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USS Amick (DE-168)

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

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Class: Cannon      Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,240 tons (std) 1,620 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 11' 8" (max)
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
Machinery: 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots   Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Port Newark NJ on 7 January 1943
Launched 27 May 1943, Commissioned 26 July 1943
Decommissioned 16 May 1947, Stricken 15 June 1975

Fate: To Japan 14 June 1955, renamed JDS Asahi (DE-262),
to Philippines 13 September 1976, renamed BRP Datu Siratuna,
stricken and scrapped in 1989

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
	12k	Eugene Earle Amick was born on 26 January 1919 at Boonville, Mo. He studied at the University of Kansas City and Rockhurst College before entering William Jewell College in 1937. After graduating from the latter in 1941, Amick enlisted in the Naval Reserve on 19 September 1941. Following preliminary training he was appointed a midshipman on 13 February 1942 and entered the United States Naval Reserve Midshipman's School at Northwestern University. Upon his successful completion of the officers' candidate course there, he was commissioned ensign on 14 May 1942 and assigned to USS *Astoria* (CA-34). Amick served in that cruiser during the early summer of 1942 as she prepared to participate in the first Allied thrust in the Pacific the invasion of the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal. He was killed on the second night after the original landings as Allied warships attempted to protect American beachheads in the Battle of Savo Island in the small hours of 9 August. USS *Amick* (DE-168) was the first ship to be named in his honor. (Photo Courtesy of Alumni Relations, William Jewel College of Liberty MO thanks to Amie Smith)		Bill Gonyo
	105k	undated		-

View the USS Amick (DE-168), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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