USS CROSS DE 448
"This photo was taken by me during one of our stops at Goat Island in Newport, Rhode Island.
I served in DE 448 from May 1953 through June 1955, just before it was decommissioned".
Photo submitted by Hank Trieckel, ET 2/C
Member, AZ Chapter of DESA
Named for
Lieutenant (jg) Frederick Cushing Cross, Jr., b. 8 July 1917,
Lunenburg, MA;
served in Bombing Squadron aboard CARD (CVE-11);
KIA 7 August 1943 when U-117 was sunk off Florida at 39° 32' N, 38°
21' W;
posthumous Navy Cross
Type: WGT
Builder: FED
Keel laid 03/19/44
Launched 07/04/44
Commissioned 01/08/45
First CO: Lt H. L. Minshall, Jr.
Decommissioned 06/14/46; one battle star
Recommissioned 06/06/51-01/02/58
Stricken 07/01/66
Sold 03/05/68, scrapped
Unit of CortDiv 89 From
the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster.
March 2006
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