Hull Number: DE-393
Launch Date: 08/30/1943
Commissioned Date: 11/29/1943
Call Sign: NKKB
Voice Call Sign: DECANTER ECHO
Other Designations: DER-393
Class: EDSALL
EDSALL Class
Namesake: JAMES WALLACE HAVERFIELD
JAMES WALLACE HAVERFIELD
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, April 2016
James Wallace Haverfield was born 11 April 1917 in Urichsville, Ohio. After receiving his B.A. from Ohio State University in 1939, Haverfield enlisted in the Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman 11 September 1940. He accepted an appointment as a midshipman 16 March 1941 and after completing his training at Northwestern University, was commissioned Ensign 12 June 1941. Ensign Harverfield reported to the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor 28 June, and remained there. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, Ensign James Haverfield was one of 46 officers and 1,057 men of Arizona lost when the valiant ship was sunk by the enemy.