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The USS CHOURRE IARV-lj was built by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Baltimore, Maryland, and was commissioned December 7, 1944, with Captain A. H. Bergerson, USN as the Commanding Officer. -The CHOURRE is named in honor of the late Lieutenant Commander Emile Chourre, USN. Lieutenant Commander Chourre was born in San Francisco, California, August 28, 1894. He enrolled in the U. S. Naval Reserve on December 14, 1917. After training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, and completing a tour of duty as a sea-plane pilot, he was given a confirmed commission as Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps, Class Five, on September 25, 1920, to rank from 1 October 1919. After various duty assignments in the pioneer field of naval aviation, he was commissioned as Lieutenant Uunior Grade in the Regular Navy, to rank from July 1, 1920, and later became one of the Navy's most outstanding authorities on Aeronautical engineering matters. He was killed in a plane crash at Scott Field, Illinois, January 26, 1938. During the war the USS CHOURRE served the fleet as a vessel having dual purpose both aircraft repair and supply, with additional facilities for quartering transient air per- sonnel. On February 14, 1945, the Chourre commenced her shakedown at Norfolk Virginia, and upon completion departed for the West Coast to join the units of the Pacific Fleet. The majority of the shipis stay was at Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines. She returned once to Guam for restocking. At the cessationbf hostilities, the Chourre joined the occupation forces in Tokyo Bay. She remained in the Pacific until May of 1946 before returning to the United States. On November 28 1938, she was placed out of commission by the Mare Island Shipyard and joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Stockton, California. On December 26, 1951 the Chief of Naval Operations ordered the activation of the Chourre. The Chourre was placed in commission Feburary 21, 1952, at the San Fran- cisco, Naval Shipyard, Captain F. F. Gill, USN, Commanding. ..'1..
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