destroyer escort
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of destroyer escort
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Mr. Cosgrove served in the Navy for four years during World War II, first in Washington and later on a destroyer escort in the Pacific.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2016
Built between 2009 and 2012, the destroyer escort is MacDonald’s fourth full-scale model.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2014
He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and entered Yale, but left to serve in the Navy on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2013
He served aboard a Navy destroyer escort during World War II, married and raised three children, and finished out his engineering career as an executive at a corrugated-box company in Rochester.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2010
Distant, obscure, and blurred formations sharpen suddenly to detail and show our destroyer escort as almost suspended in mirage, floating in air.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
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