Speed, 32.5 Knots, Crew 868. Of seven missing, three were subsequently rescued. CVE-27 U.S.S. The first USS THE SULLIVANS was launched in San Francisco, California on April 4, 1943. Suwannee CVE-27 during World War II. While the Japanese Mobile Force sailed from Japan and drew the bulk of Admiral Halsey's 3d Fleet to the north, the Japanese 2d Striking Force, attempted to force the Surigao Strait from the south. Reciprocating engines, single screw, 2,800 hp. Other 14 officers and men were also injured. Those who Lt. Walter B. Burwell, MC, USNR, a medical officer on USS Suwannee when it was struck by two Japanese suicide (Kamikaze) aircraft [NHC: oral history] For additional photos, see the Main Page. Then it was back to Operation Magic Carpet, on 4 December. On 16 June 1945, she headed for San Pedro Bay in Leyte Gulf. Rikihisa Matsuji, commanding) on the surface. The two planes erupted upon contact, Beidelman and his two crewmen perishing in a fiery instant. This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The carrier reentered San Pedro Bay, on 6 July, and spent the next month there. "At 1042, Thursday 24 May 1945 TBM-3 [Avenger] Bureau Number 68368 The project was subsequently canceled and in May 1961, her hulk was resold to the J.C. Berkwit Company, also of New York City. (NARA) photo, # 80-G-270614. USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68) continues to carry on the fighting Sullivan sprit with the motto: We Stick Together. USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68) recently underwent a massive and expensive Ballistic Missile Defense upgrade, making her one of the few elite destroyers capable of intercepting and destroying hostile exo-atmospheric intercontinental ballistic missile tracks. 1 206 BELL, John Edward Machinist's Mate First Class. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website? 0 users currently logged in and 86 visitors active. Photograph released 20 August 1945. She floated for another 10 minutes, bow in the air; then sank, taking 116 of her crew with her. USS Suwannee CVE 27 WWII USS Takanis Bay CVE 89 WWII USS Tarawa CV 40 1946 USS Tarawa CV 40 1948-49 USS Tarawa CV 40 1951-52 USS Tarawa CVA 40 1953 . Strange USN (Ret.) National Archives and Records Administration Suwannee remained in reserve at Boston for the next 12 years. Photograph: 7 April 1943. Problems and site related matters, E-mail Webmaster, This page was created by Paul Yarnall and is maintained by Fabio Pea, National Archives & Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, National The auxiliary carrier transited the Panama Canal, on 1112 December, and arrived at New Caledonia, on 4 January 1943. She was finally scrapped in Bilbao, Spain, in June 1962. ):553' x 114' 3" / 168.6 x 34.8 meters Armor:None Power plant:4 boilers (450 psi); 2 steam turbines; 2 shafts; 13,500 shp (design) Speed:18+ knots Endurance:23,920 nm @ 15 knots (with 4,780 tons of oil fuel) Two previous ships had been named Suwanee, an alternate spelling: (Map NS0302736 by Karl Musser, courtesy of Wikipedia. Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349243. Survey.). Disembarking three more passengers at Bayonne, N.J., on the 21st, Suwannee sailed for Hampton Roads the next day. Artwork details the dangers Flight deck poster made by an AMM, B.L. All Rights Reserved. Twenty minutes later, completely immobilized in all departments, the ship was ordered abandoned. HullNumber.com takes your privacy seriously. Add yours! Islands, Philippines, in advance of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Suwannee provided air support for the assault forces at Leyte Gulf with antisubmarine and combat air patrols and strikes against Japanese installations ashore. Approximately 8 minutes after the enemy was engaged, Walke was hit. At the same time, she became the target of a cruiser off her starboard bow and a destroyer which had crossed her bow and was passing down her port side. USS Suwanee or Suwannee may refer to one of these United States Navy ships: . off Samar, Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944). Then on to Guam, arriving at 17:00, on 29 October, to load approximately 35 planes, for a total complement of around 70 planes, then on to Pearl Harbor. No hits had been received below the waterline. USS SUWANNEE (CVE-27) Crew Roster UNDERWAY! In part because of the extent of damage suffered during the first kamikaze attacks of the war, much of the information about the Suwannee, and of what her crew and air groups endured, was classified for several decades. SUWANNEE CVE 27 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER 2010 #1 Editor's Note Association Officers President Charles Casello Vice-President Bill Hunter Secretary/Treasurer Norm Jennewein President's Message I want to take a moment for a personal note. (Place your cursor over any of the ribbons at the top, the battle stars at left, or the Suwannee image to see a description. So he and I restocked our first aid bags with morphine syrettes, tourniquets, sulfa, Vaseline, and bandages, commandeered a fire extinguisher and made our way forward, dodging flames along the main deck. