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DD-83 / APD-6 Stringham


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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) - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (10) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Wickes Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, 19 September 1917, at Fore River Shipbuilding Corp, Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 30 March 1918
  • Commissioned USS Stringham (Destroyer No. 83), 2 July 1918, CDR. N. E. Nichols in command
  • Designated (DD-83) 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned and laid up at Philadelphia, PA., 2 June 1922
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport
  • Recommissioned USS Stringham (APD-6), 11 December 1940, at Norfolk, VA.
  • During WWII Stringham was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Guadalcanal - Tulagi landings Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Capture and Defense of Guadalcanal Western Caroline Islands operation
    New Georgia Group operation Marianas Island operation
    Eastern New Guinea operation Tinian capture and occupation
    Treasury - Bougainville operation Okinawa Gunto operation

  • Reclassified (DD-83), 25 June 1945
  • Decommissioned, 9 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 December 1945
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in March 1946, at Philadelphia, PA.
  • Stringham was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation in addition to 10 battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,154 t.
    Length 314' 5"
    Beam 31' 8"
    Draft 9' 10"
    Speed 35.2 kts.
    Complement 141
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 4"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm 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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    McKean 132k Stringham (APD-6 in board of McKean (APD-5) while moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, 23 April 1943
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 3015-43, 4/23/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    McKean 171k Stringham (APD-6 in board of McKean (APD-5) while moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, 23 April 1943
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 3016-43, 4/23/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 109k Stringham (APD-6 (Aft plan view) moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 May 1943
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 3986-43 5/25/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 151k Stringham (APD-6 (Forward plan view) moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 May 1943
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 3987-43 5/25/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 63k Stringham (APD-6 (Bows on view) underway in Mare Island Channel, 29 May 1943.
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 4013-43 5/29/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 66k Stringham (APD-6 (Broadside view) underway off Mare Island, 29 May 1943.
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 4015-43 5/29/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 75k Stringham (APD-6 (Stern view) underway in the Mare Island Channel, 29 May 1943.
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 4017-43 5/29/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Stringham 56k Stringham (APD-6) underway, January 1945
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
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    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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