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USS Walton (DE361)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - O - U
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Otis"
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 - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star
Third Row: - Korea Service Medal w/ 2 stars - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
Fourth Row: Philippine Liberation Medal - UN Korean Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal
Specifications:
Class: John C. Butler
Type: WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1350 tons (light), 1745 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 11' 0" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 - 5"/38 cal. DP guns (2x1), 4 - 40mm AA (2x2), 10 - 20mm AA, 3 - 21" TT, 1 Mk10 Hedgehog, 8 Mk6 Depth Charge Projectors, 2 Mk9 Depth Charge Stern Racks
Complement: 14 / 201
Walton (DE361) Building and Operational Data:
  • 21 March 1944: Keel laid at the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.
  • 20 May 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Clara Olson, the mother of the late Sergeant Walton
  • 4 September 1944: Commissioned, Lcdr Wilbur S. Wills, Jr., in command
  • 31 May 1946: Decommissioned at San Diego, Cal.
  • 26 January 1951: Recommissioned at San Diego, Cal., Lcdr John D. Brink in command
  • 4 November 1951: Homeport reassigned to Pearl Harbor as a unit of CortDiv 92 (with DE's 440, 699, and 700)
  • 20 July 1958: Assigned to NRT, 12th Naval District at San Francisco, Cal. as a unit of Reserve CortDiv 12
  • 1 October 1961: Activated for the Berlin Crisis, reassigned to Pearl Harbor
  • 1 August 1962: Returned to San Francisco, deactivated, and returned to the Naval Reserve Training Program
  • 20 September 1968: Decommissioned
  • 23 September 1968: Stricken from the NVR
  • 7 August 1969: Sunk as target off California
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    Walton 41kb 20 May 1944: Orange, Tex. - Walton being side-launched. Nick Tiberio
    Walton 60kb undated (1950's) -
    View the USS Walton (DE361) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    2010 Reunion: 2nd week of October at San Diego, Cal.
    Dual Reunion with USS Edmonds (DE406)
    USS Walton Web Site
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    Ed Whitehead's USS Walton Web Site
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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