USS Price ( DE - 332 ) USS " Price " ( DE - 332 ) was an built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . Post - war she was assigned additional duties , including those of a radar picket ship . She was named in honor of Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Edward Max Price who was killed in action in the Battle of the Coral Sea 8 May 1942 . She was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corp . , Orange , Texas , 24 August 1943 ; launched 30 October 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . Ray P . Reynolds ; and commissioned 12 January 1944 , Lt . Comdr . J . W . Higgins , Jr . , USNR , in command . World War II North Atlantic operations . After shakedown off Bermuda , " Price " departed Norfolk , Virginia , on convoy escort duty 23 March . On the night of 11 April German planes attacked in force , leaving dead in the water from a torpedo hit . " Price " shot down one plane , then escorted Holder , towed by rescue tug , into Algiers , before continuing on to Bizerte , Tunisia . She then escorted a return convoy to the United States , subsequently escorting two more convoys to Bizerte . On 28 September , she was detached from task force TF 65 , and with the rest of Escort Division 58 , was assigned to task group TG 21 . 7 and duty escorting vital convoys across the stormy North Atlantic . By 29 May 1945 she had escorted five convoys across the Atlantic and back . Transferred to the Pacific Fleet . With the end of European hostilities she was transferred to the Pacific and arrived Pearl Harbor 27 July . On 31 August she got underway for Eniwetok as plane guard and escort for . She subsequently put into Ulithi , Guam , and Okinawa . On 6 December she departed Guam for Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima where she established the military occupation of the Bonin and Volcano Islands . She departed Chichi Jima 9 January 1946 on a " Magic Carpet " run to the United States . Embarking veterans at Iwo Jima , Guam , and Pearl Harbor , she carried them to San Pedro , California , then sailed for the East Coast . She reached Boston , Massachusetts , 21 February , and in late March headed south to Green Cove Springs , Florida . Decommissioned 16 May 1947 , she remained there , a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until reactivated in 1955 . Converted to radar picket ship . Converted to a radar picket escort on her reactivation , she was redesignated DER – 332 , 21 October 1955 . " Price " recommissioned at New York 1 August 1956 and reported for duty with CortRon 18 at Newport , Rhode Island , 11 September . For the next three and a half years she patrolled the Atlantic Barrier from north of Newfoundland , and south from the English Channel to the Azores . This duty was interrupted by a schedule of training cruises to waters off Cuba , Bermuda , and , the Virginia Capes and in December 1959 by SAR duty for President Dwight D . Eisenhower ’ s flight home from Paris . Final decommissioning . She was placed in commission in reserve at Orange , Texas , 1 April 1960 and was decommissioned there 30 June 1960 . She remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy List on 1 August 1974 . She was sold for scrapping 12 March 1975 . Awards . " Price " received one battle star for World War II service .