USS ALEXANDER J. LUKE DE 577
Named
for Marine Platoon Sergeant Alexander Joseph Luke, b. 18 April
1916, Philadelphia, PA; KIA 7 August 1942, Tulagi, Solomons;
posthumous 1st Marines PUC and Silver Star
Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Keel laid 11/05/43
Launched 12/28/43
Commissioned 02/19/44
First CO: Lt Cdr Herbert A. Peterson
Redesignated DER 12/07/45
Decommissioned 10/18/47
Redesignated DE August 1954
Stricken 05/01/70
Target, sunk off Newport, RI, 10/22/70
Unit of CortDiv 66
In
1946
 Photos submitted by Billy Joe Crawford RM 3/C. Enlisted in the Navy in late 1943, at 16 years of age. Attended boot camp
at Sampson, NY and radio school at Bedford Spring, Penn. Went aboard DE-577 mid-1944 at NOB Norfork, Va. and served on board until the end of 1945. Discharged in April 1946.
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