USS Bangust DE 739

USS BANGUST DE-739

Named for Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Joseph Bangust, b. 30 May 1915, Niles, OH; KIA 27 December 1941 as a PBY waist gunner, Patrol Squadron 101, when plane shot down over Jolo Harbor, PI; posthumous Navy Cross
(see WATERMAN, DE-740)

Type: DET
Builder: WPS
Keel laid 02/11/43
Launched 06/06/43
Commissioned 10/30/43
First CO: Lt Cdr C. F. MacNish
Decommissioned 11/17/46
11 battle stars

To Peru as CASTILLA 02/21/52
Arrived Peru 05/24/52
Stricken (US) 04/18/52
Stricken 1979

Unit of CortDiv 32, flag

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

Photo courtesy of the USN War College