sentences: "Gary" (DE-326) was laid down on 15 June 1943 at Orange, Texas by the Consolidated Steel Corporation; launched on 21 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Wille Mae Gary, mother of Seaman 2nd Class Gary and commissioned on 27 November 1943, Lieutenant Commander William H. Harrison, USNR, in command.Following shakedown exercises out of Bermuda and post-shakedown overhaul at Charleston, "Gary" reported to the Commander Caribbean Sea Frontier at Guantanamo Bay for temporary duty on 5 February 1944.