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DD-116 / APD-9 Dent


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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal
Wickes Class Destroyer:
  • Laid Down, 30 August 1917, at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 23 March 1918
  • Commissioned USS Dent (Destroyer No 116), 9 September 1918, CDR. B. C. Allen in command
  • Redesignated (DD-116) 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 7 June 1922, at San Diego, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 15 May 1930
  • Entered Rotating Reserve at San Diego, 18 December 1934
  • Returned to Active Commissioned Status, 10 June 1935
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Seattle. WA.
  • Redesignated (APD-9), 7 March 1943
  • During World War II Waters was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Consolidation of Southern Solomons Hollandia operation
    New Georgia Group operation Marianas operation
    Eastern New Guinea operation .

  • Decommissioned, 4 December 1945, at Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 13 June 1946
  • Dent earned five 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 122
    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 24,200 shp; two geared turbines, two propellers
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    Dent 35k Dent (APD-9) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret.
    Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
    Dent 77k Dent (APD-9) underway in Tulagi harbor, Solomon Islands, 25 July 1943. In the left background is Honolulu (CL-48), which was damaged by Japanese torpedoes during the Battle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-258922 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    View the Dent (APD-9)
    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