Allied Warships

USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE 219)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 219 
Built byPhiladelphia Navy Yard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 Feb 1943 
Launched29 May 1943 
Commissioned15 Dec 1943 
End service1 Aug 1962 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 20 April 1946.
Recommissioned 5 February 1951.
Decommissioned 1 August 1958.
Recommissioned 2 October 1961.
Decommissioned 1 August 1962.
Stricken 30 January 1970.
Sunk as a target 20 July 1970.

 

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1Cdr. R. V. Randolph, USN15 Dec 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts

Bruce Hampton Franklin

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