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<h3>Ship Name and Designation History</h3>
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during 
its lifetime.
The list is in chronological order.
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<ol>Cannon Class Destroyer Escort<br/>
Keel Laid May 17 1943 - Launched September 5 1943<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS HERZOG DE-178'''<br/>
Commissioned October 6 1943 - Decommissioned August 1 1944<br/><br/>
Stricken July 20 1953<br/><br/>
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<li>'''CT Ee'BENBE D-23''' (Brazilian Naval Service)<br/>
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<li>'''BEBERIBE''' (Brazilian Naval Service)<br/>
Loaned to Brazil August 1 1944 and renamed<br/>
Transferred outright to Brazil under MDAP June 30 1953<br/>
Ran aground February 1966<br/><br/>
Stricken 1968 and scrapped
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<!-- for the Brazilian ship name, navsource has Beberibe (Be-2), wikipedia has Beberibe (D-19),
     and www.history.navy.mil has Ee'benbe (D-23).
     https://www.zona-militar.com/foros/threads/us-navy-fotos-no-tan-conocidas.31341/page-475 has Ee'benbe (D-23) for USS Herzog (DE 178)
     https://uswarships.jounin.jp/de_cannon.htm says: 1944/8/1 She was lent to Brazil and renamed Beberibe (Ee'benbe?, Be 2) and commissioned 
         into the Brazilian Navy. 1953/6/30 She was transferred to Brazil. She later changed her ship type code to D 19.
     so who is right? for now I will go with just Beberibe and skip the hull designation
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<h3>Naval Covers</h3>
This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the 
ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for 
example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same 
ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). 
Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't 
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range for covers on that page.
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<li><!-- [[PAGE_NAME_Covers_Page_1 | --> Covers Page 1 <!-- ]] -->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1944)</li>
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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
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separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, 
the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one 
postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of 
earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an 
image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN 
THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
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>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the
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Postmark Type<br/>---<br/>Killer Bar Text
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Date From<br/>to<br/>Date To</th>
<th align="center" width="320">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark Image</th>
<th align="center" width="120">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Cover Image</th>
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Locy Type<br/>2z
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1944-05-21
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During USS HERZOG's 10-month US Navy career, she only had one type of postmark available. This is a piece of Official mail showing her only postmark.
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
HERZOG earned the following awards during her Naval career - American Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal.<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE''' - William Ralph Herzog was born in Troy, N.Y., 29 December 1909 and was commissioned Lieutenant, junior grade, USNR, 8 April 1942. Lieutenant Herzog was assigned as Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Guard detachment on board SS Pan New York. When his ship was torpedoed in the North Atlantic 29 October 1942, Herzog found his gun crew trapped amidships. He attempted to batter the door with his shoulder unsuccessfully, and after aiding the radio operator to escape through a porthole courageously returned to force the door by breaking the lock with his pistol. Herzog was again unable to free his men, and fell unconscious in the attempt. He was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism. {DANFS}
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