USS Bunch (DE-694)
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Construction started | February 23, 1943 |
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Launched | May 29, 1943 |
Length | 93 m |
Beam | 11 m |
Boats & landing craft carried | LCVP |
Builders | Defoe Shipbuilding Company |
Bay City | |
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ID | 3065161 |
About USS Bunch (DE-694)
USS Bunch (DE-694) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named after Kenneth Cecil Bunch, killed in action on 6 June 1942 while flying as radioman-gunner in an SBD Dauntless dive bomber during the Battle of Midway. Bunch was a native of Norman County, Minnesota.