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USS BLESSMAN (DE-69/APD-48)
Named for Lieutenant Edward
Martin Blessman, b. 29 December 1907, Mott, SD; KIA 4 February 1942
somewhere in Pacific
Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Keel laid 03/22/43
Launched 06/19/43
Commissioned 09/19/43
First CO: Cdr J. A. Gillis
Redesignated 07/31/44
Returned to Pacific August to October 1945 after repairs on West
Coast
Decommissioned 01/15/47; three battle stars
Stricken 06/01/67
To Taiwan as CHUNG SHAN 07/03/67
Still serving Taiwan 1995
Unit of CortDiv 19
From
the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster.
March 2006
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