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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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Richland (AFDM-8)
ex
USS YFD-64 (1944 - 1946)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Foxtrot - November NCFN

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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

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FInal disposition, scrapped in the Philippines, 2016

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Specifications:
Displacement 8,000 tons
Length 622'
Beam 124'
Draft 6 ft
Armament (WWII) 2 40mm, 4 20mm
Complement 4 Officers, 146 Enlisted
Machinery unknown

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	62k	Richland (AFDM-8) at Guam, Marianas Islands, circa 1969. Note nuclear-powered submarine undergoing maintenance and dry dock support barge alongside. Photo by Robert Fudge.		Robert Hurst
	89k	USS 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
	115k	Stern view of USS 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
	88k	USS 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
	64k	Richland (AFDM-8) at Guam, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1979.		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	429k	Richland (AFDM-8) is positioned at her new location, 21 April 1992, at Naval Station Guam after being towed from Naval Station, Subic Bay. Note the floating crane YD-226, foreground, and the non-self propelled fuel barge YON-289 alongside to starboard of the dry dock. DOD photo # DN-SC-93-00204
	469k	Ex-Richland (AFDM-8) at Guam Ship Yard in 2010.		Bob Gregory Executive Support COMPACFLT N43
	1216k	Ex-Richland (AFDM-8) being towed out of Apra Harbor Guam to General Santos Shipyard in the Philippines for scrapping, 27 January 2016. This ended 48 yrs of this drydock's presence in Guam.		Lee Wahler
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	469k	Ex-Richland (AFDM-8) receives preparations and inspections before being towed from the confines of Apra Harbor, U.S. Naval Base Guam (NBG), for an open ocean tow from Guam to the Philippines, 27 January 2016. US Navy photo 160127-N-OG363-206, taken by Jeff Landis		Bob Gregory Executive Support COMPACFLT N43

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USS YFD-64 / Richland (AFDM-8)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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Officers in Charge
01	CDR. Armbrust, Carl Raymond, USN	1950 - July 1951
02	CAPT. Palmer, Charles J., USN	July 1951 - 1953
03	LCDR. Buchholz, Philip Partick	1962
03	LT. Lipke, Allen, Edwin, USN	22 February 1964 - 31 May 1964
04	LT. Youmans, Edwin Earl, USN	31 May 1964 - 16-June 1964
05	LT. Lipke, Allen, Edwin, USN	16 June 1964 - February 1966

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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