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USS Lansing (DE 388)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - K - J - M
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Flash Back"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star
Specifications:
Class: Edsall
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 20' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 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: 8 / 201
Lansing (DE 388) Building and Operational Data:
  • 15 May 1943: Keel laid at the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex.
  • 2 August 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Alberta L. Lansing, widow of William H. Lansing
  • 10 November 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr S. R. Sands in command
  • 25 April 1946: Decommissioned
  • 15 June 1952: Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned as WDE 488
  • 29 March 1954: Returned USN and Decommissioned
  • 21 October 1955: Reclassified and converted DER 388
  • 18 December 1956: Recommissioned, Lcdr G. N. DeBuer in command
  • 21 May 1965: Decommissioned at Bremerton, Wash.
  • 1 February 1974: Stricken from the NVR
  • 16 August 1974: Sold for scrapping
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    By And/Or Copyright
    Lansing 71k undated wartime image: Lansing painted in measure MS21 camouflage color scheme. (National Archives Photo) Mike Green
    Lansing 77k 29 April 1945: New York Harbor (National Archives Photo) Terry A. Moberg
    RM2 (1960 - 1963)
    Lansing 73k Date unknown: USCGC Lansing (WDE-488) believed to have been taken at Sand Island, off Honolulu, Hawaii (Official Coast Guard photo, National Archives)
    Lansing 93k March 1957: operating off Point Loma, Cal. (Photo: National Archives)
    Lansing 72k 16 November 1963: Pacific Ocean Robert Hurst
    Lansing 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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    Additional Resources
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Lansing
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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