USS Bates (DE 68)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 68
Built by	Bethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered	10 Jan 1942
Laid down	29 Mar 1943
Launched	6 Jun 1943
Commissioned	12 Sep 1943
Lost	25 May 1945
Loss position	26° 41'N, 127° 47'E

History	Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD- 47 on 31 July 1944. Sunk by Japanese kamikaze aircraft west of Okinawa in position 26º41'N, 127º47'E. 23 of the crew were killed and 37 wounded which includes the Commanding officer Lcmdr Henry Augustus Wilmerding,USNR and his Executive officer Lcmdr Horace Greenough Powell, USNR;there are 177 survivors in all rescued by the USS Fleming, Gosselin, PC-877 and the USS Reynolds.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Eugene Hugh Maher, USNR	12 Sep 1943	5 May 1944
2	Henry Augustus Wilmerding, Jr., USNR	5 May 1944	25 May 1945

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