Allied Warships

USS Woodson (DE 359)

Destroyer Escort of the John C. Butler class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassJohn C. Butler 
PennantDE 359 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Mar 1944 
Launched29 Apr 1944 
Commissioned24 Aug 1944 
End service11 Aug 1962 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 15 January 1947.
Recommissioned 19 May 1951.
Decommissioned 11 August 1962.
Stricken 1 July 1965.
Sold 16 August 1966 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. James Louis Foley, USN24 Aug 1944???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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