USS Bunch (DE 694)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 694
Built by	Defoe Boat and Marine Works. (Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Oct 1942
Laid down	23 Feb 1943
Launched	29 May 1943
Commissioned	21 Aug 1943
End service	5 Jun 1947
History	Converted to a High-speed Transport at Todd Shipyards, Corp., Brooklyn, New York and redesignated APD-79 on 31 July 1944. Decommissioned 5 June 1947. Laid up in the Reserve Fleet. Stricken 16 June 1966. Transferred to Taiwan on 12 July 1966 being renamed Lu Shan. Lu Shan was stricken by the Taiwanese Navy in May 1995 and broken up for scrap.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Alfred Alan Campbell, USNR	21 Aug 1943	27 Jun 1944
2	Lt Benjamin Dwight Hyde, USNR	27 Jun 1944	15 Aug 1945
3	Cdr. John Reginald DeSibour, USNR	15 Aug 1945	26 Aug 1945
4	Lt.(jg) Edward Wood Donnally, USNR	26 Aug 1945

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