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YN-87 / AN-66 Pinon

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down, as Yard Net Tender Pinon (YN-87), 9 March 1943, at American Car & Foundry, Wilmington DE.
  • Launched, 16 January 1944
  • Redesignated Net Laying Ship (AN-66), 20 January 1944
  • Commissioned USS Pinon (AN-66), 31 March 1944
  • Decommissioned, 5 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 20 March 1946
  • Sold (date unknown) and placed in merchant service as MV Alaska Reefer
  • Final Disposition, lost at sea 28 August 1961
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,100 t.
    Length 194' 6"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 56
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric, 2,500 hp, single propeller
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    Pinon 62k Pinon (AN-66) underway, date and place unknown. Submitted by Sonya Brown for her father
    Vendell B."Red" Davis USS Pinon.
    Pinon 103k Pinon (AN-66) reels in torn German torpedo nets and their buoys to replace them with new nets and buoys spanning the harbor mouth at Cherbourg, France, while getting the harbor ready to receive Allied shipping, circa July 1944. National Archives photo. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    View the Pinon (AN-66) crew roster of 26 February 1946. Submitted by Sonya Brown.
    View the Pinon (AN-66)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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