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	Destroyer Escort
		Of the 563 Destroyer Escorts built during and shortly after WW 2, 78 were for England, 6 for France, and 8 for Brazil.
		The first Destroyer Escort that was commissioned was the USS Brennan DE 13 on Jan 20, 1943, at Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif. the DEs would supply the United States Navy with the economical destroyer type ship which could be mass produced using less expensive material.
		The slow escort carriers launched all planes to attack the Japanese cruisers and battleships, and JOHN C. and her sisters laid heavy smoke to confuse enemy batteries.
	www.sunwestmonograms.com /wiseman/destroyer_escort.htm (3060 words)

	Buckley class destroyer escort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Buckley class destroyer escorts were 102 destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943 â“ 1944.
		Forty-six of the Buckleys were delivered to the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease agreement.
		They were classed as frigates and named after captains of the Napoleonic Wars and formed part of the Captain class frigates along with 32 ships of the Evarts class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buckley_destroyer_escort (331 words)

	Destroyer Escort
		Of the 563 Destroyer Escorts built during and shortly after WW 2, 78 were for England, 6 for France, and 8 for Brazil.
		The first Destroyer Escort that was commissioned was the USS Brennan DE 13 on Jan 20, 1943, at Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif. the DEs would supply the United States Navy with the economical destroyer type ship which could be mass produced using less expensive material.
		The slow escort carriers launched all planes to attack the Japanese cruisers and battleships, and JOHN C. and her sisters laid heavy smoke to confuse enemy batteries.
	www.sunwest-emb.com /wiseman/destroyer_escort.htm (3061 words)

	Articles - Destroyer escort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Destroyer Escort (DE) is classification for a small, comparatively slower warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Navy, Royal Navy and the Free French Navy in WWII.
		Full size destroyers must be able to keep up with and exceed the speed of fast capital ships, typically needing better than 25-35 knot speeds(dependent upon the era and navy) and carrying torpedoes and a relatively smaller caliber of cannon to use against enemy ships, as well as anti-submarine detection equipment and weapons.
		A destroyer escort need only be able to maneuver relative to a slow convoy, which in World War II would travel at 10 to 12 knots, and defend itself against aircraft, and to detect, chase down and attack a submerged (3 to 6 knot speed) or surfaced (22 knot speed) submarine.
	www.greensky.biz /articles/Destroyer_escort (749 words)

	The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Destroyer escorts were built in greater numbers than any other kind of Allied fighting ship during World War II, and more than one hundred thousand American and British sailors served aboard these ships; yet until now, little has been written about their crucial role in the U.S. and Royal Navies.
		The Buckley class was the second largest class of major combatants in the U.S. Navy and provided the greatest number of warships to Great Britain through lend-lease.
		A portion of the Buckley class was converted to high-speed transports and landed underwater demolition teams ahead of the amphibious assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/1557502803.html (1320 words)

	Second World War Books: Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first Buckleys were delivered for service in April 1943 and the first one arrived at New Caledonia in the Pacific at the end of the year.
		While the first U-boat sinking by a Buckley -- and it was DE 51, the Buckley itself, that made the kill -- didn't occur until May 1944, in the meantime sister ships began participating in escort duties and ASW hunter-killer groups in increasing numbers.
		Buckleys also supported the Anzio beachhead (with electronic countermeasures equipment for jamming German radio-controlled glide bombs), took part in the invasions of Normandy and southern France, assaulted the Philippines, and in the last months of the war suffered numerous kamikaze hits plus a single kaiten, or human-piloted suicide torpedo, strike which sank the Underhill.
	stonebooks.com /archives/991007.shtml (602 words)

	Warren Russell Gould
		The Destroyer Escort was designed for use by the British to protect shipping in the Atlantic from German submarines.
		The DE was an escort ship, but was designed to be a submarine killer, which is reflected in its type of weapons.
		The Destroyer Escort developed 6 classes by the end of the war.
	www.ww-iiheroes.com /WRG.html (1234 words)

	Bad Ship Model Kits
		This kit may be converted as the earlier Glover or Garcia class as originally built with the DASH hangar.
		class Destroyer, (DD-931 to DD-951), in 1/96 Scale.
		Escort of WW-II, comes equipped with precut wood parts, molded stack, 5" molded gun mounts, vacuum formed parts such as doors, ladders, etc., twin brass props, drive shafts, stuffing boxes and rudder assemblies, metal anchors, anchor chain decal sheet and flag.
	www.marylandsilver.com /badship.htm (1458 words)

	Destroyer Escorts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first Destroyer Escort that was commissioned was the USS Brennan DE 13 on Jan 20, 1943, at Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif. The DEs supplied the United States Navy with the economical destroyer type ship which could be mass produced using less expensive material.
		The USS SLATER-DE-766 is a Cannon Class Destroyer Escort.
		Of the 565 destroyer escorts produced in World War II, USS Slater (DE-766) is the only one remaining afloat in the United States, and the only one with original battle armament and configuration.
	pxarchive.tripod.com /navy/des.html (1424 words)

