USS Gary (DE 326)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Edsall
Pennant	DE 326
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	15 Jun 1943
Launched	21 Aug 1943
Commissioned	27 Nov 1943
End service	22 Sep 1973
History	Renamed Thomas J. Gary on 1 January 1945. Decommissioned 7 March 1947. Reclassified as DER-326 on 1 November 1956. Recommissioned 2 August 1957. Decommissioned 22 September 1973. Stricken 30 September 1973. Transferred to Tunisia 22 October 1973 being renamed President Bourguiba, later renamed Indakh.

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	Commander	From	To
1	William Henry Harrison, USNR	27 Nov 1943	mid 1944
2	Lt. Cmdr. Robert McCormick Ayer, USNR	mid 1944	Jun 1945
3	Richard H. Smith, USNR	Jun 1945

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