Allied Warships

USS Burke (DE 215)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 215
Built by	Philadelphia Navy Yard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered	8 Jun 1942
Laid down	1 Jan 1943
Launched	3 Apr 1943
Commissioned	20 Jul 1943
End service	22 Jun 1949
History	Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-65 on 24 January 1945. Decommissioned 22 June 1949. Stricken 1 June 1968. Transferred to Colombia 12 August 1968 being renamed Almirante Brion. Almirante Brion was stricken and scrapped in 1974.

Commands listed for USS Burke (DE 215)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Edwin Knapp Winn, USNR	20 Aug 1943	16 Jan 1944
2	Lt. William Lawrence Dommerich, USNR	16 Jan 1944	Mar 1945
3	Robert Emil Newmann, USN	Mar 1945	late 1946

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Notable events involving Burke include:

16 Nov 1943
HMS H 32 (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Folkestone (Cdr.(Retd.) J.G.C. Gibson, OBE, RN), USS Scott, USS Weber and USS Burke. (1)

17 Nov 1943
HMS H 33 (Lt. D.G. Kent, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Scott, USS Weber, USS Burke and aircraft. (2)

16 Dec 1944
USS Bugara (Cdr. A.F. Schade, USN) conducted exercises in Long Island Sound together with USS Burke (Lt.Cdr. W.L. Dommerich, USNR), USS Richey (Cdr. J.H Forney, USCG), USS Decatur (Lt. B.B. Kirkland, USNR) and USS Tigrone (Cdr. H. Cassedy, USN).

17 Dec 1944
USS Bugara (Cdr. A.F. Schade, USN) conducted exercises in Long Island Sound together with USS Burke (Lt.Cdr. W.L. Dommerich, USNR), USS Richey (Cdr. J.H Forney, USCG), USS Decatur (Lt. B.B. Kirkland, USNR) and USS Tigrone (Cdr. H. Cassedy, USN).

31 Dec 1944
HrMs O 21 (Lt. F.J. Kroessen, RNN) conducted attack exercises off New London, Connecticut, U.S.A. during which USS Burke (Lt.Cdr. W.L. Dommerich, USNR) acted as target. (3)

9 Jan 1945
HrMs O 21 (Lt. F.J. Kroessen, RNN) conducted attack exercises off New London, Connecticut, U.S.A. during which USS Burke (Lt.Cdr. W.L. Dommerich, USNR) acted as target.

During the night of 9/10 Janaury 1945 she remained out for night exercises. (3)

15 Jan 1945
USS Bumper (Cdr. J.W. Williams, Jr., USN) conducted exercises in Long Island Sound together with USS Enright (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Bradley, Jr., USNR) and USS Burke (Lt.Cdr. W.L. Dommerich, USNR).