Raymond W. DeVore enlisted 3-22-43 and enter service 3-29-43 he serve till 12-15-45 for 2 years, 6 months, 9 days. He had work at the Hoosier Ordnance Plant at Jeffersonville, Indiana 2-43 to 3-43. Serve on the USS Fogg out of Miami, Florida, and the USS Bedford Victory terminating his duty at Treasure Isle, California with a Honorable Discharge.

His ship the U.S.S. Fogg, DE 57 Fogg (DE-57) was launched 20 March 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Hingham, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. Adelbert W. Fogg, mother of Lieutenant (junior grade) Fogg; and commissioned 7 July 1943, Lieutenant Commander Charles F. Adams, Jr., USNR, in command. She was reclassified DER-57 on 18 March 1949. Fogg's first cruise on convoy duty began with her departure from New York 13 October 1943. She escorted unladen tankers to Aruba and Curacao in the Netherlands West Indies, crossed to Algiers guarding loaded tankers, then returned by way of Curacao and Trinidad to New York 4 December 1943. Between 26 December 1943 and 20 August 1944, she made six escort voyages from New York to Londonderry and Lisahally, North Ireland, guarding the flow of men and material which made possible the invasion of Europe and the push across the continent which followed. The escort put to sea once more from New York 12 September 1944, to escort a convoy through the English Channel to Cherbourg, France, then called at Portsmouth, England, before returning to New York 9 October for a brief overhaul. After special training at Charleston, she sailed 6 November to escort a slow towing convoy to England and back. Homeward bound, on 20 December, one of the LSTs in the convoy was torpedoed, and as Fogg began to search for the submarine, she, too, was torpedoed. Four of her men were killed and two wounded, and the ship badly damaged. For two days the crew fought to save their ship, but when on 22 December the stern sheared off, all but a skeleton crew were taken off. These men restored buoyancy, and Fogg reached the Azores in tow the next day. A first attempt to tow her back to the United States failed when bad weather tore away the temporary bulkheads replacing the stern, but she at last arrived at Boston for repairs 9 March 1945. After refresher training, Fogg sailed out of Norfolk between 2 and 30 June 1945, acting as target ship in battle problems with a cruiser, serving as plane guard for a carrier, and training men in combat information center duty. On 1 July, she entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for conversion to a radar picket, which was completed 2 October. Duty along the east coast and in the Caribbean, primarily in antisubmarine warfare development and as combat information center school ship, continued until 26 July 1947, when she arrived at Charleston, S.C. There Fogg was decommissioned and placed in reserve 27 October 1947.

The ship and crew earned the following medals: Combat Action Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal.

His other ship the U.S.S. Bedford Vicory, AK-231 was an ammunition cargo ship. Bedford Victory (AK-231) was launched 30 September 1944 by Permanente Metals Co., Yard No. 1, Richmond, Calif., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. R. A. Kremp; transferred to the Navy 11 November 1944; and commissioned the same day, Lieutenant Commander D. A. Durrant, USNR, in command. Bedford Victory arrived at Pearl Harbor 21 December 1944. She operated out of Saipan and In the Philippines providing logistic support to the fleet until 7 November 1945, including one voyage to Okinawa where she unloaded supplies for the troops ashore (25 April-7 June 1945). She returned to Seattle, Wash., 19 November 1945; was decommissioned at San Francisco 26 March 1946; and returned to the Maritime Commission three days later.

The ship and crew earned the following medals: Combat Action Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic & Pacific Campaign Medal w/ Battle Star, Philippines Liberation Medal and World War II Victory Medal.

Raymond Devore (1924)