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USS Barry (APD-29)
ex
 USS Barry (DD-248) (1920 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Kilo - Tango
 NJKT
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 25 May 1945, Okinawa)
Second Row - Presidential Unit Citation - American Defense Service Medal (with bronze star in lieu of Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal (1)
Third Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (28 wounded, 25 May 1945)
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid Down, 26 July 1919, at New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 28 October 1920
  • Partially Commissioned USS Barry (DD-248), 28 December 1920, LTjg. A. H. Bamberger, USNR, in command
  • Held in reserve commission until fully commissioned, 15 November 1921
  • Decommissioned and assigned to the Rotating Reserve at Norfolk VA, 20 December 1932
  • Recommissioned, 20 June 1933
  • Designated (APD-29), January 1944
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Charleston Navy Yard, 31 December through 17 February 1944
  • During World War II USS Barry was first assigned to the American Theater and then the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater followed by the Asiatic-Pacific Theater participating in the following campaigns:

    American Campaign
    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Task Group 21.14, 27 July to 10 September 1943 Task Group 21.14, 25 September to 9 November 1943 Okinawa Gunto operation, 10 May to 30 June 1945
      Invasion of southern France, 14 August to 2 September 1944  

  • While assigned to Commander South Pacific Force and South Pacific Area USS Barry came under the command of TransDiv Thirteen
  • While assigned to Commander Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet USS Barry came under the command of TransDiv One Hundred-Two, CDR. J.N. Hughes USN (31)
  • Severally damaged by Japanese Kamikaze attack northwest of Okinawa, 25 May 1945, towed to Kerama Rhetto, stripped and decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 21 June 1945
  • Final Disposition, while being towed to sea to be used as a Kamikaze decoy, Barry and USS LSM-59 were sunk by additional Kamikaze attacks, 21 June 1945
  • USS Barry earned the Presidential Unit Citation as a unit of TG 21.14 and four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,130 t.(fl)
    Length 314' 4"
    Beam 30' 8"
    Draft 9' 10"
    Speed 27.7 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 8
    Enlisted 98
    Troop Accommodations
    Officers 8
    Enlisted 144
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 3"/50 cal gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge track
    four depth charge projectors
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO 3025 Bbls
    Diesel 50 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two Westinghouse geared turbines
    two Wheeler-Foster boilers 250psi Sat°
    single Westinghouse Main Reduction Gears
    two 60Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    twin propellers, 26,000shp
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    Barry 75k USS Barry (APD-29) underway, date and location unknown. CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret.
    Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
    Barry
    100402901    		 148k USS Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307337 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Rick Davis
    Barry
    100402904    		 239k USS Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307335 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Rick Davis
    Barry 85k USS Barry (APD-29) underway off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307336 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Barry 84k USS Barry (APD-29) off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, Va.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307333 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Barb Rebold
    Barry
    100402907    		 357k USS Barry (APD-29) off Norfolk, VA., 9 February 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station Norfolk, Va.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-307331 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Barb Rebold
    Greene 131k High-speed Transports (APD) at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, in late 1944. The APDs present, in center, are: USS Greene (APD-36) -- closest to camera; USS Osmond Ingram (APD-35) -- next inboard; USS Barry (APD-29); USS Roper (APD-20); and USS Tattnall (APD-19). At the extreme right is USS Hilary P. Jones (DD-427). This photograph was dated January 1945, but was taken at least a month earlier. Note old fort in the background.
    US Navy photo # 80-G-302954, now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Barry 258k USS Barry (APD-29) at Kerama Retto, 30 May 1945, along side is the tug USS Lipan (ATF-85). She is fitted with a wooden caisson that was crafted to fit over the hole in her hull. This allowed her to be refloated and prepared for her new role. She sank finally on 21 June, while acting as a decoy to lure Kamikazes away from more valuable targets.
    A National Archives and Records Administration. photo from "Fire from The Sky" by Robert C. Stern.    		 Robert Hurst
    LSM-83 51k The hulk of the decommissioned USS Barry (APD-29) moored between USS Lipan (ATF-85) and USS LST-53 at Kerama Rhetto, circa late-May early-June 1945. USS LSM-83 is tied up to the opposite side of USS LST-53. Barry was used as a decoy ship to lure suicide planes into burned out ships and USS Lipan's job was to tow her. Ken Roberts to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
    USS Barry (DD-248 / APD-29)
    Dictionary of American Navy Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR. Hill, Herbert Dudley, USN (USNA 1934)22 September 1943 - 5 September 1944
    02LT. Hand, Clemens Francis, USNR5 September 1944 - 21 June 1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "The Green Dragons" Four-stack APD destroyer-transports in World War Two
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