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Photo # NH 82337-KN:  USS Huse in harbor, circa the 1950s

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Huse (DE-145), 1943-1974

USS Huse, a 1200-ton Edsall class escort ship, was built at Orange, Texas. She was commissioned in late August 1943 and spent most of the rest of World War II on convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic. While operating with the escort carrier Croatan's hunter-killer group, she helped sink the German submarines U-856 and U-488 in April 1944 and U-490 in June. In early August 1945, with the European war over for nearly three months, Huse went to the Pacific, where she was preparing for combat against Japan when that nation surrendered. She soon returned to the Atlantic and was decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Florida, in March 1946.

When the Korean War crisis generated great expansion of active Naval forces, Huse was brought back into service. She recommissioned in August 1951 and was then employed on anti-submarine operational and training service in the Atlantic and Caribbean. She also made a training cruise to northern Europe in mid-1955 and another voyage to that area in 1957 to participate in NATO exercises. Huse became a Naval Reserve Training ship in March 1960, mainly stationed at New Orleans, Louisiana. During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis she participated in quarantine operations. USS Huse was decommissioned for the last time in June 1965. She was part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1973, and was sold for scrapping in June 1974.

USS Huse was named in honor of Vice Admiral Harry McL. P. Huse, (1858-1942), whose long service included a post-World War I tour as Commander U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Huse (DE-145).


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Photo #: 80-G-350736

USS Huse (DE-145)


Operating with an escort carrier (CVE) in the Atlantic area, 12 December 1944.
Photographed by PHom3. Joseph W. Lehan.
Huse's port side is painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 3d(gx).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 82337-KN (color)

USS Huse (DD-145)

Photographed in harbor, circa the 1950s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 65853-KN (Color)

Insignia: USS Huse (DE-145)

Artwork probably sent by the ship during the later 1950s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 580 x 675 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 75788-KN (Color)

USS Huse (DE-145)

Plaque featuring the ship's insignia.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 101KB; 615 x 765 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Huse (DE-145). 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-1032235
    USS Huse (DE-145) underway, during World War II.
    Starboard broadside surface view, showing the ship painted in overall dark camouflage.

  • Photo #: 80-G-432913
    USS Huse (DE-145) recommissioning from the Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, 3 August 1951.
    Port bow (rather tight on the bow) surface view, pierside, with the ship's crew standing in formation on the foredeck and superstructure. Photographed from the pier, with the lower five feet or so of her hull hidden by pier structure.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1028950
    USS Huse (DE-145) maneuvering at sea with two other escort ships, August 1957.
    Port broadside high aerial view, with Huse in the foreground (but moderately distant) turning to starboard. The other two ships are beyond her, also turning in formation.

    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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