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USS Bowers (DE-637)



USS Bowers (DE-637/APD-40), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Robert K. Bowers (1915-1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.



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