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DD-235 / APD-18 Kane

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Papa - Echo
NHPE

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - 2nd Nicaraguan Campaign Medal
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (7)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (3-WIA, 23 June 1944 off Saipan)

Clemson Class Destroyer:

Laid down, 3 July 1918, at New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden, N.J.

Launched, 12 August 1919

Commissioned USS Kane (Destroyer No. 235), 11 June 1920, CDR. William Hall in command

Designated (DD-235) 17 July 1920

Decommissioned 31, December 1930, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.

Recommissioned. 1 April 1932, at Philadelphia Navy Yard

Decommissioned, 28 April 1938, at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.

Recommissioned, 23 September 1939

Converted to a High-speed Transport at Todd Dry Dock, Seattle, WA.

Redesignated (APD-18), 3 April 1943

During World War II Kane was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Aleutians operations Attu occupation, 26 March to 2 June 1943	Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Saipan, June 1944 Capture and occupation of Guam, 17 July 1944
Marshall Islands operation Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 30 January 1944	Leyte operation Leyte landings, 20 October 1944
Eastern New Guinea operations Finschhafen occupation - Milne Bay, February 1944	Okinawa Gunto operations Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 17 to 27 June 1945
Bismarck Archipelago operations Admiralty Island landings, 29 February 1944	.

Decommissioned, 24 January 1946, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 25 February 1946

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 21 June 1946, to Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, PA

Kane received seven battle stars for service in World War II

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

DD-235

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

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
120k	Aft plan view of Kane (APD-14) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 7 January 1944. Denver (CL-58) and Birmingham (CL-62) are in the background. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 189-44	Darryl Baker
104k	Forward plan view of Kane (APD-14) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 7 January 1944. Denver (CL-58) and Birmingham (CL-62) are in the background. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 190-44	Darryl Baker
88k	Stern view of Kane (APD-14) off Navy Yard Mare Island, 8 January 1944. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 226-44	Darryl Baker
71k	Starboard bow view of Kane (APD-18) off Navy Yard Mare Island, 8 January 1944. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 229-44	CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret. Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
101k	Broadside view of Kane (APD-14) off Navy Yard Mare Island, 8 January 1944. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 228-44	Darryl Baker
79k	Bows on view of Kane (APD-14) in San Francisco Bay, 8 January 1944. *Kane* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 10 December 1943 until 8 January 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 230-44	Darryl Baker
175k	Kane (APD-18) underway off San Pedro, CA., in April 1945. The *Kane* shows the general deck arrangement of flush deckers converted to fast transports. Two boilers and their stacks along with all of her torpedo tubes have been removed in her conversion, being replaced by four landing craft, their handling machinery and troop stowage quarters. Because of the kamikaze threat being encountered, the fast transports were relatively well armed; 3"/50s replacing her original 5"/51s, single 40mm guns aft along with five 20mm A.A. guns. To offset these additions four depth charge throwers and a single depth charge stern rack were removed	.
111k	Kane (APD-18) underway off San Pedro, CA., in 1945	.

View the Kane (APD-18)
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