High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Borum (DE-790) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named in honor of Lieutenant (junior grade) John R. Borum (1907–1943). Borum was launched on 14 August 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. W. H. Ferguson, wife of Commander Ferguson; and commissioned on 30 November 1943, Lieutenant Commander J. K. Davis, USNR, in command. Borum spent her entire World War II service in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Until March 1944 she served as an escort vessel along the east coast and in the Caribbean, as well as a training vessel in Chesapeake Bay. She departed New York 8 March 1944 for the British Isles to train for the coming invasion of Europe and to escort convoys between British ports. From 6 June to 22 June 1944 she screened the convoys carrying troops and supplies from Britain to the Normandy beachhead.

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