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YFD-2

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Yard Floating Drydock:
  • Laid down (date and place unknown)
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Placed in service as YFD-2 (date unknown)
  • During World War II YFD-2 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Placed out of service (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
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    Length unknown
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    Complement unknown
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    YFD-2 110k YFD-2 arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 August 1940, after being towed from New Orleans, LA. It is still marked "U.S. Naval Station New Orleans, La". Osceola (YT-129) is in the right foreground, assisting. One of the other tugs is probably Sunnadin (AT-28). An unidentified destroyer seaplane tender (AVD) is tied up at the Ford Island fuel dock, in the left center. Visible in the distance, moored on the other side of Ford Island, are (from left to right): Yorktown (CV-5), two destroyers, Wright (AV-1) and two light cruisers.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-411134, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    BB-44 California 95k California (BB-44) slowly sinking alongside Ford Island as a result of bomb and torpedo damage, 7 December 1941. Shaw (DD-373) is burning in the floating dry dock YFD-2 in the left distance. Nevada (BB-36) is beached in the left-center distance.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-32456 a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    There is no DANFS history for YFD-2 available at NavSource
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    Last Updated 12 October 2007