The smaller size means that a crew of only about 90 is required, about half the size of other destroyers and one-third the crew size of an Aegis-class warship. The switch to sleeker vessels was ...
Commissioned in early 1944, the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) was lost off Samar on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In For Crew and Country Pacific war historian ...