file created: 12/07/02 01:02:31 , last update: 05/31/02
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DE-40 Sanders
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Evarts - 1942/09/07
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton
1943/06/18 1943/10/01 1947/05/08
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WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
44/01 44/07     Gilberts, Marshalls - patrol and escort duty   66 
44/04/01     57.10.9 land Ailuk Atoll, Marshalls   85 
44/04/02     57.10.9 land Mejit Is., Marshalls   85 
44/05/29 44/06/02     shell and reconnaissance Kusaie Is., Carolines   66 
44/06/24       Eniwetok   88 
44/08 44/10     escort support ships to Marianas   66 
44/11 45/03     Gilberts, Marshalls - patrol and escort duty   66 
45/04 45/06 Iceber 50.8.4     70 
45/06/2? 45/07/15     sail from Okinawa ? to P.H. > San Francisco   66 
45/07/15 45/12     San Francisco   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: ex BDE-40, 43/06/14 > Sanders, 43/06/16 > DE-40, 46/01/08 struck from Navy
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 4 Battle Stars
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