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YFD-64 / AFDM-8 Richland

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
AFDM-3 Class Medium Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock:
  • Built (date unknown) at Chicago Building & Iron Co., Eureka, CA.
  • Commissioned, 28 November 1944, as YFD-64
  • Decommissioned, 8 June 1946, at Guam
  • Redesignated AFDM-8, 1 August 1946
  • Placed in service, 1 January 1947
  • Named Richland 6 April 1968
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 22 August 1997
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,000 t.
    Length 622'
    Beam 124'
    Draft 6 ft
    Armament (WWII) 2 40mm, 4 20mm
    Complement 4 Officers, 146 Enlisted
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    Ponchatoula 89k Ponchatoula (AO-148) being maneuvered by tugs to get into position for entry into Richland (AFDM-8), in preparation for drydocking at Guam during the 1970s.
    US Navy photo # NH 99062 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Ponchatoula 115k Astern view of Ponchatoula (AO-148) while drydocked in Richland (AFDM-8), at Guam during the 1970s. Open Lighter (NSP) YC-1458 is in the foreground. Original caption: "The size of the ship's propellers is evident in this photograph taken in drydock."
    US Navy photo # NH 99063 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Ponchatoula 88k Ponchatoula (AO-148) drydocked in Richland (AFDM-8) at Guam during the 1970s.
    US Navy photo # NH 99061 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Richland 64k Richland (AFDM-8), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1979.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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