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Swallow (AM 65)

Call sign:
November - Bravo - Quebec - Juliet
Swallow sank 22 April 1945
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 July 1941 by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA; Launched, 6 May 1942; Commissioned Swallow (AM 65), 14 January 1943; Struck by kamikaze plane at Kerama Retto and sank, 22 April 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 2 June 1945; Sunken hulk donated to the government of the Ryukyu Islands, 10 July 1957. Swallow earned two battle stars for World War II service.
Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 2"; Beam 32' 2"; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament two single 3"/50 gun mount, four 20mm mounts, and two dct; Propulsion two 3,118 shp American Locomotive Co. diesel engines, two shafts.
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Passing mail to a destroyer somewhere in the South Pacific. Photo from the September 1943 issue of "All Hands" magazine.
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