USS Cockrill (DE-398) was an Edsall-classdestroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending decades in reserve, she was sunk as a target in November 1974.
Dan Robertson Cockrill was born on 27 March 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was appointed Ensign on 18 May 1935. He reported for active duty 16 June 1941, and joined the destroyerUSS Meredith on 22 October 1941. He died 19 October 1942 as a result of injuries suffered 4 days earlier when Meredith was torpedoed.
From 11 April to 11 May 1945 Cockrill was on an antisubmarine patrol with the Bogue group. Taking station in a barrier of carrier groups in position from Greenland to the Carolinas against a large number of German submarines (U-boats), Cockrill participated on 24 April 1945 in an attack on U-546, which was forced to the surface and was scuttled by its crew.
Pacific Waredit
Cockrill sailed from New York 19 May for Charleston, South Carolina; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; the Panama Canal, and San Diego, California where she arrived on 14 July 1945. Two days later she cleared for Pearl Harbor; Hawaii, for training until 20 August 1945, when she sailed for Saipan, arriving 30 August 1945. Assigned to convoy escort duty, she operated from Saipan and Guam to Okinawa and Japanese ports in support of the occupation of Japan. She continued training based at Guam from 14 November 1945 to 11 January 1946, then departed Guam to call at San Pedro, California, before continuing to Boston, Massachusetts, where she arrived on 26 February 1946.
Decommissioning and fateedit
After coastwise operations, Cockrill reported to the Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida, where she was decommissioned on 21 June 1946. She never returned to active service. On 1 August 1973 she was struck from the Navy list and on 19 November 1974 she was sunk as target off Florida.
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