JAMES E CRAIG DE 201

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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.

    Buckley Class Type TE Destroyer Escort
    Keel Laid April 15 1943 - Launched July 22 1943

  1. USS JAMES E. CRAIG DE-201
    Commissioned November 1 1943 - Decommissioned July 2 1946

    Stricken June 30 1968
    Sunk February 1969 as target off California

 

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. Covers Page 1    (1943-46)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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Date To
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Close-Up Image
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Charleston S.C. Navy Yard
Machine Cancel

1943-07-22

Launching



 

Locy Type
2z

1944-02-12

Ship carried only the Type 2z Device

 

Other Information

Earned 4 Battle Stars (WWII)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 4 stars
WWII Victory Medal
Philippine Liberation Ribbon

NAMESAKE - Named in Honor of Lt. Commander James Edwin Craig USN (October 29 1901 - December 7 1941)
Craig was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack while serving as Damage Control Officer on USS PENNSYLVANIA BB-38

 


 

If you have images or information to add to this page, then either contact the Curator or edit this page yourself and add it. See Editing Ship Pages for detailed information on editing this page.

 


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