Hull Number: DE-538
Launch Date: 12/07/1943
Commissioned Date: 06/10/1945
Decommissioned Date: 02/25/1958
Call Sign: NTOO
Class: JOHN C. BUTLER
JOHN C. BUTLER Class
Namesake: CARL AUGUST OSBERG
CARL AUGUST OSBERG
Wikipedia (as of 2024)
Carl August Osberg was born on 13 April 1920 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He attended Manchester Central High School, where he played football. In his free time he observed bi-planes at Grenier Field, site of today’s Manchester–Boston Regional Airport. He quit college at Cornell to join the Navy reserves and was trained at Naval Air Station Squantum in Massachusetts. He was one of the twelve pilots of Torpedo Squadron 3 attached to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. During the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942, his squadron attacked Imperial Japanese Navy ships and he went missing. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.[1][2]
Disposition:
Stricken 1 August 1972, and, on 5 February 1974 she was sold for scrapping.