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YN-97 / AN-78 / ANL-78 Cohoes

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (3 August 1968)
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Fourth Row - Vietnam Service Medal (9) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (6) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Cohoes Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Projected as Yard Net Tender Cohoes (YN-97)
  • Redesignated Net Laying Ship (AN-78), 20 January 1944
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.
  • Launched, 29 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Cohoes (AN-78), 23 March 1945, Lt. D. B. Little, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 3 September 1947 at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned in 1968
  • Redesignated (ANL-78), 1 January 1969
  • During the Vietnam War Cohoes participated in the:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
    3 July to 1 September 1968
    26 September to 1 November 1968     		Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
    4 February to 16 May 1971
    10 to 30 June 1971
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI
    2 November to 23 December 1968
    24 January to 22 February 1969     		Consolidation I
    1 July to 15 August 1971
    4 September to 4 November 1971
    Tet69/Counteroffensive - Phase V
    23 February to 2 May 1969     		Consolidation I
    1 December 1971 to 18 January 1972
    11 February to 29 March 1972
    Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    9 June to 1 August 1969
    20 August to 10 October 1969     		Vietnam Ceasefire
    30 March to 3 April 1972
    Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
    5 November to 19 December 1969
    28 January to 21 March 1970
    21 September to 24 November 1970     		.

  • Decommissioned and Struck from the Naval Register, 30 June 1972
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 February 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service
  • Cohoes earned nine campaign stars for Vietnam War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 775 t.
    Length 168' 6"
    Beam 33' 10"
    Draft 10' 10"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 46
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount
    Propulsion diesel electric, 2,500hp
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    USS Cohoes (AN-78)
    Cohoes 18k Cohoes (AN-78) underway, place unknown, circa early 1945. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Cohoes 102k Cohoes (AN-78) starboard view underway near buoy #1 San Diego, CA., early 1968. US Navy photo. Tom Allen
    Cohoes 58k Cohoes (AN-78) overhead view underway near buoy #1 San Diego, CA., early 1968. For salvage work in Vietnam a bow-thruster was added for better maneuvering.
    US Navy photo.    		 Tom Allen
    USS Cohoes (ANL-78)
    Cohoes 78k Cohoes (ANL-78) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1970.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cohoes 76k Cohoes (ANL-78) lifting a sunken LCVP, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1970.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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