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USS Fogg (DE 57)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - D - R - B
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal
CLASS: Buckley      TYPE: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 15 / 198
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel Hingham, Hingham MA on 4 December 1942, Launched 20 March 1943
Commissioned 7 July 1943, Decommissioned 27 October 1947
Reclassified DER 57, 18 March 1949
Reclassified DE 57 28 October 1954
Stricken 1 April 1965
Fate: sold for scrapping 4 January 1966
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Fogg 63k Carleton Thayer Fogg (19 August 1917 - 1 February 1942) was born and raised in Lynn MA. He graduated from the North Yarmouth Academy, attended the University of Maine, and enlisted in the Naval Reserve on 6 October 1937. After taking flight training at Squantum MA and Pensacola FL, he was appointed ensign 1 January 1939. Fogg flew with scout - bomber squadrons in Saratoga (CV 3) and Wasp (CV 7) before joining Scouting Squadron Six in Enterprise (CV 6) in September 1939. Now a regular officer, Lieutenant (junior grade) Fogg was killed in action in the initial attack on Kwajalein, 1 February 1942. He was awarded the Air Medal posthumously for his gallant conduct in the face of heavy enemy opposition. Ann Dennis
Fogg 127k undated wartime image Sal DiMilla
Fogg 127k undated wartime image Everett Schrader
Fogg 151k 3 July 1943: Fogg moored to the outfitting dock at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Hingham MA Pieter Bakels
Wehl, The Netherlands
Fogg 151k Picture of Fogg, showing damage aft, after she was torpedoed by U-870 on 20 December 1944 near the Azore Islands. Everett Schrader
Fogg 113k photo showing damage Everett Schrader
Fogg 110k hull shoring being shown in port at Azores Everett Schrader
Fogg 144k undated, wartime image (my Father, Donald A. Johnson was a WWII Fogg crewmember. Sadly, he passed away in 1995.) Donald A. Johnson, Jr.
Fogg 81k Fogg crewmembers (my Father, Donald A. Johnson, is on the far left of the photo) Donald A. Johnson, Jr.
Fogg 83k autograph page from a 1945 USS Fogg Yearbook Donald A. Johnson, Jr.
Fogg 114k Fogg crewmembers (John Clisham, Kathryn's Father, is third from the left) Kathryn Clisham McClung
View the USS Fogg (DE 57), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Sal DiMilla
Address: 73 Farnum Street / N. Andover MA 01845-5604
Phone: (978) 687-7039
E-mail: DE57@juno.com
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