Since I wrote about the USS Card the past two days and I'd never heard of the ship, some more research was in order. Thanks Wikipedia.
The Card was a Bogue-class escort carrier, originally was to be a C-3 cargo ship, but while under construction was converted to an escort carrier. Laid down 27 Oct 1941, launched Feb 1942 and commissioned 8 Nov 1942.
Stats: 9,800 tons, length 496 feet, beam 69.6 feet, 890 officers and men and carried 28 planes.
Was the flagship of TG 21.14, a U-boat hunter-killer group and was very successful. Their first operation sank the U-117 7 Aug 1943, U-664 9 Aug 1943, U-525 11 Aug and U-847 27 Aug.
On the second cruise 29 Sept to 9 Nov, planes from the Card spotted nest of four subs refueling. On 4 Oct 1943 sank U-460 and U-422. Nine days later the U-402 and 31 Oct the U-584.
On Nov 1st, one of the Card's escort ships, the USS Bone, got into gunfight with the U-405 and rammed the sub and sank it but was so badly damaged, it had to be sunk herself.
So, Donald Brown certainly saw a lot od action on the Card.
More Operations Coming. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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