USS Cecil J. Doyle DE 368

USS CECIL J. DOYLE DE 368

Named for Marine Second Lieutenant Cecil John Doyle, b. 10 August 1920, Marshall, MN; "Ace" for shooting down five Japanese planes; KIA 7 November 1942, Solomon Islands, posthumous Navy Cross

Type: WGT
Builder: COT
Keel laid 05/12/44
Launched 07/01/44
Commissioned 10/16/44
First CO: Lt Cdr D. S. Crocker (2)
Decommissioned 07/02/46
Stricken 07/01/67
Target, sunk off Baja California 12/02/67
Unit of CortDiv 86
Rescued downed aviators

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006