The USS Piper was a Cannon-class destroyer escort ship named after Ensign George Washington Piper, who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was commissioned in 1943 and served during World War II, primarily escorting convoys in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was involved in anti-submarine warfare operations and participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944. After the war, the USS Piper was decommissioned and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. It was later transferred to the Republic of China Navy under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program in 1959 and served as the ROCS Tai Yuan. The ship was eventually decommissioned by the Republic of China Navy in 1972.

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