USS Bristol (DD-453) escorted Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean convoys. She supported the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Bristol was sunk off the coast of Algeria by U-371 on 13 October 1943. Fifty-two crewmembers were killed. U-
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