USS Roy O. Hale
1943 Edsall-class destroyer escort
USS Roy O. Hale (DE-336) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1957 to 1963. She was scrapped in 1975.
Namesake
Roy Orestus Hale Jr. was born on 10 May 1916 in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned ensign in the United States Navy on 2 June 1938. After a year at sea, Hale underwent aviation training at Pensacola, Florida, Miami, Florida, and San Diego, California, and on 21 June 1941, joined Scouting Squadron 2 on board USS Lexington. Promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) in October, he remained on board that carrier after the United States entered World War II.
He participated in the Pacific raids of February and March 1942 and flew his scout plane in the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7–8 May. Failing to return from that mission, Hale was presumed killed in action and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in aerial combat and his " ... courageous determination and aggressiveness ... attacking enemy aircraft in spite of fierce fighter opposition."
History
She was laid down on 13 September 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; launched 20 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
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