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APD-79 Bunch
United States Navy fast attack transport
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Buckley - | 1943/02/23 Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich. | 1943/05/29 | 1943/08/21 | 1965
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| Namesake: ARM1/c Kenneth Cecil Bunch *1919/01/21, KIA 42/06/06 VS-42, VS-8 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 44/12/26 | joinPac - Panama Canal | 66 | |||
| 44/12/26 | 45/01/15 | sail from Panama to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 45/01/2?? | 45/03 | sail from P.H. to Eniwetok > Ulithi > Leyte | 66 | ||
| 45/03/21 | 45/05 | Iceber | 52.11 | UDT | 66 |
| 45/04/02 | Iceber | 52.11 | helping damaged Dickerson | 66 | |
| 45/04/26 | 45/04/30 | Iceber | 53.6 | escort (+ William C. Cole, Charles Lawrence and Richard W. Suesens) TransDiv104 Okinawa > Ulithi | 66 |
| 45/05 | convoy duty Okinawa <> Ulithi, Guam | 66 | |||
| 45/05/2? | 45/07/01 | Iceber | Okinawa - | 66 | |
| 45/07/01 | 45/07/24 | sail from Okinawa to west coast | 66 | ||
| 45/07/24 | 45/09/06 | California - overhaul | 66 | ||