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. (CVE-27). All Rights Reserved. After short stops at Purvis Bay, in the Solomons, and at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, the escort carrier headed for New Guinea. Gwin, which had been firing illumination shells toward the earlier gunfire exchange, came into the action in time to sight the cruiser Nagara and 4 destroyers closing in. ARM1c James Joseph Joyce was critically Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships 1 207 A week later, she put into Espiritu Santo, for four days. Jim Joyce (far right) and Friends . A6M5 Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter Model 52), piloted by Tamisaku Katsumata, during the first At the bottom of every email sent by HullNumber is an UNSUBSCRIBE link. The ship reached Saipan around 15:00, on 28 October, and stayed just long enough, 15 hours, to load stores and 400 troops. ALL HANDS Article Title. 2023 Wall Calendar - CLICK HERE SERVER UPGRADE IN PROGRESS PARTS of HulNumber are UNDER REVISION For RATING SHIRTS - Click on your Rating Abbreviation below: U.S.S. # 80-G-30228. John M. De Vane, Jr. 29 March 1946, Cmdr. In 1942, she was converted to a Sangamon-class escort carrier. Renamed Suwannee (AO-33), the ship was commissioned "in ordinary", an inactive status, on 9 July 1941, then placed in commission, on 16 July 1941. At 1100 while conducting evasive maneuvering (zigzagging) in company with 2 US cruisers and 3 destroyers, Japanese submarine launches torpedoes at US force striking Juneau on port side near the previous hit. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. An enemy battleship was then sighted and taken under fire, initial range 2,200 yards. A Zeke crashed Suwannees flight deck and careened into a VT-60 TBM, piloted by Lt. F. W. Beidelman, Jr., A-V(N), USNR, which had just been recovered only 30 seconds before. Photographed by USS Suwannee (CVE-27) aircraft. granddaughter of Albert Leo Sullivan. care.". Landing Procedure," USS Suwannee CVE-27, Serial 065, 29 May 1945.). Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Back to 1st page. Because of bad weather they did not arrive in Okinawa until 21 December. Their only escape was to leap aflame into the sea, but some were trapped so that they were incinerated before they could leap. USS Suwannee (CVE 27) Escort carrier of the Sangamon class Commands listed for USS Suwannee (CVE 27) Please note that we're still working on this section and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War. The Japanese force had been dispersed and within minutes of the battleship-cruiser encounter, enemy destroyers, edging along the southern shore of Savo, entered the fray. While moored between two buoys with two .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1+14 inches (32mm) steel cables and an 8 inches (20cm) hawser both bow and stern, she lost all contact with the stern buoy and moved dangerously close to shore. Clinton McKellar, and loaded six 77-foot Electric Boat Co. (ELCO) torpedo boats: PT-20, PT-21, PT-22, PT-23, PT-24, and PT-25 (2426 August) The oiler and her passengers and deck cargo began their voyage when she stood out on 26 August. (CVE-27) HELL. Kamikaze attack in history (Battle Soon after, Preston, preparing her torpedoes, was struck. marking around its national insignia. Joseph J. Clark 24 September 1942, Capt. and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349414. Strange USN (Ret.) Suwannee was much farther south as an element of Rear Adm. Thomas Spragues Taffy 1. Air Raids in the Pacific, 1 July 1945. Her hulk was sold to the Isbrantsen Steamship Company, of New York City, on 30 November 1959, for conversion to merchant service. D. Sample, USN, presents Bronze Star to Lieutenant Commander James C. Longino, who also received SHIPS CREW. Branch. Earl E. Hartman, USNR. By 30 March 1944, she was in the vicinity of the Palau Islands as the Fifth Fleet subjected those islands to two days of extensive bombing raids. Naval Academy, The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members, Historic Former U.S. Navy Bases and Stations, The African American Experience in the