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MS-21 8/19/43-8/26/43 San Francisco
MS-32   5/11/44-5/17/44 Manus
MS-11   1/9/45-1/12/45    Ulithi
MS-14   6/25/45-6/29/45 San Diego

On the morning of December 7, 1941, just four days from his 21st birthday John C. England volunteered to work in the ships radio room for a friend so that he might have more time with his family when they arrived. That morning the Japanese attacked Pear Harbor and the USS Oklahoma was one of their first targets.

Oklahoma was moored Battleship Row 7, outboard alongside Maryland. USS Oklahoma took 3 torpedo hits almost immediately after the first Japanese bombs fell. As she began to capsize, 2 more torpedoes struck home, and her men were strafed as they abandoned ship. Within 2O minutes after the attack began, she had swung over until halted by her masts touching bottom, her starboard side above water, and a part of her keel clear.

Ensign England survived the initial attack and escaped topside as the ship was capsizing. He remembered the men still in the radio room. He returned three times to the radio room, each time guiding a man to safety. He left to go back below decks for the fourth time and was never seen again. He was one of twenty officers and 395 enlisted men were killed on board USS Oklahoma that morning. Ensign England's gallant effort saved three, but cost him his life.

The record written by England is unsurpassed in the annals of antisubmarine warfare. In the last two weeks of May, 1944, England destroyed six Japanese submarines: I-16, RO-106, RO-104, RO-116, RO-108 and RO-105. She was award the Presidential Unit Citation.

Less than one year later, 9 May 1945, England was severely damaged by a Japanese kamikaze attack. The casualties were severe with 37 crewmembers lost. Read the names on the Roll of Honor

After a difficult 13,000 mile journey home, she entered the Navy Yard in Philadelphia with her devastated foward section, the crew lining the rails at attention and Old Glory snapping jauntily from her mast. Her charred bridge still showing the scoreboard painted on the bridge face announcing her Presidential Unit Citation pennant and symbols for the six Japanese submarines and three aircraft credited to her service.

England was decommissioned on 15 October 1945, but her name will never be erased from the history of naval warfare.

The USS Buckley ( DE ) Class

Ships by Hull Number

Alphabetical Listing

DE 51 Buckley
DE 53 Charles Lawrence
DE 54 Daniel T. Griffin
DE 56 Donnell
DE 57 Fogg
DE 59 Foss
DE 60 Gantner
DE 62 George W. Ingram
DE 63 Ira Jeffery
DE 65 Lee Fox
DE 66 Amesbury
DE 68 Bates
DE 69 Blessman
DE 70 Joseph E. Campbell
DE 153 Reuben James
DE 154 Sims
DE 155 Hopping
DE 156 Reeves
DE 157 Fechteler
DE 158 Chase
DE 159 Laning
DE 160 Loy
DE 161 Barber
DE 198 Lovelace
DE 199 Manning
DE 200 Neuendorf
DE 201 James E. Craig
DE 202 Eichenberger
DE 203 Thomason
DE 204 Jordan
DE 205 Newman
DE 206 Liddle
DE 207 Kephart
DE 208 Cofer
DE 209 Lloyd
DE 210 Otter
DE 211 Joseph C. Hubbard
DE 212 Hayter
DE 213 William T. Powell
DE 214 Scott
DE 215 Burke
DE 216 Enright
DE 217 Coolbaugh
DE 218 Darby
DE 219 J. Douglas Blackwood
DE 220 Francis M. Robinson
DE 221 Solar
DE 222 Fowler
DE 223 Spangenberg
DE 575 Ahrens
DE 576 Barr
DE 577 Alexander J. Luke
DE 578 Robert J. Paine
DE 633 Foreman
DE 634 Whitehurst
DE 635 England
DE 636 Witter
DE 637 Bowers
DE 638 Willmarth
DE 639 Glendreau
DE 640 Fieberling Information
DE 641 William C. Cole
DE 642 Paul G. Baker
DE 643 Damon M. Cummings
DE 644 Vammen History
DE 665 Jenks
DE 666 Durik
DE 667 Wiseman
DE 675 Weber
DE 676 Schmitt
DE 677 Frament
DE 678 Harmon
DE 679 Greenwood
DE 680 Loeser
DE 681 Gillette
DE 682 Underhill
DE 683 Henry R. Kenyon
DE 693 Bull
DE 694 Bunch
DE 695 Rich
DE 696 Spangler
DE 697 George
DE 698 Raby
DE 699 Marsh
DE 700 Currier
DE 701 Osmus
DE 702 Earl V. Johnson
DE 703 Holton
DE 704 Cronin
DE 705 Frybarger
DE 789 Tatum
DE 790 Borum
DE 791 Maloy
DE 792 Haines
DE 793 Runels
DE 794 Hollis
DE 795 Gunason
DE 796 Major
DE 797 Weeden
DE 798 Varian Information
DE 799 Scroggins
DE 800 Jack W. Wilke

Ahrens DE 575
Alexander J. Luke DE 577
Amesbury DE 66
Barber DE 161
Barr DE 576
Bates DE 68
Blessman DE 69
Borum DE 790
Bowers DE 637
Buckley DE 51
Bull DE 693
Bunch DE 694
Burke DE 215
Charles Lawrence DE 53
Chase DE 158
Cofer DE 208
Coolbaugh DE 217
Cronin DE 704
Currier DE 700
Damon M. Cummings DE 643
Daniel T. Griffin DE 54
Darby DE 218
Donnell DE 56
Durik DE 666
Earl V. Johnson DE 702
Eichenberger DE 202
England DE 635
Enright DE 216
Fechteler DE 157
Fieberling DE 640 Information
Fogg DE 57
Foreman DE 633
Foss DE 59
Fowler DE 222
Frament DE 677
Francis M. Robinson DE 220
Frybarger DE 705
Gantner DE 60
George DE 697
George W. Ingram DE 62
Gillette DE 681
Glendreau DE 639
Greenwood DE 679
Gunason DE 795
Haines DE 792
Harmon DE 678
Hayter DE 212
Henry R. Kenyon DE 683
Hollis DE 794
Holton DE 703
Hopping DE 155
Ira Jeffery DE 63
J. Douglas Blackwood DE 219
Jack W. Wilke DE 800
James E. Craig DE 201
Jenks DE 665
Jordan DE 204
Joseph C. Hubbard DE 211
Joseph E. Campbell DE 70
Kephart DE 207
Laning DE 159
Lee Fox DE 65
Liddle DE 206
Lloyd DE 209
Loeser DE 680
Lovelace DE 198
Loy DE 160
Major DE 796
Maloy DE 791
Manning DE 199
Marsh DE 699
Neuendorf DE 200
Newman DE 205
Osmus DE 701
Otter DE 210
Paul G. Baker DE 642
Raby DE 698
Reeves DE 156
Reuben James DE 153
Rich DE 695
Robert J. Paine DE 578
Runels DE 793
Schmitt DE 676
Scott DE 214
Scroggins DE 799
Sims DE 154
Solar DE 221
Spangenberg DE 223
Spangler DE 696
Tatum DE 789
Thomason DE 203
Underhill DE 682
Vammen DE 644 History
Varian DE 798 >Information
Weber DE 675
Weeden DE 797
Whitehurst DE 634
William C. Cole DE 641
William T. Powell DE 213
Willmarth DE 638
Wiseman DE 667
Witter DE 636