BRONSTEIN DE 189

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Cannon Class Destroyer Escort Keel Laid 26 August 1943 - Launched 14 November 1943 USS BRONSTEIN DE-189 Commissioned 13 December 1943 - Decommissioned 5 November 1945 Stricken 14 May 1952 ROU ARTIGAS DE-2 (Uruguayan Naval Service) Sold to Uruguay 3 May 1952 and renamed Stricken 1988 and broken up

Naval Covers

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1. USS Bronstein DE-189 Covers Page 1     (1944-1945)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1945-10-27

Navy Day, named cancels are reintroduced.

 

Locy Type 2z

1944-11-29

Censored, WWII use

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Locy Type P [2t(n+u) R removed] USS Corry DD-817

1966-05-11

ROU ARTIGAS DE-2. Welcome to Norfolk, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Other Information

USS BRONSTEIN earned the Combat Action Ribbon, the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon, the American Campaign Medal, the European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 3 Battle stars and the WWII Victory Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Ben Richard Bronstein USN (April 14 1915 - February 28 1942)
Bronstein graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1936, then from Tufts College Medical School at Boston in 1940. Dr. Bronstein was appointed Assistant Surgeon, Medical Corps with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade) on October 4 1941. He reported to the Portsmouth (NH) Navy Yard on November 6; then moved on to Casco Bay ME to await transportation to Argentia, Newfoundland, to meet USS JACOB JONES DD-130. He reported on board the destroyer late in December. While serving as a roving antisubmarine patrol ship off the Delaware Capes on February 27 1942, JACOB JONES spotted the burning wreckage of the torpedoed tanker R.P. RESOR. The destroyer searched the area around the wreckage for survivors and then headed south on patrol. At dawn on February 28, the undetected German submarine U-578 sank JACOB JONES with at least two torpedoes. Lt.(jg.) Bronstein was lost with the ship

 

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