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USS Neunzer (DE 150)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - G - F - S

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Edsall
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 20' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 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
Complement: 8 / 201

Neunzer (DE 150) Building and Operational Data:

29 January 1943: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.

01 June 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Weimar E. Neunzer, widow of Machinist Neunzer

27 September 1943: Commissioned at the Orange City Dock by Cap't J. M. Schelling, USN; Lt. John E. Greenbacker in command

14 June 1946: Decommissioned after 2 years and 8½ months of service

01 July 1972: Struck from the NVR

01 November 1973: Sold for scrapping to the Witte Scrap Yard, Staten Island, N.Y.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0615002	95k	undated wartime image	-
0615007	201k	25 April 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS *Neunzer* (DE 150) underway at speed. (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-228165 from the United States National Archives)	Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Manager, Navsource DE / FF / LCS Archive
0615004	58k	04 June 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS *Neunzer* (DE 150) transfers a sick sailor to the escort carrier USS *Guadalcanal* (CVE 60) in the Atlantic. The sailor was transferred to USS *Guadalcanal* to receive an emergency appendectomy. (Source: U.S. Navy photo from the USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60) World War II cruise book)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0615003	58k	October 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - USS *Neunzer* (DE 150) at sea. (Source: National Archive Photo; Courtesy of Task Group 22.3 Association, Captain Jerry Mason, USN [ret.])	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0615008	155k	circa 1944: location unknown - Officers of the destroyer escort USS *Neunzer* (DE 150). Seated at lower right is Lieutenant Richard B. Snow, who ran his own architecture firm in New York City before the war. (Personal photo from an opinion piece written by son Richard Snow in the New York Times on Saturday, 19 June 2010)	Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Manager, Navsource DE / FF / LCS Archive
0615009	304k	circa 1944: location unknown - Crew photo of the destroyer escort USS *Neunzer* (DE 150). (Photo from HyperWar, The U.S. Navy in World War II
0615005	218k	25 May 1973: Philadelphia, Pa. - Mothballed destroyer escorts at the Inactive Ship Facility of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Upper photo, from left to right; *Rizzi* (DE 537), *Edward H. Allen* (DE 531), *McClelland* (DE 750), *Cooner* (DE 172), *Neunzer* (DE 150), and *Swenning* (DE 394). Lower photo, from left to right; *Melvin R. Nawman* (DE 416), *Tabberer* (DE 418), *Coffman* (DE 191), *Rizzi* (DE 537), *Edward H. Allen* (DE 531), *McClelland* (DE 750), *Cooner* (DE 172), *Neunzer* (DE 150), and *Swenning* (DE 394). Note from Rick Davis: "Back in May 1973, Martin Holbrook (INRO Photo Collection), invited me for a tour of Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Mothball Fleet. Martin had been making trips to Philly and other mothball sites for years and was one of the “old-timers” that had been taking photos of USN ships since before WWII in the New York City area. Anyway, when he picked me up in his van, there were two other gents. One was Ted Stone (I thought the other one was Paul Silverstone, but when I had a chance to ask him a few years ago if it was, he said he didn’t recall a photo trip to PhilNSY). Martin had enough “pull” that we were provided with an Admiral’s Gig! I had my brand-new Nikon F2 35-mm camera. Martin and Ted had larger format cameras. I felt like a rank amateur and a kid in a candy store. I have seen some of the same photos of subjects that we all took photos from the same boat, show-up elsewhere. We were all excited that USS *Sigsbee* (DD 502) was on the outside of a nest this trip. Martin had been trying to get good views of her for years. Ex-USS *Gherardi* (DD 637) ... built at PhilNY ... was outside the reserve basin ready to be towed away for scrapping. We got photos of her as well".	Rick E. Davis Springfield, Oh.
0615006	671k		Rick E. Davis Springfield, Oh.

Neunzer History
View the USS Neunzer (DE 150) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Neunzer as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Neunzer's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 27 Sep 1943 - 02 May 1944	Lcdr. John Everett Greenbacker Jr., USN (Comm. CO) (USNA '40) (Meridan, Conn.)
2.) 02 May 1944 - .. Jan. 1946	Lcdr. Virgil Edward Gex, USN (USNA '40) (Graham, Mo.)
3.) .. Jan. 1946 - 14 Jun. 1946	Lcdr. P. A. Murray, USNR (Decomm. CO)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation

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