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DD-232 / APD-10 Brooks


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Foxtrot - Victor
 NWFV
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid Down, 11 June 1918, at New York Shipbuilding Co, Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 24 April 1919
  • Commissioned, 18 June 1920, as USS Brooks (Destroyer No. 232), LT. D. M. Dalton in command
  • Designated (DD-232) 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned and laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 20 January 1931
  • Recommissioned at Philadelphia, 18 June 1932
  • Decommissioned, at Philadelphia, 2 September 1938
  • Recommissioned 25 May 1939
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Seattle, WA. and redesignated (APD-10), 1 December 1942
  • During World War II Brooks was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26 and 28 to 29 December 1943
    Admiralty Islands landings, 29 February to 5 March and 19 March 1944     		Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 14 to 22 June 1944
    Eastern New Guinea operation
    Lae occupation, 4 to 14 September 1943
    Finschhafen occupation, 22 and 29 to 30 September 1943
    Saidor occupation, 2 January to 17 February 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 18 November to 4 December 1944
    Hollandia operation. 22 to 28 April 1944 Luzon operation
    Mindoro landings, 12 to 18 December 1944
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 3 to 6 January 1945

  • Decommissioned, 2 August 1945, at San Pedro, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 17 September 1945
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 30 January 1946
  • Brooks received the Navy Unit Commendation and six battle stars for her World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,215 t.
    Length 314' 4"
    Beam 31' 8"
    Draft 9' 10"
    Speed 33.3 kts.
    Complement 130
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 5"/50 gun mounts
    DD-232
    four single 5"/51 single purpose gun mounts
    one single 3"/23 AA gun mount
    twelve 21" torpedo tubes
    APD-10
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge rack
    four depth charge projectors
    Propulsion two geared turbines, two propellers, 26,500 shp
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    Brooks 62k Brooks (APD-10) moored in a dry dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 4 January 1943.
    A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. (NARA, Record Group 19-LCM.)    		 Tracy White
    Brooks 56k Brooks (APD-10) underway, date and place unknown CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret.
    Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
    View the Brooks (APD-10)
    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