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DE-209 / APD-63 Lloyd

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Juliet - India
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 12 to 15 January 1945) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 26 July 1943 as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston S.C.
  • Launched, 23 November 1943
  • Commissioned USS Lloyd (DE-209), 11 February 1944, LCDR. Peter N. Gammelgard in command
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia PA.
  • Redesignated (APD-63), 5 July 1944
  • During World War II Lloyd was first assigned to the European Theater and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as a unit of Transportation Division 103 where she participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Ormoc Bay landings, 7 December 1944     		Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Palawan Islands landing, Puerta Princessa, 10 March 1945
    Luzon operation
    Mindoro landings, 17 December 1944
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 11 to 12 January 1945     		Borneo operation
    Brunei Bay operation, 28 May to 19 June 1945
    Balikpapan operation, 1 July 1945
    Manila Bay-Bicol operation
    Zambales-Subic Bay landing, 28 February 1945     		.

  • Decommissioned, 1 July 1946 at Green Cove Springs FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Recommissioned, 3 January 1951, LCDR. A. A. Sullivan in command
  • Decommissioned, 18 February 1958 at Charleston S.C.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register. 1 June 1966
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 5 March 1968, to Southern Scrap Material Co., New Orleans, LA., for $30,000
  • Lloyd earned five battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' (oa)
    Beam 36' 10"
    Draft 13' 6" (max)
    Speed 24 kts.
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 186
    Troop Capacity 162
    Boats four LCVP landing craft
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion two GE turbines, (turbo-electric drive), two boilers two shafts, 12,000 shp
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    Lloyd 42k Lloyd (APD-63) underway, date and location unknown. David Girt
    Lloyd 45k Lloyd (APD-63) underway, date and location unknown. Nick Tiberio
    Lloyd 53k Lloyd (APD-63) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    Lloyd 70k Lloyd (APD-63) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    Lloyd 21k Lloyd (APD-63) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    Lloyd 56k Lloyd (APD-63) underway in Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta, circa 1953. Robert Hurst
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    2007 Annual Reunion of the Ormoc Bay Association
    location: Hampton Inn, Savannah, GA.
    Date: 21 to 25 October 2007
    Contact: Sec'y-Treas., William M. Dallam
    Address: 117 Tuscarora St., Harrisburg, PA. 17104
    E-mail: Annual Reunion of the Ormoc Bay Association
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