USS Haverfield (DE-393) was an built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Namesake James Wallace Haverfield was born 11 April 1917 in Urichsville, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. After receiving his B.A. degree in 1939, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman on 11 September 1940. He accepted an appointment as a midshipman on 16 March 1941 and after completing V-7 Midshipman Program training at Northwestern University, was commissioned as an Ensign in the unrestricted line of the U.S. Naval Reserve on 12 June 1941. He then reported to his first assignment aboard the battleship at Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 28 June 1941. He was killed aboard the Arizona during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Construction and commissioning She was launched 30 August 1943 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. George Tracy (Bessie) Haverfield, mother of Ensign Haverfield; and commissioned 29 November. World War II North Atlantic operations After shakedown in the Caribbean, Haverfield joined the escort aircraft carrier 's hunter-killer (HUK) group in patrolling Atlantic convoy lanes in search of German U-boats. Departing Norfolk, Virginia, 26 February 1944, the hunter-killer group, aided by a Canadian corvette and British aircraft, sank the on 23 March. With some seven survivors of the U-boat aboard, Haverfield continued her patrol to Casablanca, where she reported to Commander Moroccan Sea Frontier and turned over the German prisoners 18 March. After returning to Norfolk, Haverfield sailed on her second offensive combat cruise with the Bogue HUK group on 5 May. Operating with another HUK group under the escort carrier , the Bogue force sank the , ex-, at on 13 May as the former German ship was heading for her new home in Japan. Sinking of the Block Island Reaching Casablanca 29 May, Haverfield was ordered out that same night to render emergency assistance to survivors of carrier Block Island, sunk by a German torpedo off the Canary Islands. Haverfield rescued one of six Block Island fighter pilots who had been aloft when the carrier sank, but a long search failed to locate the remaining five men. End-of-European-war activity After this, Haverfield continued