File:USS Menges (DE-320) is repaired with stern of USS Holder (DE-401) in 1944.jpg

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The forward section of the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Menges (DE-320) is merged with the stern of USS Holder (DE-401) the New York Naval Shipyard, in August 1944.

On 3 May 1944, Menges was hit at 0118 hours by an G7es acoustic torpedo from the German submarine U-371. The explosion was so violent that the aft third of the ship was destroyed, killing 31 men and wounding 25. Menges was towed to Bougie, Algeria to disembark her dead and wounded. On 23 June, the temporarily repaired Menges got underway from Oran, under tow by USS Carib (AT-82), bound for New York (USA), and arrived 22 July. From 14 to 31 August the stern of USS Holder, whose forward two thirds had been blown away by a aerial torpedo in the Mediterranean Sea on 11 April, was welded to the remaining two thirds of Menges.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine October 1957, p. 3.
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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