USS BARR DE 576 APD 39

USS BARR DE-576/APD-39

Named for Marine Private First Class Woodrow Wilson Barr, b. 30 June 1913,
Keyser, WV; KIA 7 August 1942, Tulagi, Solomons

Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Keel laid 11/05/43
Launched 12/28/43
Commissioned 02/16/44
First CO: Lt Cdr H. H. Love
Redesignated 07/31/44
Decommissioned 07/12/46
3 battle stars

Torpedoed, stern wrecked 05/29/44
Stricken 06/01/60
Target, sunk off Puerto Rico 03/26/63

Unit of CortDiv 60
Carried UDT-13 to Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Transferred over 1,000 POWs to BENEVOLENCE (AH-13)

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006

Photo courtesy of the USN War College