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DE-680 Loeser
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Buckley - 1943/07/27
Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Div., Quincy,
1943/09/11 1943/10/10 ????
target
Namesake: LtCdr Arthur Loeser, MO Atlanta, KIA 42/11/12 during x Guadalcanal
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WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
43/12/1?       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
43/12/1? 44/01/16     sail from Panama to Funafuti   66 
44/01/18 44/01/27     escort AP from Funafuti to Guadalcanal, then sail back   66 
44/01/28 44/01/31     sail from Funafuti to Efate   66 
44/02/1? 44/02/2?     Esp. Santo - gunnery training   66 
44/02/2? 44/06/28     Guadalcanal - transport-escort duty to Solomons   66 
44/06/28 44/07/18     sail from Guadalcanal to Esp. Santo > Sydney   66 
44/07/18 44/07/27     Sydney - repairs   66 
44/07/27 44/08/0?     sail from Sydney to Tulagi   66 
44/08/0? 44/08/21     Purvis Bay, Tulagi - Drydock   66 
44/08/21 44/09/05     escort AK Celeno, LST-120 (joined en route) from Tulagi to Guam   66 
44/09/05 44/09/10     Guam - ASW patrol   66 
44/09/10? 44/09/1?     escort 3 submarines from Guam to Eniwetok   66 
44/09/21 44/10/08     sail from Eniwetok to Guadalcanal > P.H.   66 
44/10/08 44/11/06     PHNY - engineering alternations   66 
44/11/06 44/11/18     sail from P.H. to Guadalcanal   66 
44/11/18 44/11/25     sail from Guadalcanal to Manus   66 
44/12       New Guinea - gunnery exercises   66 
44/12/30 45/02/07 Mike1 79     66 
45/02/07 45/02/19     sail from Lingayen Gulf to subic Bay > Leyte > Ulithi   66 
45/02/19 45/03/05     Ulithi   66 
45/03/05 45/03/19     sail from Ulithi to Iwojima   66 
45/03/19 45/03/28     Iwojima - ASW patrol   66 
45/03/28 45/04/02     sail from Iwojima to Eniwetok   66 
45/04/02 45/04/13     sail from Eniwetok to P.H.   66 
45/04/13 45/08/26     P.H. - submarine training duty   66 
45/08/26 45/09/03     sail from P.H. to San Francisco   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1968/08/23 struck from Navy List
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 2 Battle Stars
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