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DE-694 / APD-79 Bunch

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom,left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.
  • Launched, 29 May 1943
  • Commissioned USS Bunch (DE-694), 21 August 1943
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport
  • Redesignated (APD-79), 31 July 1944
  • Decommissioned, 31 May 1946, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck form the Naval Register, 1 April 1964
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1965
  • Bunch received two battle stars for her World War II service
    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 Capacity 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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    Bunch 52k Bunch (APD-79) underway, date and place unknown. Hyperwar US Navyin World War II
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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
    2003 Reunion Information
    Date: 8 to 11 September 2003
    Contact: David L. Hibbs, Sr.
    Address: 1126 Roosevelt Ct. Hanover, PA. 17331-5226
    Phone: (717) 637-7723
    E-mail: USS Bunch 2003 Reunion
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
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