FORREST REDNOUR WPC 1129
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Naming Ceremony 27 February 2015 Keel Laid - Launched 7 June 2018 |
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Commissioning. Postmark designed by Wolfgang Hechler. Cachet by Darcy L. Richmond, sponsored by McIntosh Cachets
Other Information
NAMESAKE - Petty Officer 2nd Class Forrest Oren Rednour, USCG (13 May 1923 - 13 June 1943)
Rednour enlisted in the United States Coast Guard at Chicago, Illinois, on 19 June 1941. During the predawn darkness of 3 February 1943, Rednour, wearing a rubber suit to ward off hypothermia, was among the members of the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba WPG-77 who voluntarily subjected themselves to pounding seas and bitter cold in the winter North Atlantic darkness for nearly four hours to rescue survivors from the torpedoed troop transport SS Dorchester. Rednour worked the longest of all retrievers and accounted for the greatest number of survivors, but finally had to quit when his rubber suit became torn.
Rednour perished early on the morning of 13 June 1943 when USCGC Escanaba WPG-77 disintegrated in a massive explosion of undetermined cause in the North Atlantic Ocean off Ivituut, Greenland, with a loss of 101 of the 103 men aboard.
Rednour was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic action during the Dorchester rescue operations of 3 February 1943. Following his death, Rednour was also posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal.
One ship of the US Navy is named in his honor - USS Rednour APD-102
One cutter of the US Coast Guard is named in his honor - USCGC Forrest Rednour WPC-1129.
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