USS Chester T O'Brien DE 421

USS Chester T. O'Brien DE 421

USS CHESTER T. O'BRIEN DE 421

"Date Unknown. Photo taken some where in the Caribbean"

Photo submitted by Dick Spangler, YN 3
Aboard Jan 1951 to April 1952

Named for Marine Platoon Sergeant Chester Thomas O'Brien,
b. 1 August 1897, Lyons, NY; KIA 24 January 1943, Guadalcanal;
awarded Silver Star

Type: WGT
Builder: BST
Keel laid 01/21/44
Launched 02/29/44
Commissioned 07/03/44
First CO: Lt Cdr R. D. White
Decommissioned 07/02/46
Recommissioned 03/28/51-02/21/59
Stricken 07/01/72
Sold 04/04/74
Unit of CortDiv 76
Served in Atlantic and Pacific

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