Title: History of USS Major (DE-796)

Identifier: 0564-004-b1-fa   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35954)

Description: A history of the USS Major (DE-796) provided by the Office of Naval Records and History, Ship's Histories section. Included are details of its shakedown cruise in the Carribean and Casco Bay, Maine; its use as a convoy escort to Tunisia, Algeria, and Plymouth, England (1944); the role of the ship in patrolling and running escorts to Leyte and Hollandia in the Philippine Sea frontier; and its involvement in the sea rescue of U.S. Army guerrilla leader, Lt. Hermongilde Acosta (1945). Also mentioned is participation in a convoy to Okinawa (1945) and the use of a high frequency direction finder to direct the USS Knox to a downed pilot (1945).