USS Burdo DE 717 APD 133

USS BURDO (DE-717/APD-133)

Named for Marine Private Ronald Allen Burdo, b. 24 July 1920, Cheboygan, MI;
KIA 7 August 1942, Gavutu, Solomon Islands

Type: TEV
Builder: DBC
Keel laid 07/26/44
Launched 11/25/44
Commissioned as APD 06/02/45
First CO: Lt Cdr Hadlai A. Hull (3)
Decommissioned unknown, still operating in 1964
Stricken 04/01/66
Sold 03/30/67

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