REDNOUR APD 102

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.

Crosley Class High-speed Transport Keel Laid December 30 1943 Launched February 12 1944 as Destroyer Escort DE-592 Redesignated High-speed Transport (APD) July 17 1944 USS REDNOUR APD-102 Commissioned December 30 1944 - Decommissioned July 24 1946 Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group Transferred to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group Struck from Naval Register March 1 1967 ARM CHIHUAHUA B-06 (Mexican Naval Service) Transferred to Mexico December 1969 and renamed ARM JOSE MARIA MORELOS Y PAVON B-06 Renamed 1994 ARM CHIHUAHUA E-20 Name restored (Date unknown) and reclassified Stricken from the Mexican Navy July 16 2001 Fate unknown

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 9# 15191 Branch

1946-03-15

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Other Information

REDNOUR received one battle star for World War II service

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - May 27 1945, Okinawa) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Personnel Awards...
Purple Hearts (3-KIA, 13-WIA, Okinawa, May 27 1945)

NAMESAKE - Forrest Orin Rednour USCG (May 13 1923 - June 13 1943)
Rednour enlisted in the Coast Guard at Chicago June 19 1941. Ship's Cook 2c Rednour was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic action February 3 1943 when he voluntarily subjected himself to pounding seas and bitter cold for nearly 4 hours to rescue survivors from the torpedoed Army Transport DORCHESTER. Realizing the "... danger of being crushed between the rafts and the ship's side, or of being struck by a propeller blade if the engines backed, he swam in under the counter of the constantly maneuvering Coast Guard Cutter ESCANABA and prevented many floating survivors from being caught in the suction of the screws, in one instance retrieving a loaded raft."
Rednour perished when Cutter ESCANABA was sunk on June 13 1943, after being blown to bits by an explosion of undetermined cause" off Ivigtat, Greenland, with a loss of 101 of the 103 men aboard

 

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