USS Strickland (DE-333)

USS Strickland (DE-333) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort commissioned by the United States Navy in 1944. During World War II, she served primarily in the Atlantic, escorting convoys and conducting anti-submarine patrols to protect Allied shipping from German U-boats. After the war, Strickland operated in the Pacific, supporting occupation forces in Japan before being decommissioned in 1947. Reactivated during the Korean War, she served as a radar picket ship before her final decommissioning in 1960.