AVD-12 Gillis
United States Navy seaplane tender (destroyer)
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Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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flushdeck - | Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Div., Quincy, | 1919/05/29 | 1919/09/03 | 1946/01/29
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Namesake: Adm Gillis, Commo Gillis | |||||
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Camouflage: 41: Ms 1, 43: Ms 21 |
WW II combat actions:
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From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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41/12/07 | 42/02 |   | ScoutForPac/PatWing4 | Kodiak |   66  114  |
42/02/09 | 42/04? |   |   | PSNY - overhaul |   66  |
42/05/26 |   |   | 8.1 |   |   85  |
42/06/03 |   |   | 8.1 | Dutch Harbor |   85  |
42/06/09 |   |   | 8.1 | arrived Adak to tender PatWing4 attacks on Attu & Kiska |   81  |
42/06/11 | 42/06/13 |   | 8.1 | Nazan Bay, Atka |   81  |
42/07/20 |   |   | 8.1 | attacked by planes off Adak |   66  |
42/08 |   |   | 8.1 |   |   81  |
42/09 | 44/04/19 |   |   | Aleutians |   66  |
42/12/17 |   |   |   | Adak - recieved sick men from S-35 |   66  |
44/04/2? | 44/06 |   |   | PSNY - overhaul |   66  |
44/06/13 | 44/11 |   |   | San Diego - plane guard duty |   66  |
44/12/07 |   |   |   | damaged - rammed by AO s/s Gulf Star 40 nm off Makapu Point, Oahu |   85  |
44/12/08 | 45/02/20 |   |   | P.H. - plane guard duty for CVE Makassar Strait |   66  |
45/03 | 45/04/28 | Iceber | 50.5 |   |   66  86  |
45/04/28 | 45/05 | Iceber |   | sail Okinawa > Guam > San Pedro Bay, Leyte |   66  |
45/06/24 | 45/06/29 | Iceber |   | escort Wake Island from Guam to Okinawa |   66  |
45/06/29 | 45/07/03 |   |   | escort Wake Island from Okinawa to Guam |   66  |
45/07/03 | 45/07/08 |   |   | Guam |   66  |
45/07/08 | 45/07/28 |   |   | sail Guam > San Pedro, California |   66  |
45/07/28 | 45/10 |   |   | San Pedro, California |   66  |