U.S. Navy, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Navy, Contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Navy, The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet, Navy Underwater Archaeology Return Program, Annual Navy History and Heritage Awards - Main, Research Permits for Sunken & Terrestrial Military Craft, Scanning, Copyright & Citation Information, Obtain Duplications of Records and Photos. HullNumber.com does not share your information. The enemy battleship joined the cruiser and the destroyer in firing on San Francisco, whose port 5-inch battery engaged the destroyer but was put out of action except for one mount. On 19 June, as the Battle of the Philippine Sea began to unfold, Suwannee was one of the first ships to draw enemy blood when one of her planes flying combat air patrol attacked and sank the Japanese submarineI-184. However, by dawn, she was back in formation on the starboard quarter of USS San Francisco. On 19 June 1944, as the Battle of the Philippine Sea began to unfold, Suwannee was one of the first ships to draw enemy blood when one of her TBM-1C Avengers of VT-60, accompanied by an F6F-3 on anti-submarine patrol, spotted the Saipan-bound Japanese submarine I-184 (Lt.Cmdr. Looking for US Navy memorabilia? the National Archives and Records Administration At 0740 on the 25th, Taffy 1 was jumped by land-based planes from Davao in the first deliberate suicide attack of the war. She stopped at Pearl Harbor overnight (1920 November 1944) and arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash., on the 26th. San Francisco swung left while her main battery continued to fire on the battleships which, with the cruiser and the destroyer, continued to pound San Francisco. Just after noon on the 26th, another group of kamikazes jumped Taffy 1. Chief Engineman. SUWANNEE (CVE-27) HELL U.S.S. On 12 October, the escort carrier got underway from Manus, in Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Escort Carrier Group to provide air support for the landings at Leyte Gulf. Upon detecting the Japanese force Sterett and her colleagues increased speed changed course and threaded their way into the enemy formation. The ship sported the shamrock of Ireland on her forward stack and sailed into World War II with 23 crew members named Sullivan. The ships had entered Nagasaki Harbor by 15 September while Allied prisoners of war (New Zealand) were taken on board the hospital ship Haven. She provided air support for the assault forces with antisubmarine and combat air patrols and strikes against Japanese installations ashore. ), Click on "Links" at left, then "The Suwannee" to access color video of the USS Suwannee at anchor. Navy Unit Records Research. Thanks VetFriends. Crew List main page| Suwannees work at Argentia would earn her the American Defense Service Medal (1622 November 1941). a Japanese suicide plane streaks out of clouds in an 80-degree dive. USS Ashtabula (AO-51) USS Aucilla (AO-56) USS Cacapon (AO-52) USS Caliente (AO-53) USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) USS Canisteo (AO-99) USS Chemung (AO-30) USS Chenango (CVE-28) USS Chicopee (AO-34) USS Chikaskia (AO-54) USS Chipola (AO-63) USS Chiwawa (AO-68) USS Chukawan (AO-100) USS Elokomin (AO-55) USS Enoree (AO-69) USS Escalante (AO-70) His bomb compounded the fracture when it exploded between the flight and hangar decks, tearing a 25-foot gash in the latter and causing a number of casualties. Dates are for carrier involvement, not necessarily the dates for the entire operation. On 20 August, she was redesignated an "Auxiliary Carrier", ACV-27, and was recommissioned as such on 24 September 1942, Captain Joseph J. Clark in command. She was re-designatedfor the final timeto an escort aircraft carrier (helicopter) CVHE-27, on 12 June 1955. Laffey lashed out at the enemy with gunfire and torpedoes. Name of the crew member ? Find Your Shipmates . USS SUWANNEE (CVHE-27) Crew Links. Suwannee, much farther south as an element of Taffy 1. did not participate in this surface engagement however her problems came from another quarter at 0740 when Taffy 1 was attacked by land-based planes from Davao in the first suicide attack of the war. During this time Suwannee was transferred from the US 9th Fleet to the 5th Fleet. Consequently, while she herself did not participate in the running surface battle off Samar, her air group TBMs and F6Fs carried out persistent attacks on Japanese capital ships. To honor the five Sullivan brothers, the Navy has named two destroyers, USS THE SULLIVANS. USS Brooklyn (CL 40) and USS Suwannee (ACV 27) underway, with the amphibious convoy, en route to North Africa, early November 