Ships
- USS Abercrombie (DE-343) Commanding officer from 1 May 1944 · Relieved on 29 May 1945
Lieutenant Commander Bernard H. Katschinski, USNR, had Abercrombie (DE-343) from her commissioning on 1 May 1944 until 29 May 1945. uboat.net records that he was born in San Francisco in 1913 and that he died on 24 December 1953.
Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, and the Okinawa picket through the day he was relieved were his. On 25 October 1944 the ship was close enough to see part of the fight off Samar and was not engaged. On 9 January 1945 she was flagship at Lingayen Gulf. John R. Hicks relieved him on 29 May 1945. A collision one account places with Dyson on 5 June, and the occupation voyages after the surrender, fell to the captains who followed him.