USS Acree ( DE - 167 ) USS " Acree " ( DE - 167 ) was a in the United States Navy . She was named for John White Acree , a Lt . ( jg ) serving aboard the . " Acree " died while leading a damage - control party on 26 October 1942 during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands . " Acree " was laid down on 30 November 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , Kearny , New Jersey ; launched on 9 May 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . John W . Acree , the widow of Lt . ( jg . ) Acree ; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 19 July 1943 , Lieutenant Commander William H . Siegmund in command . Service history . After shakedown off Bermuda and training out of Norfolk , Virginia , the destroyer escort sailed for the South Pacific on 28 September , transited the Panama Canal on 5 October , stopped briefly at the Galapagos Islands three days later , and steamed on independently to Bora Bora in the Society Islands , where she arrived on the 18th . After refueling , " Acree " rendezvoused with SS " Mormactern " on 25 October and escorted her to Nouméa , New Caledonia . As a member of Escort Division 11 , " Acree " carried out numerous convoy and anti - submarine patrol operations in the South Pacific during the next six months . Her stops included Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides ; Laotoka , Fiji Islands ; Guadalcanal ; Nouméa , New Caledonia ; and the Russell Islands . This routine was broken on 28 April 1944 when the ship joined the anti - submarine screen of Task Group ( TG ) 50 . 17 , which was formed to refuel Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher ' s Fast Carrier Task Force , TF 58 . She completed this assignment on 3 May , sailed back to Purvis Bay , and began antisubmarine patrol duty off that port . On 9 June , " Acree " became a member of TG 53 . 19 slated to take part in the invasion of the Marianas . She arrived off the southern end of Tinian Island on 7 July and provided illuminating and harassing fire on Tinian Town . The destroyer escort opened fire at 1905 and continued firing at 40 - minute intervals throughout the night . She moved to Saipan Harbor the next day and later joined the anti - submarine screen off Saipan . For the next four months , " Acree " carried out escort and patrol duties in the central Pacific . On 13 November , " Acree " departed Eniwetok bound for the United States . She stopped at Pearl Harbor on the 21st and arrived at San Francisco on 3 December 1944 and , the following day entered the United Engineering Co . , Ltd . , shipyard at Alameda , California , for overhaul . The destroyer escort got underway for sea trials on 31 January 1945 ; sailed for Hawaii on 4 February ; and , following her arrival at Pearl Harbor on the 10th , participated in training exercises north of the Hawaiian Islands in company with and . " Acree " returned to Eniwetok on 24 March and spent the remainder of the war escorting convoys and acting as a barrier patrol off Pacific islands such as Guam , Eniwetok , Ulithi , Saipan , and Kwajalein . Following Japan ' s surrender , the ship got underway from Kwajalein on 15 September , bound for home . After a one - day stop at Pearl Harbor , she resumed her eastward voyage and reached San Diego , California , on 28 September . On 6 October , she sailed for the east coast and , after transiting the Panama Canal , arrived at New York on 20 October to begin a pre - inactivation availability . On 29 November , the destroyer escort arrived at Green Cove Springs , Florida , where she was decommissioned on 1 April 1946 . " Acree " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1972 and sold on 19 July 1973 to the Boston Metals Co . , of Baltimore , Maryland , for scrapping . Awards . " Acree " earned five battle star s for her service in World War II .