BEVERLY W REID LPR 119

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.

BEVERLY W. REID DE-722
Redesignated Crosley Class High-speed Transport (APD) July 17 1944
USS BEVERLY W. REID APD-119
Commissioned June 25 1945 - Decommissioned May 5 1947
Recommissioned March 18 1967
USS BEVERLY W. REID LPR-119
Redesignated Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR) July 1 1969
Decommissioned November 14 1969

Struck from Naval Register September 15 1974
Sold August 18 1975 for scrap

Naval Covers

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Beverly W. Reid Covers Page 1 (1945-69)

Postmarks

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USPO Duplex

Neville Island, PA

1944-03-11

ANCS Pittsburgh Crew Launching

1st Commissioning June 25 1945 to May 5 1947

Locy Type
2(n) Oct 27, 1945

1945-10-27

As APD-119. Navy Day "Victory Cancel"

Locy Type
2(n)

1946-05-13

As APD-119

2nd Commissioning March 18 1967 to November 14 1969

Locy Type
FDC 2(n+)

1967-03-18

As APD-119

Locy Type
LDPS 2(n+)

1969-09-18

As LPR-119
Last Day of Postal Service
Note: "Manuscript ship name and wrong hull number (LPD-119) at top left"

Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Beverly William Reid (22 April 1917 - August 24 1942)
Reid enlisted in the Navy on June 17 1935. After completing boot camp, Reid reported on board the aircraft carrier USS LEXINGTON CV-2 on November 28 1935, and remained in that ship for over two years. Reporting to the Naval Air Station (NAS), Pensacola, Fla., on March 25 1938 for flight training as a naval aviation pilot (NAP), he received his wings on March 29 1939. After service with Torpedo Squadron (VT-3), in USS SARATOGA CV-3, Reid was transferred to NAS, Pearl Harbor on August 12 1941. He was serving there when Japanese planes raided Oahu on December 7 1941. Transferred to LEXINGTON and Fighting Squadron (VF-2) two days after Christmas of 1941, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2d Class Reid sailed with that ship as she patroled southwest of Oahu between December 29 1941 and January 16 1942. Having been advanced to the rate of Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1st class by that point, he was transferred to USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 on March 28 1942, along with nine other NAPs, for temporary duty with VF-6, in time for the carrier's departure with TF 16. On April 18 1942, the day of the Halsey-Doolittle Raid, Reid flew with ENTERPRISE’s third combat air patrol (CAP) of the day when lookouts spotted two Japanese guardboats. He and the other seven pilots of the CAP then strafed the enemy vessels, sinking one and forcing the other, NAGATO MARU, to surrender. Having been warranted as a Machinist on April 23, Reid was designated a Naval Aviator on May 5. During the Battle of Midway, he flew three CAP missions on June 4, including one during which his section was vectored over to defend the crippled USS YORKTOWN CV-5. Awarded The Navy Cross for carrying out aggressive attacks on two Japanese torpedo planes on the 4th, he was credited with two confirmed “kills.” He also took part in strafing the Japanese destroyers ASASHIO and ARASHIO as they assisted the crippled heavy cruisers MOGAMI and MIKUMA on the 6th. Reid, commissioned an Ensign on July 23 1942, took part in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on August 24 1942. He flew one of the 27 VF-6 planes scrambled for the CAP over TF 17, and, as one of two pilots listed as missing, was probably shot down by a “Zero” in the ensuing action. Ens. Reid, never seen again, was presumed killed in action.

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