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USS Ira Jeffery (DE 63 / APD 44)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - X - Q - F
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal
CLASS: Buckley      TYPE: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots   Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 198
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hingham MA on 13 February 1943
Launched 15 May 1943, Commissioned at the Boston NSY 15 August 1943
Converted at New York NSY, Reclassified as APD 44, 23 February 1945
Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs FL 18 June 1946, Stricken 1 June 1960
Fate: Sunk as target, July 1962
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Ira Jeffery 263k July 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - USS Ira Jeffery (DE 63) on training exercises off Montauk Point, New York. Picture is from the National Archives and was taken by an aircraft from NAS New York at a height of 300 feet. Everett N. Schrader SoM1/c
Ira Jeffery 120k July 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - Taken off Montauk Point, Long Island by an aircraft from NAS New York. Everett N. Schrader SoM1/c
View the USS Ira Jeffery (DE 63), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Everett N. Schrader
Address: 3800 Snowden Hill Road / New Hartford NY 13413
Phone: (315) 737-9788
E-mail: irajay@adelphia.net
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NavSource APD Pages, Ira Jeffery
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