At the end of August, the destroyer escort steamed to Rota for preliminary surrender conferences, and then when to Truk for the official surrender there, on 2 September. In early February, she reported to Commander, Guam Patrol and Escort Unit, and for the remainder of the war, escorted vessels amongst the Marianas and to Okinawa, and conducted air-sea rescue missions and anti-submarine warfare patrols in the Marianas. A week later, Osmus was back in the Solomons- New Hebrides area, where she operated as an escort vessel until 10 November.įrom the Solomons, Osmus shifted her base of operations to Ulithi and through January 1945, performing escort assignments between the Western Carolines, Admiralties, and Palaus. The ships then sailed northwest to the Admiralties. On 18 June, she rendezvoused with TU 11.1A, joining CortDiv 39 at the same time. She arrived at Espiritu Santo on 1 June and after availability and further training, undertook her first escort mission, to Guadalcanal, on 13 June.
Service history World War II, 1944–1945 įollowing shakedown off Bermuda, Osmus departed the east coast, transited the Panama Canal, and sailed into the Pacific. Louisa Osmus, mother of Ensign Osmus and commissioned on 23 February 1944. The ship was laid down at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, on 17 August 1943, and launched on 4 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Research many years later indicated Ensign Osmus survived his plane's ditching but was captured, tortured and executed by the Japanese later that same day. USS Osmus (DE-701) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named for Wesley Frank Osmus, a Navy aviator posthumously awarded the Navy Cross after his TBD Devastator from USS Yorktown was shot down during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.