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{{Short description|Buckley-class destroyer escort}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''Frybarger''
|Ship namesake=Raymond Frybarger, Jr.
|Ship ordered=1942
|Ship builder=[[Defoe Shipbuilding Company]], [[Bay City, Michigan]]
|Ship laid down=1943
|Ship launched=24 January 1944
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|Ship commissioned=18 May 1944
|Ship decommissioned=30 June 1947
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|Ship decommissioned=9 December 1954
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|Ship struck=1 December 1972
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|Ship reclassified=*DEC-705, 13 September 1950
*DE-705, 27 December 1957
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|Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 27 November 1973
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}}
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*359 tons fuel oil
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|Ship complement=15 officers, 198 men
|Ship armament=*3 × [[3"/50 caliber gun]]s
*1 × quad [[1.1"/75 caliber gun]]
*8 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm guns]]
*1 × triple [[American 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s
*1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] [[anti-submarine mortar]]
*8 × [[Depth charge#Delivery mechanisms|K-gun]] depth charge projectors
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'''USS ''Frybarger'' (DE/DEC-705)''' was a {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}} in service with the [[United States Navy]] from 1944 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1957. She was scrapped in 1973.

==History==
''Frybarger'' was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 25 January 1944 at the [[Defoe Shipbuilding Company]], in [[Bay City, Michigan]], sponsored by Miss Caroljean and Clarabelle Frybarger, both sisters of PFC Frybarger.  The ship was [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 18 May 1944.

===World War II, 1944&ndash;1945===
After two [[convoy]] escort voyages to [[Bizerte]] made between 25 July and 18 November 1944, ''Frybarger'' received new equipment and trained for [[Pacific]] duty.  She arrived at ''Manus'' on 23 January 1945, and began escort duty to and in the Philippines until 30 August.  Ports of call for her during this assignment included the [[Caroline Islands|Carolines]]; [[Lingayen Gulf]], [[Manila]], and [[Zamboanga City|Zamboanga]] in the [[Philippines]]; [[Jayapura|Hollandia]]; and on one voyage, [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]].

===Post-war activities, 1945&ndash;1946===
''Frybarger'' arrived at [[Buckner Bay]], Okinawa, on 3 September 1945 for duty escorting [[transport]]s carrying troops to occupation duty in [[Korea]] and [[China]] until sailing for home on 8 November.  She arrived at [[Boston]], Massachusetts, on 15 December, and at [[Green Cove Springs, Florida]], on 20 January 1946.  There she was decommissioned and placed in reserve on 30 June 1947.

===Control escort vessel, 1950&ndash;1954===
Equipped with additional communication gear during her reactivation, ''Frybarger'' was reclassified '''DEC-705''' on 13 September 1950 and recommissioned 6 October 1950 as a control escort vessel.  After training in the [[Caribbean]], she arrived at her home port, [[San Diego]], on 11 March 1951 which included service as vessel for [[landing ship]]s and craft in amphibious exercises, and training for students of the [[Fleet Sonar School]], San Diego.

Between 6 March and 2 October 1952, ''Frybarger'' made a tour of duty with the [[United States Seventh Fleet|7th Fleet]] in the [[Far East]], serving on barrier patrol off Okinawa, in amphibious exercises off [[Japan]], training with [[submarine]]s, and visiting Japanese ports.  A second Far Eastern deployment between 1 September 1953 and 5 June 1954 found ''Frybarger'' concentrating on amphibious exercises with marines on the beaches of Okinawa; [[Inchon]], [[Korea]]; [[Chigasaki, Kanagawa|Chigasaki]], [[Japan]]; and in the [[Bonins]].

===Decommissioning and fate===
''Frybarger'' was [[ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] for a second time at San Diego on 9 December 1954, and placed in reserve. She was reclassified back to '''DE-705''' on 27 December 1957. She was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 December 1972, sold on 27 November 1973, and broken up for scrap.

==Namesake==
Raymond Frybarger Jr. was born on 22 April 1923 in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. He enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps Reserve]] on 22 April 1940. [[Private First Class]] Frybarger was killed in action on [[Guadalcanal]] during the [[Battle of Edson's Ridge]]. For his heroism in exposing himself to enemy fire in an attack on [[Henderson Field (Guadalcanal)|Henderson Field]] and maintaining effective rifle fire until killed, he was posthumously awarded the [[Navy Cross (United States)|Navy Cross]].

== References ==
{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/frybarger.html}}

== External links == 
{{Commons category|USS Frybarger (DE-705)}}
* {{navsource|06/705|USS Frybarger}}
* [http://ussfrybarger.org USS Frybarger.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922211632/http://ussfrybarger.org/ |date=22 September 2017 }}

{{Buckley class destroyer escort}}

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[[Category:Buckley-class destroyer escorts]]
[[Category:Ships built in Bay City, Michigan]]
[[Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States]]
[[Category:1944 ships]]