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USS Burdo (APD-133)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Echo - Golf
 NUEG
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia or Europe clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Crosley Class High-speed Transport:
  • Authorized as (DE-717)
  • Laid down, 26 July 1944 as (APD-133) at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.
  • Launched, 25 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Burdo (APD-133), 2 June 1945
  • During World War II USS Burdo was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • USS Burdo was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 20 to 26 September 1945 and in the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater from 20 January to 9 May 1954
  • Decommissioned, 28 February 1958, at Charleston, S.C.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 April 1966
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 30 March 1967, to Southern Scrap Material Co., New Orleans, LA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306'
    Beam 37'
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 12-15 Officers, 189-192 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 12 Officers, 150 Enlisted
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements
    6 1/4-ton trucks
    2 1-ton trucks
    4 ammunition carts
    4 pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    1 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    3 twin 40 mm gun mounts
    6 single 20 mm gun mounts
    2 depth charge tracks
    Propulsion
    2 Combustion Engineering "D" Express type boilers
    2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive)
    2 shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000
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    Burdo 100k Newspaper photo of the burial ceremony of PFC Roland Burdo USMC, for whom the USS Burdo (APD-133) was named. Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 68k Burdo (APD-133) launching ceremony at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI., 25 November 1944. Mrs Ida Botts, mother of PFC Roland Botts USMC.
    De Foe Shipbuilding photo.    		 Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 70k Burdo (APD-133) launching ceremony at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI., 25 November 1944. From left to right a De Foe representative (name unknown), Senior Naval Officer, probably the Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding at De Foe (name unknown), LCDR H. A. Hull, USNR, Commanding Officer, Mrs Botts.
    De Foe Shipbuilding photo    		 Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 64k Burdo (APD-133) launching ceremony at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI., 25 November 1944. From left to right Senior Naval Officer, probably the Navy Supervisor of Shipbuilding at De Foe (name unknown), LCDR H. A. Hull, USNR, Commanding Officer, Mrs Botts.
    De Foe Shipbuilding photo    		 Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 65k Mrs. Ida Botts breaks champagne bottle over the bow of Burdo (APD-133) during launching ceremony at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI., 25 November 1944.
    De Foe Shipbuilding photo    		 Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 63k Burdo (APD-133) launching at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI., 25 November 1944.
    De Foe Shipbuilding photo    		 Dennis Burdo
    Burdo 133k The towboat Tom Sawyer and Burdo (APD-133) entering the Marseilles Lock on the Illinois River, 8 May 1945. Burdo is being moved down the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans for commissioning.
    War Department US Engineers Office, Chicago, IL. photo # 555 from the collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Home of the SS Cobia.    		 Larry Bohn
    Burdo 30k USS Burdo (APD-133) underway, date and location unknown. James A Gregory BTCS USN Ret USS Burdo, April 1955 to December 1957
    Burdo 68k USS Burdo (APD-133) with Japanese Prisoners of War seated on deck, circa September 1945. Peter Fernandez for his father LTjg Joseph A. Fernandez Jr. USS Schmitt
    Burdo 33k USS Burdo (APD-133) anchored at Sasebo, Japan, 20 September 1945. Submitted by Ronald Lambe for William A. King, SoM2/c USS Kline
    Burdo 64k USS Burdo (APD-133) steams into the harbor at Haifa, Israel, 1 November 1965, as units of the 6th Fleet moved in to aid in the evacuation of Americans from the Middle East.
    AP Wirephoto    		 Ron Reeves
    USS Burdo (APD-133)
    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
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