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DE-641 William C. Cole
United States Navy destroyer escort
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Buckley - | 1943/09/05 Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Cal. | 1943/12/29 | 1944/05/12 | 1972/11/20
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| Namesake: VAdm William Carey Cole, USN *1968/08/23, +1932/09/01, 1917-19 CO Nevada, 1919-22 Ass CNO, 1923 ComSpecServRon Panama, 1923-25 C/S USFleet, 1926-28 CO Norfolk NY, 1928-29 ComBatDiv4, 1929-30 ComScoFlt, 1930-32 ComNavDistr12 | |||||
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| Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/14d | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 44/07/19 | 44/07/2? | sail from San Diego to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 44/07/2? | 44/08/01 | P.H. - training | 66 | ||
| 44/08/01 | 44/08/09 | escort P.H. > Majuro Bougainville, Admiralty Is., Kenneth Whiting, AO Neches, Alascosa, AF Aldebaran | 66 | ||
| 44/08/09 | 44/08/18 | escort Bougainville and Admiralty Islands from Majuro to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 44/08/18? | 44/08/21 | P.H. - availability | 66 | ||
| 44/08/21 | 44/08/28 | escort (with Melvin R. Nawman and Samuel B. Roberts) convoy from P.H. for Marshalls | 66 | ||
| 44/08/28 | 44/08/29? | detached from convoy to escort s/s Cape Page to Kwajalein | 66 | ||
| 44/09/0? | 44/09/15 | P.H. - avaiability | 66 | ||
| 44/09/01 | 44/09/0? | sail from Kwajalein to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 44/09/15 | 44/09/25 | escort Copahee from P.H. to Manus | 66 | ||
| 44/10/01 | 44/10/04 | sail from Manus to Port Purvis, Tulagi | 66 | ||
| 44/10/04 | 44/10/11 | CortDiv73 | Port Purvis, Tulagi - training | 66 | |
| 44/10/18 | 44/10/2? | escort s/s Cape Johnson from Lunga Point to Cape Torokina, then sail back to Tulagi | 66 | ||
| 44/11 | 45/02/03 | local escort duty from Tulagi to Guadalcanal, Bougainville, New Caledonia | 66 | ||
| 45/02/03 | 45/02/23 | Tulagi - gunnery exercises | 66 | ||
| 45/02/24 | 45/03/0? | Lunga Point - landing exercises with PhibRon4 | 66 | ||
| 45/03/10 | 45/03/13 | Lunga Point screen ransports while PhibRon4 loaded | 66 | ||
| 45/03/13 | 45/03/14? | sail from Lunga Point to Russell Islands | 66 | ||
| 45/03/15 | 45/04 | Iceber | 53.6 | 86 | |
| 45/03/2? | 45/03/31 | Iceber | 52.1.3 | temporarily attached | 66 |
| 45/03/21 | 45/03/2? | escort (with Paul G. Baker) AKA Theenim and Lacerta to Marianas, then sail to Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 45/04/05 | 45/04/1? | Iceber | 53.6 | escort TransDiv42 from Okinawa to Saipan, then sail to Ulithi | 66 |
| 45/04/13 | 45/04/17 | Iceber | 53.6 | escort TransDiv56 from Ulithi to Okinawa | 66 |
| 45/04/17 | 45/04/26 | Iceber | Okinawa - screening duty | 66 | |
| 45/04/26 | 45/04/30 | Iceber | 53.6 | escort (+ Bunch, Charles Lawrence and Richard W. Suesens) TransDiv104 Okinawa > Ulithi | 66 |
| 45/04/30 | 45/05/03 | Iceber | Ulithi - availability | 66 | |
| 45/05/03 | 45/05/13 | Yap - picket duty | 66 | ||
| 45/05/13 | 45/05/14 | Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 45/05/14 | 45/05/17 | sail from Ulithi to Okinawa (with West Virginia, Tuscaloosa, Chase) | 66 | ||
| 45/05/17 | 45/05/24 | Iceber | Okinawa - screening duty | 66 | |
| 45/05/24 | Iceber | damage(kami) 4 nm NE of Ie Shima, Okinawa (26-45N, 127-52E) | 85 | ||
| 45/05/30 | Kerama Retto | 66 | |||
| 45/05/31 | departed Kerama Retto for Saipan | 66 | |||
| 45/06/02 | 45/06/06 | escort convoy from rendezvous point to Ulithi (with Ringness) | 66 | ||
| 45/06/06 | 45/06/10 | escort (with Shields and George E. Davis) convoy from Ulithi to Leyte | 66 | ||
| 45/06/1? | 45/06/1? | sail from Leyte to Lingayen Gulf | 66 | ||
| 45/06/1? | 45/06/24 | escort LSTGrp104 from Lingayen to Okinawa | 66 | ||
| 45/06/10 | 45/06/1? | San Pedro Bay, Leyte - repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/06/25 | 45/06/30 | escort (with Witter and Forrest) Curtiss, ATA-124, ATA-125 and LCI-993 from Okinawa to Saipan | 66 | ||
| 45/07/02 | 45/07/11 | patrol E of Saipan | 66 | ||
| 45/07/11 | 45/07/22 | Saipan | 66 | ||
| 45/07/2? | 45/08/0? | escort APA Logan from Guam to Eniwetok | 66 | ||
| 45/07/22 | 45/07/2? | Guam | 66 | ||
| 45/08/0 ? | 45/08/08 | sail from Eniwetok to Saipan | 66 | ||
| 45/08/08 | 45/08/17 | Saipan - training exercises, AA practices, availability, patrol off Tinian | 66 | ||
| 45/08/1? | 45/08/2? | escort PC-1587 from Saipan to Iwojima | 66 | ||
| 45/08/2? | 45/10 | Iwojima - air-sea rescue duty | 66 | ||