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USS Price (DE-332)
USS ''Price'' (DE-332) was an built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war she was assigned additional duties, including those of a radar picket ship.
She was named in honor of Lieutenant (junior grade) Edward Max Price who was killed in action in the Battle of the Coral Sea 8 May 1942. She was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, 24 August 1943; launched 30 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Ray P. Reynolds; and commissioned 12 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. W. Higgins, Jr., USNR, in command.
==World War II North Atlantic operations==
After shakedown off Bermuda, ''Price'' departed Norfolk, Virginia, on convoy escort duty 23 March. On the night of 11 April German planes attacked in force, leaving dead in the water from a torpedo hit. ''Price'' shot down one plane, then escorted Holder, towed by rescue tug , into Algiers, before continuing on to Bizerte, Tunisia. She then escorted a return convoy to the United States, subsequently escorting two more convoys to Bizerte.
On 28 September, she was detached from task force TF 65, and with the rest of Escort Division 58, was assigned to task group TG 21.7 and duty escorting vital convoys across the stormy North Atlantic. By 29 May 1945 she had escorted five convoys across the Atlantic and back.
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