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DE- 344 USS OBERRENDER

Class: John C. Butler Type:WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,350/1745 tons Dimensions: 306' (oa) x 36' 10" x 13'4" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38, 4 (2x2) 40mmAA, 10-20mm AA, 3-21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT's, 2 DC tracks
Machinery: 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 6000 nm@12 knots Crew: 14 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX on 8 November 1943
Launched 18 January 1944, Commissioned 11 May 1944
Decommissioned 11 July 1945, Stricken 25 July 1945

Fate: Irreparably damaged by Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa 9 May 1945
Sunk as target off Kerama Retto 6 November 1945

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Oberrender 36kb undated wartime image USN
Oberrender 138kb Explosion of Mount Hood (AE-11) in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944. Small craft gathered around Mindanao (ARG-3) during salvage and rescue efforts shortly after Mount Hood (AE-11) blew up about 350 yards away from Mindanao's port side. Mindanao, and seven motor minesweepers (YMS) moored to her starboard side, were damaged by the blast, as were Alhena (AKA-9), in the photo's top left center, and Oberrender (DE-344), in top right. Note the extensive oil slick, with tracks through it made by small craft. Copied from the War Diary, Manus Naval Base, for November 1944 US Navy photo # NH 95405 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center Fred Weiss

USS OBERRENDER DE- 344 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

NONE LOCATED
Contact Name: none
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: none


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