High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Weiss (DE-378), was John C. Butler-class destroyer escort proposed for constyruction during World War II but never completed. Weiss was named after United States Marine Corps sergeant Carl Walter Weiss, who was killed in action during a battle on 1 November 1942 with Japanese forces near the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal, when he charged an enemy machine gun position and destroyed it with a hand grenade. For "his great personal valor, aggressiveness and fine spirit of self sacrifice," Sergeant Weiss was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.

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