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DD-260 / AVD-12 Gillis

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Romeo - Romeo
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 20 July 1943) - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as Gillis (Destroyer # 260) at Bethlehem Steel Corp., Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 29 May 1919
  • Commissioned USS Gillis (Destroyer # 260), 3 September 1919, at Boston, LCDR. Webb Trammell in command
  • Reclassified DD-270 in the Navy's fleet-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 26 May 1922, laid up in reserve at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, CA.
  • Withdrawn from reserve, commissioned in ordinary, 28 June 1940
  • Redesignated AVD-12, 2 August 1940
  • Placed in full commission as USS Gillis (AVD-12), 25 March 1941
  • During World War II Gillis was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Aleutians operation, March to June 1943 Okinawa Gunto operation, 1 to 28 April 1945

  • Decommissioned, 15 October 1945, at San Pedro, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1945
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 29 January 1946.
  • Gillis earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement; 1,190 t.
    Length; 314' 5"
    Beam; 31' 8"
    Draft; 9' 3"
    Speed; 35 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; geared turbines, 26,500shp, two propellers
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    Gillis 61k Gillis (AVD-12) underway, date and location unknown. .
    Gillis 20k Gillis (AVD-12) underway, date and location unknown. Paul Rebold
    Gillis 120k Gillis (AVD-12) tending Higgins type motor torpedo boats (PTs) of Motor Torpedo Squadron 13, in Casco Cove, Massacre Bay, Attu Island, Aleutians, 21 June 1943. Note the PBY Catalina flying boat astern of Gillis.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-9454 (Color), a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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