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USS Witter (DE-636)


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


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/2 stars - WWII Victory Medal
Class: Buckley      Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 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: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots   Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 198
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco on 28 April 1943
Launched 17 October 1943, Commissioned 19 December 1943.
Scheduled conversion to APD-58 never carried out
Decommissioned 29 October 1945, Stricken 16 November 1945
Fate: Sold to Northern Metals, Philadelphia PA on 2 December 1946
and broken up for scrap.
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Witter 66k January 1944: starboard bow view, underway on shakedown off the coast of California (National Archive #19-N-62176) Joseph Ogrodnik
Witter 61k January 1944: starboard stern view, underway on shakedown off the coast of California (National Archive #19-N-62177) Joseph Ogrodnik
Witter 68k January 1944: port broadside view, underway on shakedown off the coast of California (National Archive #19-N-62175) Joseph Ogrodnik
Witter 64k May 1945: docked off Okinawa - After being hit by "Kamikaze" on 6 April 1945. (P.N.Y. #1621-45) Joseph Ogrodnik
Witter 90k May 1945: docked off Okinawa - After being hit by "Kamikaze" on 6 April 1945. (P.N.Y. #1622-45) Joseph Ogrodnik
Witter 116k May 1945: docked off Okinawa - Engineering Officer Bruno Naczkowski inspects damage after being hit by "Kamikaze" on 6 April 1945. Joseph Ogrodnik
View the USS Witter (DE-636), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Witter's Next and FINAL Reunion:
9, 10, 11 July 2008
at Albany NY
Contact Name: Joseph Ogrodnik, USS Witter Reunion Group Historian
Address:26 Lagadia St. / Chicopee MA 01020-1428
Phone:(413) 598-8595
E-mail: jjogrodnik@charter.net
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