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DE-208 / APD-62 Cofer

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.
  • Launched 6 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS Cofer (DE-208), 19 January 1944
  • Converted to a Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport
  • Redesignated (APD-62), 5 July 1944
  • Decommission, 28 June 1946, at Green Cove Springs FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1966
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 5 March 1968
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t
    Length 306' ovl.
    Beam 36' 10"
    Draft 13' 6" (max)
    Speed 24 kts.
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 186
    Troop Accommodations 162
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, eight single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 boilers 2 shafts, 12,000 shaft horsepower
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    Cofer 175k Cofer (APD-62) underway, date and place unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II web site
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    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Contact Person
    Contact: Jim Snellen (Historian)
    Address: 1544 Mayfield Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32259.
    Remarks: Submitted by Irwin J. Kappes
    (Editor, Battle of Ormoc Bay Association Newsletter)
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
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