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USS Hulbert (DD-342)
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 USS Hulbert (AVD-6) (1940 - 1943)
 USS Hulbert (AVP-19) (1939 - 1940)
 USS Hulbert (DD-342) (1920 - 1939)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Kilo - Delta
 NUKD
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Yangtze Service Medal - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as Hulbert (Destroyer # 342) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Launched, 28 June 1918
  • Reclassified DD-342 in the Navy's fleet-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers, 17 July 1920
  • Commissioned USS Hulbert (DD-342), 27 October 1920, at Norfolk, VA.. LT. S. A. Maher in command
  • Decommissioned, 17 October 1934, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, laid up in reserve
  • Redesignated Seaplane Tender, Small AVP-19, converted at New York Navy Yard, circa 1939-40
  • Recommissioned as Sea Plane Tender, Destroyer USS Hulbert (AVD-6), 2 August 1940, at New York Navy Yard
  • During World War II USS Hulbert was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns/actions:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 Aleutians operation
    Attu occupation, 18 to 31 May 1943

  • Reclassified Destroyer DD-342, 1 December 1943
  • Decommissioned, 2 November 1945, at Navy Yard Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Ship Shape, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. in October 1946
  • USS Hulbert earned two battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement; 1,215 t.
    Length; 314'4½"
    Beam; 31' "
    Draft; 9' 9¾"
    Speed; 34.72 kts.
    Complement; 130
    Boats; 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 5"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion;
    two geared turbines
    three boilers
    two propellers, 26,500shp
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    Hulbert 911k USS Hulbert (AVD-6) appears to be sitting on the bottom at her berth possibly at NAS Adak or NAS Kodiak, circa 1943.
    US National Archives photo.    		 Jon Burdett
    Hulbert 81k USS Hulbert (AVD-6) stranded on the beach by low tide at Massacre Bay, Attu Island, Aleutians in July 1943. She is held upright by sand which the waves had piled around her. LCT-357 is bow-in at Hulbert's stern.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 78215 Courtesy of James C. Fahey    		 Robert Hurst
    Hulbert 265k USS Hulbert (AVD-6) aground at Massacre Bay, Alaska in July 1943. Hulbert was blown ashore in a severe storm on 30 June 1943. She was refloated, temporary repairs made at Dutch Harbor and sailed for Seattle for a major overhaul. Ed Zajkowski
    Hulbert 108k USS Hulbert (AVD-6) aground at Massacre Bay, Alaska in July 1943. Hulbert was blown ashore in a severe storm on 30 June 1943. She was refloated after 21 days. Temporary repairs were made at Dutch Harbor and she sailed for Seattle for a major overhaul. Mark Pasciak for his father Casimir P. Pasciak USS Hulbert
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    USS Hulbert (DD-342 / AVP-19 / AVD-6)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Pearl Harbor Action Report
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