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USS Barr (DE 576 / APD 39)


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


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal
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
Barr (DE 576) Building and Operational Data:
  • 5 November 1943: Keel laid by by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Co., Hingham, Mass.
  • 28 December 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Cora Dell Barr, Pfc. Barr's mother
  • 15 February 1944: Commissioned at Boston, Mass., Lcdr Henry H. Love in command
  • 26 October 1944: Conversion to a Crosley Class APD completed at the Boston Navy Yard, redesignated APD 39
  • 12 July 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
  • 1 June 1960: Stricken from the NVR
  • 23 March 1963: Sunk as target off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico
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    Barr 106k USS Barr (DE 576) showing damage to her stern after she was torpedoed by U-549 in the same wolfpack battle in which USS Block Island
    (CVE 21) was sunk. (Photo from "United States Destroyer Operations in World War II" by Theodore Roscoe)    		 Robert Hurst
    Barr 211k A similar picture to the above, taken from a different angle. (Photo from the Ned J. Marrow Collection) Ned Marrow
    via
    Carol Hipperson
    Memorabilia
    Newsletter Article about
    Block Island's Loss
    Barr
    Courtesy of Ned Marrow
    View the USS Barr (DE 576) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Contact Name: "Smiley" Burnette
    E-mail: Smiley Burnette
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    Additional Resources
    Navsource APD Pages, USS Barr (APD39)
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    Tin Can Sailors
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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