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DE-796 Major
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Buckley - 1944/08/16
Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.
1944/10/23 1944/02/12 1973/11/27
scrap
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WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
45/02/2?       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
45/04/0? 45/04/2?     escort convoy from Hollandia to Leyte Gulf   66 
45/04/01       Manus   66 
45/05 45/07/2?   75 Leyte Gulf - ASW, transport, convoy duty   66 
45/07/2? 45/07/2?     escort LST convoy from Leyte to Okinawa   66 
45/08/01 45/08/07     escort LST convoy frm Okinawa to Leyte   66 
45/08/07 45/08/17     Leyte Gulf   66 
45/08/18 45/09/01     escort convoy from Manila to Tokio Bay   66 
45/09/01 45/09/2?     Tokio Bay   66 
45/09/02       Tokio Bay - surrender ceremony   81 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1972/12/01 struck from Navy List
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