USS Brister DE 327
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USN National Archives Photo
Named
for Ensign Robert Earl Brister, b. 4 May 1920, Galveston, TX; KIA 2
May 1942 aboard CYTHERA
(PY-26) when she was torpedoed off North Carolina by U-402; there
were only two survivors, POWs in Germany until end of war;
U-402 sunk by aircraft from CARD (CVE-11) 10/13/43
Type:
FMR
Builder: COT
Laid down as O'TOOLE; name went to DE-527
Keel laid 06/14/43
Launched 08/24/43
Commissioned 11/30/43
First CO: Lt Cdr L. H. Crosby (1)
Decommissioned 10/04/46
Redesignated DER 09/01/55
Recommissioned 07/21/56-1968
Stricken 09/23/68
Sold 12/15/71, scrapped 1972
Unit of
CortDiv 57
Evacuated over 2,500 POWs from Taiwan
From
the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster.
March 2006
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