engaged in convoy escort duty, ASW patrols, and mail runs in the New Guinea and Philippine waters. She received her first battle star for convoy escort duty from Hollandia to Leyte Gulf 3 to 14 January 1945 in support of the Lingayen Gulf landing. During this mission, the convoy fought off Japanese kamikaze planes so that only one merchant ship was damaged. After the successful Lingayen Gulf landing, Leslie L. B. Knox continued convoy-escort and mail-run duties, earning two more battle stars for her work in the Manila Bay-Bicol Operation and the campaign to liberate the southern Philippine Islands. After V-J Day, she steamed to Okinawa, arriving 7 September 1945 for occupation duty and service along the coast of China. During this period the ship called at Jinsen, Korea, and Shanghai and Tsingtao, China. Postwar She departed 14 October for the United States, arriving San Diego 5 November. Leslie L. B. Knox was decommissioned on 15 June 1946, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Later she was berthed at Stockton, California. Leslie L. B. Knox received three battle stars for World War II service. She was scrapped in 1973. See also List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy References External links Photo gallery at Navsource.org Rudderow-class destroyer escorts 1944 ships