1950'S RED BORDER COLOR SLIDE USS JOYCE DE-317 US NAVY WWII DESTROYER ESCORT

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HERE IS A RED BORDER KODAK SLIDE OF THE US NAVY DE-317. THIS LOOKS TO BE AFTER SHE WAS RECOMMISSIONED AS A RADAR PICKET SHIP FOR SERVICE DURING THE KOREAN WAR.  HERE IS A LITTLE INFO ON HER SERVICE DURING WWII:
Joyce
detected a submarine by sonar at 0950 and pressed home an attack. She dropped a deadly pattern of 13 depth charges which forced
u-550
to the surface, bow first, some 2,000 yards to her stern. A screening escort,
USS Gandy
, opened fire and rammed the after section of the U-boat.
Joyce
, Gandy, and
Peterson
shelled the submarine, silenced her deck guns and forced the hapless
U-550
to surrender.
Joyce
ordered the Germans to abandon ship, but before a boarding party could seize the captured prize, the Germans scuttled her. Only 40 minutes after
Joyce
had detected her, she plunged stern first beneath the waves.
Joyce
rescued and took prisoner 13 survivors, including the U-boat's skipper, escorted the convoy safely to Derry 26 April, and returned in convoy to the United States where she arrived New York 12 May. During the next year
Joyce
conducted eight more escort voyages for convoys bound from New York to Great Britain; she returned to New York from her last convoy run 13 May 1945.  AFTER HER SERVICE IN WWII SHE SERVED IN KOREA AND WAS DECOMMISSIONED IN 1960 AND SOLD FOR SCRAPING IN 1973. YOU CAN SEE HER HULL NUMBER IN THE SLIDE ALONG WITH SAILORS ON THE DECK. SLIDE IS A LITTLE DUSTY FROM STORAGE.