After USS Block Island (CVE-21) was sunk and USS Barr (DE-576) was damaged by U-549 in the mid-Atlantic, U-549 was in turn sunk by two of the CVE's escourts, USS Eugene E. Elmore(DE-686) and USS Ahrens (DE-575) on 29 May 1944. Eugene E. Elmore finis
Categories: World War II
 
 
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