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{{Short description|Rudderow-class destroyer escort}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''Jobb''
|Ship namesake=Richard Patrick Jobb
|Ship ordered=1942
|Ship builder=[[Defoe Shipbuilding Company]], [[Bay City, Michigan]]
|Ship laid down=20 December 1943
|Ship launched=4 March 1944
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|Ship commissioned=4 July 1944
|Ship decommissioned=13 May 1946
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|Ship honors=3 [[battle star]]s (World War II)
|Ship fate=Sold for scrap, October 1970
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Rudderow|destroyer escort}}
|Ship displacement=*{{convert|1450|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} light
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|Ship length= {{convert|306|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship complement=221
|Ship armament=*2 × single [[5-inch/38-caliber gun]]s
*2 × twin [[Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun|40 mm guns]]
*10 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm guns]]
*1 × triple [[American 21-inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s
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'''USS ''Jobb'' (DE-707)''' was a {{sclass|Rudderow|destroyer escort}} in service with the [[United States Navy]] from 1944 to 1946. She was sold for scrap in 1970.
==History==
USS ''Jobb'' was named after Richard Patrick Jobb, born in [[McCormick, Washington]], on 17 March 1920.  He enlisted in the Navy on 28 February 1942.  He was at [[Guadalcanal]] for [[United States|America]]'s first [[amphibious operation]] of the [[World War II|Pacific War]].  Hearing a call of a [[patrol]] subjected to enemy fire near the [[Namara River]] on 26 January 1943, [[Pharmacist's Mate]] Third Class Jobb rushed forward {{convert|150|yd}} through intense enemy fire to aid the wounded.  He continued to dress casualties under fire until he was himself hit and killed.  For his courageous devotion to duty, Jobb was posthumously awarded the [[Silver Star]].
''Jobb'' was laid down at [[Defoe Shipbuilding Company]], [[Bay City, Michigan]], on 20 December 1943.  She was launched on 4 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. S. L. Jobb, mother of Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Jobb; and commissioned at [[New Orleans]] on 4 July 1944.
===World War II, 1944&ndash;1945===
Following her shakedown training off [[Bermuda]], ''Jobb'' was assigned to a hunter-killer patrol group in the [[Atlantic]].  A [[hurricane]] forced her back to [[Norfolk, Virginia]] from 13&ndash;15 September, after which she steamed to [[New York City|New York]] to prepare for [[Pacific]] service.  ''Jobb'' sailed on 23 October, and proceeded via the [[Panama Canal]] and [[Bora Bora]] to [[Yos Sudarso Bay|Humboldt Bay, New Guinea]], where she arrived on 21 November.  With the invasion of the [[Philippines]] then underway, ''Jobb'' escorted a [[convoy]] to [[Leyte Gulf]] on 28 November.  She remained at [[Leyte Island|Leyte]] until 12 December, when she screened a slow tow convoy for [[Mindoro]].  The next day, Japanese snooper aircraft appeared, followed by bombers. In the raids of the next few days, ''Jobb's'' gunners shot down at least two of the attackers.  After seeing the tows safely to Mindoro, she next sailed via Leyte to New Guinea, where she arrived at [[Jayapura|Hollandia]] on 28 December.
The ship joined a convoy for newly assaulted [[Lingayen Gulf]] on 8 January 1945; but, after striking a [[reef]] in the Philippines on 16 January, she returned to Leyte Gulf for [[repair]]s.   Following further work on her [[propeller]]s at [[Manus Island|Manus]], ''Jobb'' returned to the Philippines in February to escort convoys carrying [[troop]]s and [[materiel|supplies]].  During these critical months, she protected support convoys to [[Palawan]], Mindoro, and [[Mindanao]] as the conquest of the Philippines proceeded apace.
''Jobb'' departed [[Morotai]] on 4 June to take part in the landings at [[Brunei Bay]], [[Borneo]].  She patrolled as troops went ashore on 10 June, and captured the strategic bay without opposition.  Later in the month, she screened a resupply convoy from Morotai.  She arrived at Leyte on 8 July for repairs before conducting [[anti-submarine]] patrol between the Philippines and [[Ulithi]] until the close of hostilities.
===Post-war activities, 1945&ndash;1946===
The veteran ship steamed to [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] on 23 August, and in the months that followed, operated between the various island bases in support of the [[Military occupation|occupation]] and reorganization of the Pacific area. ''Jobb'' arrived at Pearl Harbor on 31 December, and reached [[San Francisco]] on 9 January 1946.
===Decommissioning===
She later moved to [[San Diego]], decommissioned there on 13 May 1946, and entered the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]], berthed at [[Stockton, California]]. She was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 November 1969 and sold for scrapping in October 1970.
==Awards==
*[[Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal]] with three [[battle star]]s
*[[World War II Victory Medal]]
*[[Navy Occupation Medal]]
*[[Philippine Presidential Unit Citation]]
*[[Philippine Liberation Medal]] with star
== References ==
*{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/j/jobb.html|http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/escorts/de707.htm}}
==External links==
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[[Category:Rudderow-class destroyer escorts]]
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