DYESS DD 880

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Gearing Class Destroyer Keel Laid August 17 1944 - Launched January 26 1945 USS DYESS DD-880 Commissioned May 21 1945 USS DYESS DDR-880 Reclassified Radar Picket Destroyer (DDR) March 18 1949 USS DYESS DD-880 Reverted to Destroyer (DD) December 1 1963 Decommissioned February 27 1981 Struck from Naval Register February 27 1981 Sold to Greece July 8 1981 and cannibalized for spare parts

Naval Covers

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1. Dyess Covers Page 1    (1945-68)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type / Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Image

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Post Office Established April 23 1945 - Disestablished March 31 1971

 

Locy Type 2

1953-07-20

As DDR-880

 

Locy Type 2(n) Oct 27, 1945

1945-10-27

"Victory Cancel"

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1947-02-08

As DD-880
Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1948-10-27

As DD-880
Navy Day

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1949-03-17

As DD-880. St. Patrick's Day, cachet by William T. (Duke) Gmahle

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1950-11-10

As DDR-880
175th USMC Birthday
Clint Orr

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1968-09-27

As DD-880
USCS Postmark Catalog lists as Type 2n+ (U S S)...Designation in parenthesis

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u) DDR

1961-05-03

As DDR-880

 

Locy Type 2# (Br. #15793)

1945-10-26

As DD-880

 

Locy Type 9efu

1953-07-07

As DDR-880

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Lieutenant Colonel Aquilla James Dyess, USMCR (January 11 1909 – February 2 1944).
LtCol Dyess was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" as the Commanding Officer of the First Battalion, Twenty-Fourth Marines, Reinforced, Fourth Marine Division, during the World War II Battle of Kwajalein, on Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands on February 2 1944.

 

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