USS Bunch
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USS Bunch (DE-694) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named after Kenneth Cecil Bunch, killed in action on 6 June 1942 while flying as radioman-gunner in an SBD Dauntless dive bomber during the Battle of Midway. Bunch was a native of Norman County, Minnesota.
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USS Bunch (DE-694), running trials in Lake Huron on 25 July 1943 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Bunch |
Namesake | Kenneth Cecil Bunch |
Ordered | 9 October 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 23 February 1943 |
Launched | 29 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 21 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1946 |
Reclassified | APD-79, 31 July 1944 |
Stricken | 1 April 1964 |
Honors and awards | 2 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 11 May 1965 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LCVP landing craft (as APD) |
Troops | 162 troops (as APD) |
Complement | 186 |
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