USS BALDUCK DE 716

USS Balduck DE 716/APD 132

USS BALDUCK DE 716/APD 132

USN Photo National Archives # 80-6-6371218. From the DESA Archives.

Named for Marine Corporal Remi August Balduck, b. 30 March 1918, Detroit, MI; KIA 9 November 1942, Guadalcanal; posthumous Navy Cross

Type: TEV
Builder: DBC
Keel laid 06/17/44
Launched 10/27/44
Redesignated 07/17/44
Commissioned as APD 05/07/45
First CO: Lt R. T. Newell, Jr.
Decommissioned 05/31/46
Recommissioned 11/05/53
Stricken 07/15/75
Sold 12/06/76

Served in Pacific
Evacuated Vietnamese from Haiphong, Indochina

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