USS Curtis W. Howard (DE-752) was a United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

  proposed during World War II

World War II

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 but never completed.

DE-752 was laid down by the Western Pipe and Steel Company

Western Pipe and Steel Company

The Western Pipe and Steel Company was an American manufacturing company that is best remembered today for its construction of ships for the Maritime Commission in World War II. It also built ships for the U.S...

 at San Pedro, California

California

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, on 18 August 1943 and named USS Curtis W. Howard (DE-752) on 3 September 1943. She was launched

Ship naming and launching

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 on 26 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Prudence W. Wohleb, the mother

Mother

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 of the ships namesake, Lieutenant, junior grade

Lieutenant, Junior Grade

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, Curtis W. Howard

Curtis W. Howard

Curtis W. Howard was a United States Navy officer who received the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in combat during World War II.-Naval career:...

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Before Curtis W. Howard could be completed, her construction was suspended on 6 June 1944 and cancelled on 1 September 1944. The incomplete ship was scrapped.