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USS Austin (DE-15)
USS Austin (DE-15), was named for Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin (1905-1941) who was killed in action on board USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by enemy Japanese forces on 7 December 1941 and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
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