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DD-85 / APD-2 Colhoun

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - World War I Victory Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Wickes Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, 19 September 1917, at Fore River Ship Building Co, Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 21 February 1918, at Fore River Shipbuilding Co. Quincy, MA.
  • Commissioned USS Colhoun (Destroyer No. 85), 13 June 1918, CDR. B. B. Wygant USN in command
  • Designated (DD-85), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 28 June 1922
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport
  • Recommissioned USS Colhoun (APD-2), 11 Dec 1940
  • During WWII Colhoun was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Guadalcanal - Tulagi landings Capture and Defense of Guadalcanal

  • Final Disposition, sunk by enemy aircraft off Guadalcanal 30 August 1942
  • Colhoun earned two battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,060 t.
    Length 314' 5"
    Beam 31' 8"
    Draft 8' 6"
    Speed 36 kts.
    Complement 100
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 4"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge rack
    four depth charge projectors
    Propulsion geared turbines, two propellers, 24,200shp
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    Colhoun 65k Colhoun (APD-2) in port, circa 1942, while painted in pattern camouflage.
    US Navy photo # NH 97776 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.     		US Naval Historical Center
    Colhoun 75k Colhoun (APD-2) tied to a mooring buoy, circa early 1942.
    US Navy photo # NH 97775 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.     		US Naval Historical Center
    Colhoun 56k Colhoun (APD-2) in port, circa 1942.
    US Navy photo # NH 97777 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.     		US Naval Historical Center
    Colhoun 69k Photo taken from HMAS Hobart in August 1942, less than three weeks later Colhoun was sunk off Guadalcanal Clint Wingate
    View the Colhoun (APD-2)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    American APD Corporation
    Four Stack APD Veterans

    Contact: CWO3 Curt Clark Secretary/Treasurer
    Address: 3384 Grim Ave., San Diego, CA 92104
    Phone: 619-282-0971
    E-mail: apdsec@cox.net
    Reunion Schedule
    2008 Reno, Nevada. Site and date to be determined
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "The Green Dragons" Four-stack APD destroyer-transports in World War Two
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    Last Updated 21 December 2007