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Commanding Officer
USS DENNIS (DE 405)

^{U.S. Navy photograph}

Lieutenant Commander Sigurd Hansen, U.S. Naval Reserve

	Navy Cross
	Bronze Star
	Combat Action Ribbon
	Presidential Unit Citation
	American Defense Service Medal
	American Campaign Medal
	Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
	World War II Victory Medal
	National Defense Service Medal
	Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
	Philippine Liberation Medal
Award Criteria

Short biography of
Commander Sigurd Hansen, U.S. Naval Reserve

Sigurd Hansen was born on ???? in ????.  

Was a tug boat captain before the war.  

USS STADTFELD (DE-29) was laid down for the United Kingdom under the designation BDE-29 on 26 November 1942 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California and was launched on 17 May 1943. Her assignment to the Royal Navy was cancelled and the destroyer escort was redesignated DE-29 on 16 June 1943. She was commissioned in the United States Navy on 26 August 1943, LCDR Sigurd Hansen, USNR, in command.  

LCDR Hansen was assigned as Commanding Officer of USS DENNIS (DE-405) under construction at Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas.  DENNIS was commissioned on March 20, 1944.  

• Samar, with Task Unit 77.4.3
• Navy Cross (for action at Samar)
• Presidential Unit Citation (for action at Samar)
• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa, with Task Unit 52.1.1
• Bronze Star (for action in May 1945)
• DENNIS change of command held on 17 June 1945

He retired as a U.S. Navy ???? in ????  

He died in ???? on ????.

^{Source:  Robert Jon Cox independent research}

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