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YN-4 / AN-9 / ANL-9 Butternut / YAG-60

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Sierra - Whiskey
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet Clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down, 11 March 1941, as Yard Net Tender (YN-4)at Lake Washington Shipyards Houghton, WA.
  • Launched, 10 May 1941
  • Placed in service, as Butternut (YN-4), 3 September 1941, LT. Andreas S. Einmo, USNR, in charge
  • Commissioned USS Butternut (YN-4), 13 May 1942, at Seattle, WA., LT. Andreas S. Einmo, USNR, in command
  • Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-9) in January 1944
  • During World War II Butternut was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Redesignated ANL-9, 1 January 1969
  • Decommissioned, 18 June 1969, at San Diego, CA.
  • Reinstated as Miscellaneous Auxiliary YAG-60 and placed in service on the Pacific Missile Range
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July1971
  • Final Disposition, destroyed as a target, June 1977
  • Butternut earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.(fl), 700 t.(fl)
    Length 151' 8"
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 10' 6"
    Speed 14 kts.
    Complement 40
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    three 20mm AA gun mounts
    one y-gun
    Propulsion diesel, single screw
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    Butternut 69k Butternut (AN-9) underway, date and place unknown. Eddie Pinson USN Ret.
    Butternut 71k Butternut (AN-9) underway, date and place unknown. Eddie Pinson USN Ret.
    Butternut 108k Butternut (AN-9) at the Pacific Missile Test Range, date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1963.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Butternut 147k Butternut (AN-9) towing a crane barge, and date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1963.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Butternut 72k Butternut (AN-9) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1966.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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    DANFS history at the US Naval Historical Center web site.
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