USS Enright (DE-216)

USS Enright (DE-216)

USS Enright (DE-216/APD-66), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Robert Paul Francis Enright (1916-1942), who was killed in action while serving aboard the destroyer Hammann (DD-412) during the Battle of Midway on 6 June 1942.

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