ACREE DE 167

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

USS ACREE DE-167
Commissioned July 19 1943 - Decommissioned April 1 1946

Struck from Naval Register July 1 1972
Sold July 19 1973 to Boston Metals Co. Baltimore MD. for scrap

Naval Covers

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Covers Page 1 (1943-45)

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

Post Office Established August 16 1943 - Disestablished January 30 1946

Locy Type
2z*

1943-10-30
to
1943-11-02

Mark from back of cover

Other Information

ACREE earned 5 Battle Stars (WWII)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 5 stars - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Named in Honor of Lt. (jg) John White Acree USNR (April 23 1918 - October 26 1942)
Acree enlisted in The Naval Reserve on August 9 1940. Following training which included service in battleship USS NEW YORK BB-34, Acree was appointed Midshipman, USNR, on December 16 1940. Upon successfully completing the course at The Naval Reserve Midshipman's School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Il., he was commissioned Ensign on March 14 1941, and assigned to USS ENTERPRISE CV-6.
Acree was promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade June 15 1942. Exactly one month later, ENTERPRISE headed for the South Pacific and the first major Allied offensive operations of the war in the Pacific, the invasion of the Solomon Islands. Planes from the carrier supported the marines who landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi and continued to help the leathernecks until Japanese dive bombers seriously damaged ENTERPRISE in the Battle of The Eastern Solomons on the afternoon of August 24. Rapid, skillful, and courageous damage control parties—one of which was led by Lt. (jg.) Acree, extinguished the fires, checked the flooding, and patched the ship sufficiently to enable her to make her way painfully back to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Back in full fighting trim by mid-October, the veteran carrier once more headed for the Southwestern Pacific. There, in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, she helped fight off a major Japanese effort to assist their troops on Guadalcanal. The cost of repelling this enemy thrust was great. Carrier USS HORNET CV-8 was sunk, and ENTERPRISE suffered three highly destructive bomb hits. Again, Acree led one of the damage control parties which saved his ship, but he perished in the effort.

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