John Lortz

USS Newell (DE-332/DER-332) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort commissioned by the United States Navy in 1943. During World War II, she served primarily as a convoy escort in the Atlantic, protecting Allied shipping from German U-boats. After the war, Newell was decommissioned but later recommissioned and converted to a radar picket ship (DER-332) during the Cold War, serving in the Pacific as part of the early warning defense network. She was finally decommissioned in 1968, after a distinguished career spanning both World War II and Cold War service.