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USS Greenwood (DE-679)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - V - H
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Pomona"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Expeditionary Medal - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star
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, Quincy on 29 June 1943, Launched 21 August 1943.
Commissioned 25 September 1943
Assigned to NRT, 6th Naval District at Charleston SC, December 1957
Decommissioned 2 September 1958, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Assigned to NRT, 6th Naval District at St. Petersburg FL 1 August 1962
Out of Service 20 February 1967, Stricken 20 February 1967
Fate: Sold for scrap, 6 September 1967, to Lipsett, Inc. of
New York City and broken up at Kearny NJ
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By And/Or Copyright
Greenwood 8k Frank Greenwood was born to Harry and Laura Greenwood in Methuen, Mass. on 10 January 1915. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve as an Apprentice Seaman at Boston, Mass. on 17 July 1940. He received his initial training aboard USS Arkansas (BB-33). Upon completion of training his enlistment terminated under honorable conditions. He was appointed Midshipman, received training at the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois and commissioned as an Ensign on 12 December 1940. He was assigned to the Fifth Naval District awaiting transportation to his new assignment aboard the USS Erie (PG-50). While on active duty as the Gunnery Officer aboard Erie he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade. Lt. (j.g.) Greenwood was killed in action with the enemy U-boat U-163 on 12 November 1942 when his ship, Erie was torpedoed while on convoy duty in the Caribbean theater of operation.

USS Greenwood (DE-679) was the first ship to be named in his honor.

(Photo Courtesy of the USS Greenwood DE-679 web site thanks to John Lorence)		 Bill Gonyo
Greenwood 27k undated wartime image Contributed by John Lorence, In
Memory of Harry Welsh Y3c/USN
Greenwood 78k 1947: underway off Key West, FL Contributed by John Lorence
and Ken Knudsen S1c/USN
Greenwood 38k undated postwar image -
Greenwood 31k undated postwar image Contributed by John Lorence
and Frank Coleman EM1/USN
Greenwood 94k January 1967: Newport RI (Photo © Richard Leonhardt) Richard Leonhardt
View the USS Greenwood (DE-679), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: John Lorence.
E-mail: de679@yahoo.com
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