Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive
Left ship's patch courtesy of Nick Tiberio, right from Mike Smolinski
USS Whitehurst (DE-634)
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - T - V - D
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Clover Hill"
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 - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 7 stars - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row: National Defense Service Medal w/star - Korean Service Medal w/ 3 stars - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Fourth Row: Philippine Liberation Medal - United Nations Korean Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service 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: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/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 Co., San Francisco CA on 21 March 1943
Launched 5 September 1943, Commissioned 19 November 1943
Decommissioned 27 November 1946, Recommissioned 1 September 1950
June-July 1957 Starred in the 20th Century-Fox movie "The Enemy Below"
Assigned to NRT, 13th Naval District at Seattle WA September 1957
Decommissioned 6 December 1958, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Out Of Service 12 July 1969, Stricken 12 July 1969.
Fate: Sunk as target 28 April 1971 by USS Trigger (SS-564)
