[Milsurplus] Navy Ship Callsigns Online

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At 02:56 PM 7/6/2007, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>Earlier ships of the same name:
>USS Fiske, DE-143, Edsall Class, Launched Orange, TX 3/14/43, Lost 2/8/44.

Makes sense.... DD842 was Gearing launched late WW2

>USS Myles C. Fox, DE-546, John C. Butler Class, Cancelled 6/44.

I remember the story about the cancellation and reassignment
of the name to the new DD, but wondered how the DE data still
hung around since it never materialized.... strange..:-)

Tnx

Perry
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