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48k | Hubert Paul Chatelain was born to Oscar and Lucille Chatelain at Mansura, La. on 11 February 1917. He attended Our Lady of Victory elementary school in Mansura, then moved to
St.Michael's School in New Orleans. After graduation from Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, at age 18, he enlisted in the Navy on 04 July 1935. After completing boot camp at Norfolk, Va.,
he was chosen, from a class of 1200 sailors to be among five, who would be assigned special duties while stationed at Shanghai, China, Indo-China, Singapore and the Philippine Islands. Regular
promotions followed and he made Gunners Mate First Class in 1941. He was discharged from the Navy on 29 July 1941 while serving aboard USS Utah (AG 16). He re-enlisted on 06 August 1941 at the
Puget Sound Navy Yard and was transferred to USS South Dakota (BB 57). As a gunner's mate first class serving in South Dakota, Chatelain was assigned as the gun captain of a 40mm anti-aircraft gun mount. During the Battle of Santa Cruz on 26 October 1942, after fighting off a number of Japanese aircraft, Chatelain was severely injured by shrapnel from an exploding bomb. He later succumbed to his wounds, and at 2030 in the evening of 26 October was buried at sea. For his great bravery as captain of a 40mm gun mount during the battle, GM1 Hubert P. Chatelain was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal. There is a memorial marker for him at the St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Cemetery in Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. USS Chatelain (DE 149) (1943-1946) was the first ship to be named in his honor. (Photo from the The Daily Town Talk newspaper of Alexandria, La., Friday, 11 December 1942) |
Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Navsource DE/FF/LCS Archive Manager | |
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364k | 30 December 1943: Brooklyn, N.Y. - Shot during a yard period at the New York Navy Yard. (U.S. Navy Photo #F644C5346) |
Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa. | |
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84k | 02 April 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - USS Chatelain (DE 149) underway in the Atlantic prior to her assignment to Task Group 21.12 or Task Group 22.3. (Source: National Archive Photo; Courtesy of Task Group 22.3 Association, Captain Jerry Mason, USN [ret.]) |
Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash. | |
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326k | 08 May 1944: Brooklyn, N.Y. - Chatelain shown lying to off the New York Navy Yard. (U.S. Navy Photo #F644C7229) |
Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa. | |
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333k | 04 June 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - Salvage parties at work on U-505, as one of USS Guadalcanal's TBM Avenger aircraft circles overhead. In the
background is USS Chatelain (DE 149), whose depth charge attack forced the submarine's crew to surface and abandon their ship. (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-49168 from the United States National Archives) |
Bob Canchola | |
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62k | 04 June 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - USS Chatelain (DE 149) prepares to transfer POWs to USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) by motor whaleboat. (Source: National Archive Photo; Courtesy of Task Group 22.3 Association, Captain Jerry Mason, USN [ret.]) |
Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash. | |
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291k | undated / location unknown (Source: Ted Stone Photo. |
Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y. | |
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74k | 11 June 1974: the Dep't of Defense Bid List for the scrapping of DE's 149, 145, and 152 (Chatelain, Huse, and Peterson). | Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa. and Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y. | |
| Chatelain History |
| View the USS Chatelain (DE 149) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site. |
| View the official War History of USS Chatelain as submitted by the ship at war's end. |
| Chatelain's Commanding Officers Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves |
| Dates of Command | Commanding Officers |
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| 1.) 22 Sep. 1943 - 28 Apr. 1944 | Lcdr. James Louis Foley, USN (Comm. CO) (USNA '29) (Manteca, Cal.) |
| 2.) 28 Apr. 1944 - 01 Jul. 1945 | Lcdr. Dudley S. Knox, USNR |
| 3.) 01 Oct. 1945 - 02 Mar. 1946 | Lcdr. Seth Thomas Howard, USNR (prior enl. '41) (Canton, Ga.) |
| 4.) 02 Mar. 1946 - 30 Apr. 1946 | Lt.(jg) Robert Louis Bird, USNR (Bloomfield, Mich.) |
| 5.) 30 Apr. 1946 - 01 Jun. 1946 | Lt.(jg) Clyde Carlton McPherson (Decomm. CO) (Pulaski, Ark.) |
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