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n. (context US military nautical historical English) (destroyer escort English)
Usage examples of "destroyer escorts".
To listen to foreign naval signals, the Navy had to stick its analysts in awkward, antenna-covered mobile vans placed aboard destroyers and destroyer escorts.
Black could only hope that none of their destroyer escorts would be run down by the unexpected course correction.
Steaming through the watery expanse separating the mainland and the Isle of Wight, Leopoldville and her convoy met the destroyer escorts.
To protect the defenseless baby flattops, there were nine moderate-sized destroyers and twelve sharply undersized craft called destroyer escorts, whose name correctly defined their duties.
That left Ogden with two Adams-class missile-destroyer escorts, a sensible precaution after what had so recently happened to USS Pueblo off the Korean coast.
The destroyer escorts were perhaps a half-mile away when the engine quit.
We've already knocked out one of their cruisers and two destroyers, and Squadron ' B is taking on the second cruiser and its destroyer escorts now!
When the three Crowe-class amphibious battlecruisers and their destroyer escorts converged on Diamunde, they would meet the largest interstellar amphibious invasion fleet ever assembled.
Dolohov's Red Banner Fleet units were putting to sea from ice-free Murmansk - troop-carriers and their submarine and destroyer escorts.