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USS ''Bangust'' (DE- 739) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She returned to the States at war's end with a near-record setting number of eleven battle stars. ( earned the highest number for destroyer escorts: twelve.) She was named in honor of Joseph Bangust who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in the air against the Japanese early in the war. The ship was laid down on 11 February 1943 at Los Angeles, California, by the Western Pipe and Steel Company; launched on 6 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Stephen W. Gerber; and commissioned at her builder's yard on 30 October 1943, Lt. Comdr. Charles F. MacNish, USNR, in command. ==World War II service== After fitting out, ''Bangust'' reported for shakedown training on 21 November 1943, and conducted these operations from San Diego, California. Deemed ready to join the fleet upon the completion of her shakedown on 18 December, ''Bangust'' underwent post-shakedown availability at the Naval Drydocks, San Pedro, California, and ultimately reported to Commander, Western Sea Frontier, for duty on 9 January 1944, as she cleared San Pedro for San Francisco, California. Departing thence on 13 January for Hawaiian waters, in company with , ''Bangust'' arrived at Pearl Harbor on 19 January. ''Bangust'', ''flagship'' for the Commander, Escort Division (CortDiv) 32, sailed on her first escort mission on 25 January. She stood out of Pearl Harbor in company with , , and , all bound for the Ellice Islands. The task unit was dissolved when it arrived in Funafuti on 2 February, and ''Bangust'' continued on to the Gilbert Islands that same day. The destroyer escort reached Makin on the 5th and then moved to Tarawa the next day. On 8 February, she sailed in company with to rendezvous with and three merchantmen for the voyage to Majuro in the Marshall Islands. ''Bangust'' and ''Greiner'', however, received new orders on the 10th that sent them back to Tarawa, where they arrived that same day. After that false start, the warship got underway again on the 18th with elements of Marine Night Fighter Squadron VMF(N)-532 embarked. She rendezvoused with and and then headed for Kwajalein in the Marshalls. ''Bangust'' and her traveling companions made Roi Namur at Kwajalein on the 21st, and the two escorts returned to Tarawa on the 24th. Assigned to the Commander, Task Group (TG) 57.7 on 1 March for local escort and patrol duties, she operated in the immediate vicinity of Tarawa harbor until 7 March 1944. Between 8 and 18 March, ''Bangust''s embarked division commander served as senior officer present afloat (SOPA) at Tarawa, and the warship remained anchored there during that time. Soon thereafter, on 19 March, ''Bangust'' joined to escort to Apamama lagoon, arriving the same day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Bangust (DE-739)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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