	Destroyers OnLine - Destroyer Escorts
		The destroyer escort class of ship came into existence as a less expensive ocean escort against the submarine threat.
		When opportunity provided, the destroyer escort could itself fulfill the mission of the destroyer by attacking surface ships with guns and torpedoes and serving as scout ships of the fleet.
		The Bronstein, Garcia and Knox destroyer escort classes were later redesignated as Frigates.
	www.destroyersonline.com /usndd/detypes.htm (178 words)

	Birth of the USS Rich
		USS RICH DD/DDE-820 was the successor to a Buckley Class destroyer escort, the USS RICH DE-695, sunk on June 8, 1944 off the Utah beaches during the Normandy invasion.
		As a multipurpose fleet destroyer she was equipped to combat submarines with both stern racks and side throwing depth charge projectors.
		Her silhouette was now changed considerably from that of the 1945 era destroyer with the addition of a helicopter deck and hanger abaft the number two stack.
	www.ussrich.org /profile1.htm (799 words)

	USS Wintle DE-25
		Escort Carriers, the "baby flat-tops," were designated CVE's and the joke was that they were nick-named after their design: "Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable." CVE's and DE's were regular companions escorting the vulnerable cargo ships.
		Later classes of the DE were a little wider, longer and deeper, and often had their ballast extended when used in the rough North Atlantic.
		The Destroyer Escorts were actually one of the first use of the important Lend-Lease program that Congress instituted to help arm the US allies during World War II.
	www.wintle.com /de25/INDEX.HTM (5709 words)

	info/guide/t/ta/tank_destroyer - Info and Guide. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On 13 November, she joined battleship Washington (BB-56) and destroyers Preston (DD-379), Walke (DD-418), Benham (DD-397), and Gwin (DD-433) to form TF 64 under command of Rear Admiral W. Lee.
		Escorted by destroyer Bulmer (DD-222), Seadragon moved south, via Surigao and Makassar strait to Soerabaja, where she disembarked her passengers; received further repairs, exclusive of a paint job, and prepared for.
		USS Underhill (DE-682) - Underhill (DE-682), a Buckley-class destroyer escort, was named in honor of Ensign Samuel Underhill, a naval aviator of the United States Navy who was killed in action during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
	pheeds.com /info/guide/t/ta/tank_destroyer.html (1975 words)

	HMS Byard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is a photograph of the USS Whitehurst, a Buckley Class destroyer escort.
		Soon after commisioning she joined Escort Group 4 (EG4) which, in Oct 1943 was escorting an Atlantic convoy of 52 ships when it was attacked by a Wolf-pack of 16 U-boats.
		In May 1945 HMS Byard was part of the escort of the last Russian convoy of 23 ships to Kola Inlet.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /handm.byard/HMSByard1.html (331 words)

	Index_1
		The operational careers of this hardworking class of fleet minesweepers is described by Jack Williams, a former crew member and founder of the Algerines Association.
		Some photographs of actual ships of this class are also included as they appeared towards the ends of their careers.
		One of the most famous Royal Navy destroyers of World War 2 is modelled in 1:720 scale using the low cost Revell kit with the addition of some etched brass.
	www.smallwarshipgroup.org.uk /page8.html (1737 words)

	USS Wiseman DE 667
		The destroyer escort also provided instructions in seamanship, gunnery,radar, sonar, and damage control to 80 midshipmen from the Republic of Korea( ROK) Naval Academy and 120 ROK Navy enlisted men.
		Every third weekend of the month, a reserve cruise took her to sea for periods of ASW training and during the summers the destroyer escort made two week reserve cruises.
		How ever in 1961, the Berlin crisis changed the veteran destroyer escorts routine after the building of the Berlin Wall heightened tensions in Aug. of that year.
	www.sunwest-emb.com /wiseman (1342 words)

	Reviews
		The new Trumpeter Buckley class destroyer escort is out and while a nice kit, it needs a little upgrading.
		The latter being the British version of the Buckley class but using weapons appropriate to the Royal Navy.
		The Captain class conversion parts are shown on page 5 if you chose to model your ships in a Royal Navy fit.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/pe/whiteensign/wem-3594-buckley/wem-review.html (355 words)

	Lend Lease Ship Names
		DE: 46 ships of Buckley class, rated at DEs, were transferred to the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease scheme and were operated by them as frigates.
		Jastrzab was mistakenly sunk by Allied convoy escorts [HMS Seagull and Norwegian destroyer St. Albans] off Norway on 2 May 1942 [while assigned to escort the convoy from the Shetlands to Murmansk, at 71°30' N, 12°32'E].
		These small transports, the size of a destroyer escort or frigate, were intended to ram a beach and deliver tanks and vehicles during the early stages of an invasion.
	www.ww2pacific.com /llnames.html (1136 words)

