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Entry: 73739 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	CAPT CAROL TURNER
GARY TURNER wrote on February 27, 2010 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: MARINE VETERAN Comments: My uncle was the CO of the Reynolds from 1951 - 1953? I know he was CO when the Reynolds destroyed the train in N Korea in 1952. He passed away in 1992 and is interred at the navy cemetery, Ananoplis MD. He graduated from Ananoplis class of 1941 and sered until 1971. Just came across this blog after researching his naval career. Would like to hear from those that may have served with him. Keywords:

Entry: 69865 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MY DADDY
DONNA HINTON wrote on April 14, 2009 City and State: MONROE GA Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: Keywords: My dad was in the Navy and on the USS Reynolds. I'm looking for anyone who might have known him and have pictures. His name was John Odus Adams. I believe he was on Reynolds around 1942-1945. My email is thinton1@windstream.net. Thank you so much!

Entry: 68887 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	SEARCHING
JACKIE BUCKNER wrote on January 29, 2009 City and State: FORT SMITH AR Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: Looking for anyone that served with Carl T. Wisley. Keywords:

Entry: 67684 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	LOOKING FOR EX-SHIPMATES
DONALD D. AKERS wrote on October 31, 2008 City and State: THE VILLAGES FL Unit: USS MCCOY REYNOLDS Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: Keywords:

Entry: 66118 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	TELL ME ALL YOU KNOW
DAVE LAWLESS wrote on June 18, 2008 City and State: GALVA KS Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: Keywords: 440 uss reynolds

Entry: 62964 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MY DAD
DAVE LAWLESS wrote on November 12, 2007 City and State: GALVA KS Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My dad served on the USS McCoy Reynolds DE-440 in the Korean war as a machinist mate second class from November 1950 to September 1954. He never talked about his service (he was a very proud man) and past away when I was 14 years old leaving a family of six children and widow, he worked hard and died from cancer at the age of 43. His wife, my mother raised us kids and needs alot of credit, but I do not know my dad very well, if anyone served with him please email or write me and tell me anything you can. I am 48 myself so let me know the details, I have waited too long to do this, but you do not know what it would mean to me and my family. Thank You wery much!!! Keywords: USS McCoy Reynolds DE-440

Entry: 62963 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MY DAD
DAVE LAWLESS wrote on November 12, 2007 City and State: GALVA KS Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My dad served on the USS McCoy Reynolds DE-440 in the Korean war as a machinist mate second class from November 1950 to September 1954. He never talked about his service (he was a very proud man) and past away when I was 14 years old leaving a family of six children and widow, he worked hard and died from cancer at the age of 43. His wife, my mother raised us kids and needs alot of credit, but I do not know my dad very well, if anyone served with him please email or write me and tell me anything you can. I am 48 myself so let me know the details, I have waited too long to do this, but you do not know what it would mean to me and my family. Thank You wery much!!! Keywords: USS McCoy Reynolds DE-440

Entry: 61386 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MY FATHER
DAVID JACKSON wrote on June 24, 2007 City and State: KEARNEY NE Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My father was a radioman aboard the McCoy Reynolds. I'm not sure what years his tour of duty was, but I do have information placing him on ship in 1952. His name was Jerome Jackson. He passed away in May of 1982. I have pictures of My father with some other crewmen on an RnR in Hawaii. Would love to hear about that! Anyone knowing my father can email me. Thank you. Keywords:

Entry: 58006 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	LOOKING FOR CREW MEMBER
KASEY MCDOUGAL wrote on July 7, 2006 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: Keywords: I was looking for anyone who knew Jesse Wilburn McDougal He was my grandfather

Entry: 51782 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	THE REAL MCCOY, THE FIGHTIN 440
LARRY G. ROWE wrote on July 1, 2005 City and State: WHITE BEAR LAKE MN Unit: STOREKEEPER Service or Relationship: OTHER Comments: From Great Lakes, Company 427, under E. L. Ames, Company Commander, in early 1951, many of us went to San Diego to take the Fightin 440 out of mothballs. Of the many going to San Diego, via rail on the Santa Fe, I do remember Donald Carter and Harry Rome. I am foggy on all the others. I remember many from Great Lakes, but not clear on who all went to the 440. My one memory beyond what Norm Larson wrote about, before, is the time we knocked out the big cannon at Wonson Harbor. The Harbor was like a water wing, with a narrow passage between the two bodies. Ships going through the passage had to slow down. Miles back up in the mountains the enemy had a cannon they would roll out of a cave to shoot at the slow moving ships. I was in the CIC room on radar, giving coordinates. They rolled out the cannon and the shell passed over the ship making a big splash a few feet away. The 440 responded in seconds, and we got that sucker. I was reading out coordinates second by second. Somewhere I have photo's of that. I also remember the dark night we picked up two Koreans in a Sanpan, not knowing if they were friend or foe. I ended up with their Korean Flag, and kept it in a peanut can, for years. The only fear I experienced was doing on-deck patrol in the dark of night, as we patroled the coast, all lights off. The imagination ran wild. As we spent months and years at Pearl Harbor, and all the pineapple the Navy purchased, in all the forms, I could not eat anything pineapple until I hit 60. Also, in that rough storm in the South China Sea, a case of vinegar broke open and drenched my office storeroom. The vinegar stench lasted forever. I couldn't stand vinegar until I hit 60. I had my first drink in Sasebo, Japan, where I pursued a White Russian dancer. Didn't succeed! Keywords: USS 440 McCoy Reynolds

