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Photo # NH 73273:  USS Burrows at anchor, circa 1945-1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Burrows (DE-105), 1943-1950

USS Burrows, a 1240-ton Cannon (DET) class escort ship, was built at Wilmington, Delaware. Commissioned in mid-December 1943, she spent the next two months shaking down and serving on training duty. In late February 1944 the new ship began convoy escort service and during the rest of World War II crossed the Atlantic sixteen times, shepherding shipping to and from the British Isles, France and North Africa.

In June 1945, with Germany defeated, Burrows was sent to the Pacific to join the war against Japan. She reached the Marshall Islands in August, shortly before the fighting ended, but continued westwards to participate in occupation activities. This work mainly involved escorting ships between the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan, but also included transportation of Japanese troops who had surrendered some three months after the war's end. Burrows returned to the United States in February 1946, decommissioned in June and was laid up at Green Cove Springs, Florida. She was transferred to the Netherlands in June 1950. Renamed Van Amstel, she served in the Dutch Navy until sold for scrapping in 1968.

This page features the only view we have concerning USS Burrows (DE-105).


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Photo #: NH 73273

USS Burrows
(DE-105)

At anchor, circa 1945-1946.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Burrows (DE-105). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-324917
    USS Burrows (DE-105) underway in the vicinity of New York City, 8 June 1945. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station, New York.
    Starboard bow (rather toward the side) aerial view. The ship is painted dark overall (probably in Camouflage Measure 21).

  • Photo #: 80-G-324919
    As 80-G-324917, but port quarter aerial view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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