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USS Oberrender (DE-344)


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


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars - World War II Victory Medal
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 DP, 4 (2x2) 40mm AA, 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 on 9 May 1945
Sunk as target off Kerama Retto 6 November 1945
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Oberrender 36k 15 July 1944 Bill Gonyo
Oberrender 36k 15 July 1944 (Photo #BS132048 from the National Archives)
Oberrender 138k 10 November 1944: Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands - Just after the explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11). Small craft gathered around Mindanao (ARG-3) during salvage and rescue efforts shortly after Mount Hood 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 USS Alhena (AKA-9), in the photo's top left center, and Oberrender, 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
View the USS Oberrender (DE-344), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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