USS Belet DE 599 APD 109

USS BELET (DE-599/APD-109)

Named for Marine Master Technical Sergeant Robert Alfred Belet, b. 6 August 1914, Blairstown, NJ; KIA 12 September 1942, Guadalcanal; posthumous Silver Star

Type: TEV
Builder: BHM
Keel laid 01/26/44
Launched 03/03/44
Redesignated 07/17/44
Commissioned 06/15/45
First CO: Lt Cdr A. P. Merrill
Decommissioned 05/22/46
Stricken 12/12/63
To Mexico as CALIFORNIA 12/12/63
Grounded, total loss, off Baja, CA, 01/16/72

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