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USS Newman (DE205 / APD59)


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



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 5 stars - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal
Third Row: WWII Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal w/ Asia Clasp - Philippine Liberation Medal w/ 2 stars
Specifications:
Class: Buckley
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 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: 15 / 198
Newman (DE205) Building and Operational Data:
  • 8 June 1943: Keel laid by the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.
  • 9 August 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. J. B. Newman, mother of L. G. Newman AD3
  • 26 November 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr W. C. Meyer, USNR, in command
  • 5 July 1944: Reclassified APD59, converted at Frontier Base, Staten Island, N.Y.
  • 18 February 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
  • 1 September 1964: Stricken
  • 15 August 1966: Sold for scrapping to the Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md.
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    Newman 183k undated wartime image Harold S. Deal, Phm 1/c, USS Liddle
    from his grandson, Jeff Deal
    Newman 136k undated wartime image
    View the USS Newman (DE205 / APD59), DANFS history entry
    located on the U.S. Naval Historical Center web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    2009 Reunion for the Battle of Ormoc Bay Association
    10 - 14 September 2009
    Crown Plaza Hotel at Alexandria, Va.
    Contact: Irwin J. Kappes
    Address: 522 North Shore / Tinton Falls NJ 07753
    Phone: (732) 922-6438
    E-mail: Irwin Kappes
    or
    Contact: William M. Dallam (Sec'y/Treas., Ormoc Bay Assoc.)
    Address: 117 Tuscarora St. / Harrisburg PA 17104
    E-mail: William Dallam
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