USS DESTROYER SQUADRON WW2

Description

1 Sumner Class
1 Amesbury Class APD (APD version Buckley)
1 DE Buckley class
1 DE Evarts class
USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)
, was the lead ship of her
class
of
destroyers
. The ship was named for
Allen Melancthon Sumner
, a
United States Marine Corps
captain
, who was killed in action during
World War I
USS Amesbury (DE-66/APD-46)
, a
Buckley-class
destroyer escort
of the
United States Navy
, was named in honor of
Lieutenant (jg)
Stanton Morgan Amesbury (1916–1942), who was killed in action while flying from the
aircraft
carrier Uss Ranger
The
Buckley-class destroyer escorts
were 102
destroyer escorts
launched in the
United States
in 1943–44. They served in
World War II
as
convoy
escorts and
anti-submarine warfare
ships. The lead ship was
USS Buckley
which was launched on 9 January 1943. The ships had
General Electric
steam
turbo-electric transmission
. The ships were
prefabricated
at various factories in the
United States
, and the units brought together in the shipyards, where they were welded together on the
slipways
.
Uss Evarts DE 5 After
anti-submarine warfare
training and experiments with
radar
in
Chesapeake Bay
, Evarts began steady service as a convoy escort, during much of which she flew the flag of Commander, Escort Division 5 (CortDiv 5). After five voyages to
Casablanca
, she sailed from
Norfolk, Virginia
, on 22 April 1944 on her first run to
Bizerte
. Two days before reaching that port, her convoy came under heavy attack by enemy
torpedo bombers
, and Evarts joined in the protective
anti-aircraft
barrage which shot down many of the attackers.
During the homeward bound passage of this same voyage, on 29 May, Evarts was detached from the convoy to aid the
escort carrier
Block Island
and destroyer escort
Barr
, both of whom had been
torpedoed
by a
German
submarine
. She arrived at the given position to find Block Island had sunk, but screened Barr, under tow, to safety at Casablanca. A second voyage to Bizerte was uneventful, as were the one to
Palermo
and the three to
Oran
which followed.
Completing her convoy escort duties on 11 June 1945, Evarts acted as target in exercises with submarines at
New London, Connecticut
, until arriving at
New York
on 11 September. There she was decommissioned on 2 October 1945, and was scrapped starting on 12 July 1946.