Entry: 51374 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MCCOY REYNOLDS DE-440 1951-1953 QUARTERMASTER
NORMAN LARSON wrote on June 6, 2005 City and State: CHANDLER AZ Unit: USS MCCOY REYNOLDS DE-440 1951-1953 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: I served aboard the Reynolds 51-53, we made a six months tour in 1952 going to Japan, did the Formosa patrol routine, three legs, north, center and south. We then got RNR at a super place near Mt Fugi. The town was called Fugi View where we stayed for ten to fourteen days and it was great. We spent thirty days in Wonsan, Korea area as a pick up ship for downed pilots and shooting star shells over two Islands that had Marines on them. We had to light the area up so they could see if any gooks were coming out. We then went to Hong Kong and dropped anchor for thirty days. I think we were called a radio transfer station for that thirty days. It was good duty, had a ball. I remember when we went to Saseboe, Japan and we were there for a few days. About twenty of the ships crew chartered a bus and we took a 120 mile trip to Nagasaki. The roads were dirt and gravel washboard. By the time we got there my kidneys were coming out of my rectum, but we survived. Nagasaki was still a total wasteland and I just looked it over from the hills, no radiation for this guy. We operated with a Task Group which included a Battle Wagon, I think the New Jersey and an Air Craft Carrier, I can not remember which one. There were several Cruisers, Destroyers and of course DE's. We were operating off the Battle Wagons Port Bow doing ASW pinging with Sonar. It was an awesome sight to see the Wagon do a nine gun broadside at whatever they were shooting at. We got into a Typhoon While we were heading to Japan at one point and we were stuck in this storm for about five or six days and it was a living hell. I was steering the ship during this time and we had the two 36" carbon arc signal lights shinning straight ahead so we could see the size and direction of the swells. They looked like they were 100' high. We took a 47 degree roll at one time when we got broadsided by a wave and we all held on with all our might and the Reynolds came back up and righted it's self. The swells were so big that we were like s submarine going through them and they were breaking clear over the command bridge. When the storm finally blew past us we had no idea where we were. We had 60 fathoms of water under the keel and it was yellow from the storm. With the sun out we were able to get a sun line and started heading back to Japan. That night we got a star fix and man we were way off from where we started. We made it back to Japan and ported for a good rest and resupply. Well, there is my book. If anyone remembers any of the happenings or if not, give me a call, send and email. Let's talk. PS,when we got back to Pearl Harbor I was sent to Quartermasters school at Bainbridge, MD for three months After I had been back for a short while the Navigations Officer, Allen Stack, Olympic backstroke champion, asked me if I wanted to try out for a Navy Swimming Team that was being Put together. I jumped at the chance and made the team as a sprinter. Allen Stack and I were transfered off the ship and I then worked at ComServPac in the operations office and swam every day. This was real tuff duty. I think I was swimming at Waikiki Beach every day for the next two years. Send me an email, call on the phone or write a letter, let's talk. See Ya, Norm. Keywords: I've said it all in the comments section below.

Entry: 50827 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	SERVED 1951 THRU 1953
JOHN BIANCO wrote on May 13, 2005 City and State: LAS CRUCES NM Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: i was the baker on board and was onthe ship over three years and was transfered to the uss philip to go to the marshall islands forthe nuclear bombtest and was caught in the worst distaster of any bomb test because of the fall out we got the heaviest dose of the fallout well i guess that is all i can say. Keywords: from pearl harbor to korea and around the china sea to hong kong

Entry: 42615 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	SOM2/C
WILLIAM (BILL) BONDANZA wrote on April 26, 2004 City and State: HILTON HEAD IS SC Unit: AWS- SONAR Service or Relationship: - Comments: Keywords: SERVED ABOARD USS MCCOY REYNOLDS DE440 MAY2,1944- APRIL 9TH 1946. AWARDED 5 BATTLE STARS INCLUDING THE SINKING OF JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-37 ON NOV. 19,1944.ANXIOUS TO HEAR FROM OTHER SHIPMATES.

Entry: 35777 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	SERVICE 1955-1956
JESS LONG wrote on July 26, 2003 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: I served on the "Real McCoy" from Oct, 1955 til Aug. 1956, when she went back to the states for de-commissioning. Any of the old shipmates around? Keywords: USS McCoy Reynolds

Entry: 31301 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	DESCENDANT OF MCCOY REYNOLDS
KATHY NEWSOM wrote on January 16, 2003 City and State: GRAND MARSH WI Unit: Service or Relationship: - Comments: I am a descendant of McCoy Reynolds please notify me Keywords:

Entry: 18541 USS MCCOY REYNOLDS (DE-440)	MY GRANDPA
CARL LAWLESS wrote on August 7, 2001 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My grandpa was a crew member of the DE 440 McCoy Reynolds. He passed away before I was born so I am trying to find some information and or pictures of the ship and crew members who knew my grandpa. He worked on the engines or something to do with them. He was Carl Lawless. If you knew him or have any information or pictures of the ship or him or anything, please e-mail me at Papasmurf_mk@hotmail.com Thank You Keywords:

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