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PCS-1452



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Yoke - Item
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 4 April 1943 by the Tacoma Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA; Launched 28 August 1943; Delivered and commissioned 21 February 1944. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, diesel engines, two shafts.

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PCS-1452 124k PCS-1452 nested beween two unidentified PCS'. Jeanne Trump
PCS-1452 145k PCS-1452 nested beween two unidentified PCS'. Jeanne Trump
PCS-1452 122k 4 April 1945, Okinawa.
PCS-1452 is in the lower left corner of photo
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC 207 486		 Gary Priolo
There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1452.
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