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USS Lansing (DE 388)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: N K J M
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "FLASH BACK"

CLASS: Edsall TYPE: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (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 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 8 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX on 15 May 1943, Launched 2 August 1943
Commissioned 10 November 1943, Decommissioned 25 April 1946
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-488, 15 June 1952
Returned USN and Decommissioned 29 March 1954
Reclassified and converted DER-388, 21 October 1955
Recommissioned 18 December 1956, Decommissioned 21 May 1965
Stricken 1 February 1974

Fate: Sold for scrapping 16 August 1974

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
77k	29 April 1945: New York Harbor (Photo: National Archives)	Terry A. Moberg RM2 (1960 - 1963)
73k	Date unknown: USCGC *Lansing* (WDE-488) believed to have been taken at Sand Island, off Honolulu, Hawaii (Official Coast Guard photo, National Archives)	Terry A. Moberg
93k	March 1957: operating off Point Loma CA (Photo: National Archives)	Terry A. Moberg
72k	16 November 1963: Pacific Ocean	Robert Hurst
76k	October 1964: Moored at Johnston Island in the South Pacific. (Photo: National Archives)	Terry A. Moberg

View the USS Lansing (DE 388), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Terry A. Moberg
Address: 902 Cindy St. / Brainerd MN 56401
Phone: (218) 829-3288
E-mail: Terry Moberg

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