie G. Richardson; and commi
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  |Ship launched=15 April 1942 ...ong Kiet'' and pennant number HQ-16 are confirmed by ''Jane{{'s}} Fighting Ships 1973-1974'', p. 592, and the United States Coast Guard Historian's Office a
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