	The Enemy Below (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Enemy Below is a 1957 film which tells the story of battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German submarine during World War II.
		The movie focuses revolves around a Buckley class destroyer escort, the USS Haynes (DE-181), and a German U-boat in the south Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
		The destroyer is commanded by Captain Murrell ( Robert Mitchum), a former merchant marine sailor whose wife was killed when his freighter was sunk by a submarine during the war.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-Enemy-Below.htm (273 words)

	Destroyer Escorts
		With the large amount of Destroyer Escorts that had been ordered, there were not enough ship yards available to build these warships.
		After the end of World War II, many of the Destroyer Escorts were de-commissioned and placed in moth balls.
		In 1975 all Destroyer Escorts then in commission were re-designated Frigates (FF) and the type name DE was discontinued by the US Navy.
	www.pxarchive.de /home/navy/des.html (1433 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: USS Hubbard During WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Buckley -class destroyer escort USS Hubbard (DE 211) was constructed by Charleston Navy Yard as part of the massive WWII escort construction program.
		In the summer of 1945 Hubbard become one of the many destroyer escorts converted to fast transports for service in the Pacific.
		She was redesignated APD 53 on 1 June 1945 and converted at Sullivans Dry Dock, Brooklyn, emerging from the yard one day before Japan's surrender.
	www.hazegray.org /features/hubbard (314 words)

	USS Rich DE695 Survivors Association Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Buckley class Destroyer Escort USS Rich (DE695) had been dispatched to offer the Glennon assistance.
		As she rounded the crippled destroyer, a mine exploded approximately 50 yards off the Rich's starboard beam sending a huge geyser of murky, green water high into the air.
		By 0940, the proud Destroyer Escort USS Rich was gone, and with her, the lives of 89 of her crew...
	www.informediate.com /USSRichDE695 (164 words)

	Buckley Class Destroyer Escort of WWII model ship from BaD Ship Models
		Buckley Class Destroyer Escort of WWII model ship from BaD Ship Models
		Buckley Class Destroyer Escort & Edsall Class DE
		The Edsall Class DE model ship kit is almost the same as Buckley DE with the following changes
	www.badshipmodels.com /buckley.html (301 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Buckley-class Destroyer Escorts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Destroyer escorts were built in greater numbers than any other kind of Allied fighting ship during World War II.
		Booklist, May 1, 1999 The subjects of Franklin's superior monograph constituted the most numerous class of U.S. Navy destroyer escorts during World War II.
		Ships in Scale, Nov/Dec 1999 The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts is a must-have if you're modeling one, served aboard them, or love to read about warships.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/186176118X (571 words)

	Regional - North America - United States - Government - Military - Navy - Ships - Surface Combatant - Escort - Free ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Destroyer Escort - Submit your stories and photos, and read about other crewmember's experiences on destroyer escorts in this online gathering place for former crewmembers of destroyer escorts.
		USS Gillette (DE-681) - Buckley Class Destroyer Escort.
		USS Merrill (DE-392) - History of the ship and the Ensign she was named after.
	www.free-url-redirection.com.ru /resources/Regional/North_America/United_States/Government/Military/Navy/Ships/Surface_Combatant/Escort (686 words)

	USS Rich DE695 Dedication Page
		This website is dedicated to all of the men and women who have fought - and in many cases, died - to win and preserve the freedom that we now enjoy.
		Born in 1943, the Rich's duty was to escort convoys across the Atlantic, guarding cargo and troop ships against attack from marauding submarines patrolling the shipping lanes between the United States and Europe.
		After another Destroyer Escort had broken down shortly before Operation Overlord was to begin, the USS Rich was ordered to take her place, running cover for the battleship Nevada BB36 during the largest amphibious assault the world has ever known.
	www.informediate.com /USSRichDE695/Dedication/Dedication.htm (272 words)

	Warfleet.net \| Ship Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Buckley Class is an older design by USN standards compared to the modern ships under construction in the American Pacific Northwest and in California.
		Equipped with Foster Wheeler boilers and GE turbines, the Buckley represents a triumph of Henry Kaiser's new methods of mass production, provides a reliable and relatively inexpensivedesign to support Washington's expansionist ambitions.
		The Buckley's two quad torpedo racks make it a serious threat to enemy vessels, but its relatively sparse anti-aircraft defenses may be an Achilles heel.
	www.warfleet.net /a_de.htm (104 words)

	Sinking of the Reuben James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DD-245 was a post-World War I four stack destroyer with a crew of 101, capable of 35 knots, and a main armament of four 4 inch guns, a single 3 inch gun, and twelve 21 inch torpedo tubes.
		This escort force guarded convoys as far as Iceland, where they became responsibility of British escorts.
		DE-153 was a Buckley Class destroyer escort with a crew of 213, capable of 23.5 knots, and a main armament of two 5 inch guns, three 3 inch guns, and three 21 inch torpedo tubes.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/thesongs/SinkingOfTheR.htm (1506 words)

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