USS Weiss (DE-378)

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Weiss (DE-378), was named after Marine Sergeant Carl Walter Weiss, who was killed in action during a battle on 1 November with Japanese forces near Matanikau River, Guadalcanal, when he charged an enemy machine gun position and destroyed it with a hand grenade. For "his great personal valor, aggressiveness and fine spirit of self sacrifice," Sgt. Weiss was awarded the Navy Cross, posthumously.

Weiss, a John C. Butler class destroyer escort, was cancelled on 5 June 1944 before completion, and her materials were scrapped. The name Weiss however, was concurrently reassigned to a Rudderow class destroyer escort DE-719, which was re-designated to a Crosley class fast transport APD-135 on 17 July 1944, and launched on 17 February 1945 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan.

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• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.