High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Oswald (DE-767) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was named in honor of Harvey Emerson Oswald, who was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for his prompt and courageous manning of a .50 caliber PBY airplane machine gun during the Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia, on 19 February 1942. Oswald was laid down on 1 April 1943 at the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, Florida; launched on 25 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Zola F. Oswald, mother of Harvey E. Oswald, MM2/c; and commissioned on 12 June 1944, Lt. Edward L. Patton, USNR, in command.

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