Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Ahrens (DE-575), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Private Edward H. Ahrens (1919-1942), who was killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal on 8 August 1942. He was posthumously awarded a Navy Cross. Ahrens was laid down on 5 November 1943 at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; launched on 21 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Marie Ahrens, the mother of Private First Class Ahrens; and commissioned on 12 February 1944, Lieutenant Commander Morgan H. Hains in command.