High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bangust (DE- 739) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She returned to the States at war`s end with a near-record setting number of eleven battle stars. (Riddle (DE-185) earned the highest number for destroyer escorts: twelve.)