USS Gaynier (DE-751) was a United States Navy

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  proposed during World War II

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 but never completed.

DE-751 was laid down by the Western Pipe and Steel Company

Western Pipe and Steel Company

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 at San Pedro, California

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, on 4 August 1943 and named USS Gaynier (DE-751) on 3 September 1943. She was launched

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 on 30 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Ireta Gaynier, the widow

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 of the ships namesake, Ensign

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 Oswald J. Gaynier

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.

Before Gaynier could be completed, her construction was suspended on 6 June 1944 and cancelled on 1 September 1944. The incomplete ship was scrapped.