The USS Menges was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II.
On January 26, 1944 she got underway from Norfolk for New York City, and on January 31 departed for Europe on the first three month long deployment escorting convoys. On May 3 Menges was 15½ miles astern of a convoy chasing down a radar contact when she was hit at 0118 hours by an G7es acoustic torpedo from U-371. The explosion was so violent that the aft third of the ship was destroyed, killing 31 men and wounding 25. Despite the damage her commanding officer properly refused to give the order to abandon ship as long as there was chance of saving her. In addition, several of the crew members heroically jumped astride torpedoes loosened in the blast to disarm them. Menges, thanks to such creditable action, remained afloat. Four hours later she was taken in tow by HMS Aspirant, and later reached Bougie, Algeria to debark her dead and wounded. On June 23, the temporarily repaired Menges got underway from Oran, under tow by USS Carib, bound for New York, and arrived July 22nd. In August the stern of the USS Holder, whose forward two thirds had been blown away by a torpedo in the Mediterranean Sea on April 11, was welded to the remaining two thirds of Menges. The new ship came out of drydock at the New York Navy Yard on September 26. Menges received two battle stars for her World War II service.
The day after she was attacked, USS Joseph E. Campbell, USS Pride and other warships succeeded in destroying the responsible Nazi U-boat.
| Name | Rating | Duty Station | Date |
| Ramond, A. F. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Cataloni, A. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Petrolini, A. | S2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Nichols, B. R. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Oglesby, B. B. | TM3 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Nall, C. L. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Sanders, C. G. | BM2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Etchison, H. N. | TM3 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Woods, H. J. | F1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| De Young, J. A. | BM1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Hoodcock, J. L. Jr | F1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Pirri, J. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Misukonis, J. S. | BM2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Seppi, J. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Brugger, L. C. | CMoMM | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Cataldo, L. J. | GM1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Risner, P. R. | S2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Galary, R. J. | S1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Missbach, R. H. | F1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Thompson, R. E. | S2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| La Vonier, R. J. | F1 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Stewartz, S. S. | S2 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Minor, W. B. | QM3 | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |
| Elaman, W. | AS | USS Menges | 5/3/1944 |