USS BIVIN (DE-536)

Named for Seaman First Class Vernard Eugene Bivin, b. 23 November 1921, Greenville, KY; KIA 12 October 1942 aboard SALT LAKE CITY (CA-25), Battle of Cape Esperance; posthumous Navy Cross

Type: WGT
Builder: BNY
Keel laid 11/03/43
Launched 12/07/43
Commissioned 10/31/44
First CO: Lt Cdr M. Kelly
Decommissioned 01/15/47
Stricken 06/30/68
Target, sunk off Baja California 07/17/69

Unit of CortDiv 78

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

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