USS LLOYD E. ACREE DE 356 was laid down by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas. Construction began 24 January 1944 and she was launched 21 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Ora A. Acree; and commissioned 1 August 1944, Lt. Comdr. John E. Greenbacker in command.

After shakedown out of Bermuda and convoy operations, USS LLOYD E. ACREE was assigned to CortDiv 82 and departed Norfolk for the South Pacific 21 October.  Steaming via the Panama Canal, the Societies, and the New Herbrides, she reached Hollandia, New Guinea 28 November for duy with the 7th Fleet.

Following ASW training off New Guinea, USS LLOYD E. ACREE sailed 13 Decebeer as escort for a 44-ship convoy bound for Leyte, Philippines.  She arrived San Pedro Bay 21 December and after an escort run to the Palaus and back, she returned to Hollandia as convoy escort 13 January 1945.  During the first 3 months of 1945, she continued to escort the vital troop and supply convoys which were important to the success of the Allied offensive in Luzon.  The destroyer escort arrived Mangarin Bay, Mondoro, 18 March and began ASW patrol duty in the South China Sea.  During the next 4 months she cruised in search of enemy submarines from Mindoro to Subic Bay.  While on patrol off Mindoro 8 April, she rescued survivors of a Liberator which had exploded en route to a bombing mission over Formosa.  In addditon she supported the training of 7th Fleet submarines off the Philippines.

USS LLOYD E. ACREE resumed convoy escort duty in the closing weeks of the war.  She departed Subic Bay 12 July as escort for a convoy bound for Okinawa.  She continued operating between the Philippines and the Ryukyus until 12 September when she began weather patrols off the Philippines.  For more than 5 months she operated out of various Philippine ports from Manila, Luzon, to Guiuan, Samar, while gathering important weather information in the Philippine Sea.

Departing Manila 15 February 1946, DE 356 steamed to the coast of China and arrived Tsingtao 20 February.  For almost 2 months she operated in the Yellow and East China Seas in ASW training and supporting Chinese Nationalists during their struggle with Chinese Communists.

On 15 April she departed Tsingtao via the Marianas, Marshalls and Pearl Harbor and reached San Pedro 11 May.  There she decommissioned 10 October, was inactivated at San Diego 20 November, and joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 

In 1969 she remained berthed at Mare Island, CA.

DE 356 was stricken from the U.S. Navy record 15 Jan 1972 and sold for scrapping 13 July 1973 to National Metal & Steel Corp., Term Island, CA., for $46,000.

Sources:
DANFS, Vol. 4, 1969, p. 129
US Navy Ship Dispositions:  Post-World War Two, 1996, Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington.