OBERRENDER DE 344

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    John C. Butler Class Destroyer Escort
    Keel Laid November 8 1943 - Launched January 18 1944

  1. USS OBERRENDER DE-344
    Commissioned May 11 1944
    Irreparably damaged by Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa May 9 1945
        24 crewmembers killed, wounded, or missing
    Decommissioned July 11 1945
    Stricken July 25 1945 - Sunk as target off Kerama Retto November 6 1945

Naval Covers

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  1. Covers Page 1     (1944)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type 2z

1944-10-06

Registered Official Mail


 

Locy Type 2a

3205 Registered

Pityliu Island
Admiralty Islands
Papua New Guinea

1944-10-06

1st stop off the ship


 

Locy Type 9ef#

Branch 10088

Postal Concentration
Center
Pearl Harbor HI

1944-10-08

2nd stop off the ship


 

Locy Type 9ef#

Branch 10461

Commander in Chief
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor HI

1944-10-08

Last stop

 

Other Information

USS OBERRENDER earned the folowing awards during her Naval career - Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (w/ 3 Battle stars) - World War II Victory Medal.

NAMESAKE - Thomas Olin Oberrender, Jr., born in DuBois, Pa. on 24 September 1906, graduated from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1927. After serving in cruisers Rochester, Tulsa, and Louisville and other ships, he attended postgraduate school from 1934 to 1936, followed by duty in battleship Nevada. Assigned as engineering officer in destroyer Hull in 1938, he became her executive officer the following year. After a brief period of duty ashore he reported on board the new cruiser Juneau in November 1941, when the ship was just fitting out. When she commissioned the following February, he was her engineering officer. Lt. Comdr. Oberrender died 13 November 1942 when Juneau was torpedoed and sunk in action in the Solomon Islands. {DANFS}

 


 

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