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DE-640 Fieberling
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Buckley - 1943
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Cal.
1944/04/02 1944/04/11 1972/11/20
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Namesake: Lt Langdon K. Fieberling, CVT-8(Det.)
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/10d


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
44/05/14       San Diego   88 
44/05/17 44/05/18     exercises out of San Diego (with Denver)   88 
44/05/22 44/05/23     eexrcises out of San Diego   88 
44/05/24 44/05/26     San Diego   88 
44/05/30 44/06/01     San Diego   88 
44/06/21 44/06/27     sail from San Francisco to P.H.   66 
44/07 44/09/03     3 escort trips P.H. <> Eniwetok   66 
44/09/08 44/09/27     sail from P.H. to Manus > Purvis Bay, Tulagi   66 
44/09/27 45/02/17     Tulagi and Funafuti - escort, air-sea rescue duty, station ship   66 
45/02/17 45/03/0?     Guadalcanal - amphibious rehearsals   66 
45/03/2? 45/04 Iceber 53.6     86 
45/04/05   Iceber   sinking/share miniSS off Okinawa  
45/04/06   Iceber   damage(kami) 15 nm NE of Ieshima, Okinawa Gunto (26-48N, 128-04E)   85 
45/04/09 45/04/1? Iceber 51.29.11 escort convoy from Okinawa to Saipan   66 
45/04/10   Iceber 51.29.11 sinking I-44 S of Okinawa  
45/04/2 ? 45/04/29     sail from Saipan to Okinawa   66 
45/04/29 45/06/28 Iceber   Okinawa - patrol, escort, RP duty   66 
45/05/20   Iceber   sinking/prob mini SS off Okinawa  
45/06/28 45/10/22     escort duty among Okinawa, Guam, Saipan   66 
45/07/11 45/07??     patrol E of Saipan   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1972/03/01 struck from Navy List
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 1 Battle Star
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