DE Classified
USS Frederick C. Davis
USS FREDERICK C. DAVIS (DE-136) was an Edsall-Class destroyer escort which escorted convoys in the Atlantic protecting ships and chasing U-Boats. She was torpedoed while attacking U-546 and this is her story.
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24 January 1943: USS F.C. DAVIS prior to her launching in Orange, Texas.
Photo courtesy of Mike Green via Navsource.org
Frederick Curtice Davis.
Photo from DEHM.
USS FREDERICK C. DAVIS (DE-136).
Photo from DEHM.
USS FREDERICK C. DAVIS steaming in the Atlantic.
Photo courtesy of Mike Smolinski via Navsource.org
A large plum of water from a depth charge explosion
between two destroyer escorts, USS FREDERICK C. DAVIS AND USS FLAHERTY. Photo by DEHM.