For info about day-in, day-out life aboard a destroyer escort that was a sister to this one, this in WWII, read Little Ship, Big War, the Saga of DE343 by its first lieutenant, Ed Stafford. It takes DE343, the William Warner Abercrombie*, from build and fit in Orange, Tx, to the Ping Line at Okinawa, to war's end, decommissioning, and eventual disposal, and is a howling good read.

Bob

* Pilot of a torpedo bomber with Torpedo Squadron 8, lost at Midway. Navy Cross, posthumous.