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<h3>Ship Name and Designation History</h3>
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during
its lifetime.
The list is in chronological order.
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<ol>Evarts Class Type GMT Destroyer Escort<br/>
Ordered for Great Britain as BDE-44<br/>
Retained by U.S. Navy<br/>
Keel Laid January 12 1943 - Launched August 1 1943<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS DONALDSON DE-44'''<br/>
Commissioned December 1 1943 - Decommissioned December 5 1945<br/><br/>
Stricken December 19 1945<br/>
Sold July 2 1946 for scrap
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<h3>Naval Covers</h3>
This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the
ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for
example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same
ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner).
Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't
take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date
range for covers on that page.
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<li>[[DONALDSON DE-44_Covers_Page_1 | Covers Page 1 ]]     (1944)</li>
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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a
separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set,
the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one
postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of
earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an
image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN
THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
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>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the
existing example.



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Postmark Type<br/>---<br/>Killer Bar Text
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Date From<br/>to<br/>Date To</th>
<th align="center" width="320">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark Image</th>
<th align="center" width="120">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Cover Image</th>
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Locy Type<br/>2z
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1944-12-26
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1944-12-26
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[[Image:JonBurdett donaldson de44 19441226 pm.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]
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[[Image:JonBurdett donaldson de44 19441226.jpg|thumb|center|100px]]
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Censored wartime (WWII) use


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<h3>Other Information</h3>
Earned 7 Battle Stars (WWII)<br/><br/>
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...<br/>American Campaign Medal<br/>Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/7 stars<br/>WWII Victory Medal<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE''' - Trose Emmett Donaldson USNR (June 19 1914 - April 9 1942)<br/>
Donaldson was appointed a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Naval Reserve from the Merchant Marine November 25 1940. He served in [[SEPULGA AO 20|USS SEPULGA AO-20]] and in [[OTUS AS 20|USS OTUS AS-20]] from March 25 1941. Lieutenant Donaldson was awarded The Navy Cross for his heroism in December 1941 at Cavite, Philippine Islands, when he worked tirelessly to evacuate ships and wounded and to fight fires during Japanese air raids. He was killed in action while commanding an Army Tug April 9 1942 and was posthumously awarded The Distinguished Service Cross by the War Department



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