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USS ''George'' (DE-697) was a . She was the second ship of the United States Navy named after Seaman Second Class Eugene F. George (1925–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism on at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. ''George'' was laid down on 22 May 1943 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan. The ship was launched on 14 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Harlow F. George, the mother of Seaman George; and commissioned at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 20 November 1943, with Lieutenant Commander John E. Page in command. == World War II == After shakedown off Bermuda, ''George'' sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on 11 January 1944 to escort a merchantman from Norfolk, Virginia to Nouméa, New Caledonia, where she arrived on 19 February. Until the spring of 1944, ''George'' escorted transports to the Admiralties, the New Hebrides, and the Solomons during consolidation operations in the Solomons. On 16 May, she sailed from Florida Island, in the Solomons, in a hunter-killer group with and on what was to become one of the most successful anti-submarine actions in the Pacific war. During this patrol from 19 to 31 May, the three-ship team sank six Japanese submarines (, , , , , and ) in waters north of the Bismarck Archipelago. ''George'' arrived at Manus Island on 4 June after this feat, and during the next three months, she conducted anti-submarine patrols and escorted merchantmen to the New Hebrides, the Solomons, and the Marshall Islands. After serving briefly as station-ship at Funafuti, Ellice Islands, she steamed to Australia, arriving at Sydney on 12 October. After returning to Purvis Bay, Florida Island, on 28 October, ''George'' resumed anti-submarine patrols and escorted convoys to New Guinea, Manus, Guam, and Saipan. During the liberation of the Philippines, she escorted convoys out of Ulithi, and in February 1945, she escorted ships from Guam to Iwo Jima during the invasion and occupation of that embattled island. In addition, she served as air-sea rescue station, and on 18 April 1945, she rescued three survivors from a B-29 forced to ditch off Iwo Jima. During the summer of 1945, she made two escort voyages to Okinawa, one each from Ulithi and Guam; and, after the Japanese surrender, she delivered surrender terms on 12 September to the Japanese garrison stationed on Truk, Carolines. She departed Guam on 18 September, and sailed for the United States, where she arrived at San Pedro, California, on 5 October. 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 George (DE-697)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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