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DD-248 / APD-29 Barry


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Kilo - Tango
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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, 25 May 1945, Okinawa) - Presidential Unit Citation
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (3)
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (28 wounded, 25 May 1945)
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid Down, 26 July 1919, at New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 28 October 1920
  • Partially Commissioned USS Barry (DD-248), 28 December 1920, LTjg. A. H. Bamberger, USNR, in command
  • Held in reserve commission until fully commissioned, 15 November 1921
  • Decommissioned and assigned to the Rotating Reserve at Norfolk VA, 20 December 1932
  • Recommissioned, 20 June 1933
  • Designated (APD-29), January 1944
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Charleston Navy Yard, 31 December through 17 February 1944
  • During World War II Barry was first assigned to the European Theater and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater participating in the following campaigns:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Task Group 21.14 (2 Stars) Iwo Jima operation (1 Star)
    Invasion of Southern France (1 Star) Okinawa Gunto operation (1 Star)

  • Severally damaged by Japanese Kamikaze attack northwest of Okinawa, 25 May 1945, towed to Kerama Rhetto, stripped and decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 21 June 1945
  • Final Disposition, while being towed to sea to be used as a Kamikaze decoy, Barry and LSM-59 were sunk by additional Kamikaze attacks, 21 June 1945
  • Barry received the Presidential Unit Citation as a unit of TG 21.14 and five battle stars for her actions in the Atlantic and Pacific during 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
    three single 4"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge track
    four depth charge projectors
    Propulsion geared turbines
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    Barry 75k Barry (APD-29) underway, date and place unknown. CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret.
    Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
    Barry 87k Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307337 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Barry 110k Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307335 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Barry 85k Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307336 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Barry 84k Barry (APD-29) off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, Va.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307333 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Barb Rebold
    Greene 131k High-speed Transports (APD) at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, in late 1944. The APDs present, in center, are: Greene (APD-36) -- closest to camera; Osmond Ingram (APD-35) -- next inboard; Barry (APD-29); Roper (APD-20); and Tattnall (APD-19). At the extreme right is Hilary P. Jones (DD-427). This photograph was dated January 1945, but was taken at least a month earlier. Note old fort in the background.
    US Navy photo # 80-G-302954, now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    LSM-83 51k The hulk of the decommissioned Barry (APD-29) moored between Lipan (ATF-85) and LST-53 at Kerama Rhetto, circa late-May early-June 1945. LSM-83 is tied up to the opposite side of LST-53. Barry was used as a decoy ship to lure suicide planes into burned out ships and Lipan's job was to tow her. Ken Roberts to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
    View the Barry (APD-29)
    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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