USS Burrows (DE-105) - Her Last Eastbound Convoy

Her Last Eastbound Convoy

Burrows departed New York on 16 April with her eighth and last eastbound convoy. The crossing was easy; and — after dropping one part of the convoy in Weymouth, England, and delivering the rest to Le Havre, France — Burrows returned to Southampton to prepare for her return voyage. On 8 May, while she transited the Atlantic, hostilities with Germany ended. During her 16 transatlantic trips, Burrows had escorted over 500 ships without having one of her convoys suffer a single loss from enemy action.