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USS Odum (APD-71)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Yankee
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS Odum (APD-71) was transferred to Chile and renamed ACH Serrano (APD-26)
Buckley Class Destroyer Escort / Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down 15 October 1943 as a DE-670, a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Dravo Corp., Neville Island,Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Launched, 19 December 1943
  • Redesignated (APD-71), 27 June 1944
  • Ferried to Orange, TX. for fitting out as a High-speed Transport
  • Commissioned USS Odum (APD-71), 12 January 1945, at Consolidated Steel Corp, Orange TX., LCDR. John A. Comly in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 November 1946, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Moved to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX. at a later date
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1966
  • Sold to Chile, 15 November 1966, under terms of the Military Assistance Program, renamed ACH Serrano (APD-26)
  • Final Disposition, retired from the Chilean Navy in 1984 and scrapped
    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 4 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 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 boilers 2 shafts, 12,000 shaft horsepower
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    Odum 23k USS Odum (APD-71) at anchor, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    ACH Serrano (APD-26)
    Odum 69k Ex-USS Odum (APD-71) in Chilean Naval service as ACH Serrano (APD-26) moored pierside at Puerto Natales, Chile, on the shores of the Ultima Esperanza Fiord, Chilean Patagonia in 1972. Photo by Gabriel González Lillo, MD. Gabriel González Florín
    Odum 53k ACH Serrano (APD-26) moored pierside at Puerto Natales, Chile, on the shores of the Ultima Esperanza Fiord, Chilean Patagonia in 1972. Photo by Gabriel González Lillo, MD. Gabriel González Florín
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