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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 1078669" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>I am familiar with the fleet as my Dad served on the DE USS Pope named after the DD Pope sunk in the south Pacific.</p><p></p><p>USS Pope (DE-134) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.</p><p>She was named after commodore John Pope, born 17 December 1798 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. This ship also commemorated the destroyer USS Pope (DD-225) that had been sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942. She was laid down by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Texas, 14 July 1942; launched 12 January 1943;</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 1078669, member: 694"] I am familiar with the fleet as my Dad served on the DE USS Pope named after the DD Pope sunk in the south Pacific. USS Pope (DE-134) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was named after commodore John Pope, born 17 December 1798 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. This ship also commemorated the destroyer USS Pope (DD-225) that had been sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942. She was laid down by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Texas, 14 July 1942; launched 12 January 1943; [/QUOTE]
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