1942. Originally classified as an "Aircraft Escort Vessel", AVG-27, on 14 February 1942, she was reclassified an "Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier", ACV-27, 20 August 1942, before finally being classified as an "Escort Carrier", CVE-27, 15 July 1943. On 13 November, she departed to participate in the Gilbert Islands operation. Registration and communicating with shipmates at Hullnumber.com is FREE FOREVER. Heritage Center Open Everyday: 9:30am - 5:00pm, Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's, Honoring the Men & Women of the Sea Services, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004. The USS Suwannee was a member of the Sangamon class of escort aircraft carriers. Just after noon on 26 October, another group of kamikazes jumped Taffy 1. Before the Japanese destroyer could fire a single shot at Sterett, she was lifted from the water by exploding torpedoes and rapidly sank. Markay was laid down on 3 June 1938, at Kearney, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., under a Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 5); launched on 4 March 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Marguerite Vickery (ne Blanchard), wife of Howard L. Vickery; delivered to the Keystone Tankship Corporation, and operated by that company until acquired by the Navy, on 26 June 1941. Photograph: 7 April 1943. US Navy Crew List - Reunite with old Navy Buddies - 346432 entries available online. This trip was to be a non-stop return to Okinawa, to pick up 1,500 troops on an overnight stop, and then return to Seattle. On 24 and 25 October 1944, the Japanese launched a major surface offensive from three directions to contest the Leyte Gulf landings. They once again anchored in Wakayama, on 13 October, for about two days and then headed north to Tokyo, arriving on the evening of 18 October. Farther out heavier Japanese ships were preparing to join in. Pilots of Figther Squadron (VF) 40 "Flying Boars" scoring "kills" for record of USS Suwannee On 6 February 1946, she was assigned to the berthing area at the Boston [Mass.] (ACV-27), circa late 1942 or early 1943. It has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. A muster revealed 2 officers and 56 sailors missing (some of whom were recovered subsequently). Converted to an aircraft carrier at Newport News, Va. Reclassified as an "Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier" and redesignated ACV-27, 20 August 1942. CVE-27 ALL HANDS Articles. This list is in development, so if you don't see the unit or vessel you're looking for, click on any unit name below and type in the correct unit/vessel name in the form page. on flight deck during flight operations. flight deck air traffic controller, Albert L. Tomsic, (Serial Number 618 10 62), to remember the horrible You can help improve our commands section Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel . David Edward Anderson But others trapped below and aft of the forecastle area found themselves under a curtain of fire from aviation gasoline pouring down from burning planes on the flight deck above. On 21 September, Suwannee departed Nagasaki, and remained at sea until she made a quick seven-hour stop at the outer harbor of Nagasaki before heading toward Kobe. Seattle Branch of the National Archives photo. SUWANNEE. Photographed by USS Suwannee (CVE-27) aircraft. Strange USN (Ret.) Veteran C. Young. The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Suwannee (CVE 27). Crew members of Suwannee were given shore leave during their stay and observed the devastation of ground zero first hand. 0 users currently logged in and 60 visitors active. I had a great time and intend to go again next year. Comments, Suggestions or Image submissions, E-mail Carrier Information Home; About HullNumber; Before you Register; . Just before 0700 on the 25th, one of Kadashan Bays (CVE-76) planes reported a Japanese force of four battleships, eight cruisers, and numerous destroyers. Keystone Tankship Corp., in turn delivered the vessel at Baltimore, Maryland. (NARA), # 80-G-349435. At 0125 on the 13th, the enemy force was discovered about 27,000 yards to the northwest and the US task group maneuvered to intercept. United States National Archives, Photo #80-G-30228. Flight deck poster made by an AMM, B.L. We shall hold it as a duty to see that are given clothing, food, shelter, and medical Her gunners soon shot down another enemy plane, then bore down on a third circling in the clouds at about 8,000ft (2,400m). HullNumber.com does not share your information. They hit the enemy, but he rolled over, dove at Suwannee and crashed into her at 08:04 about 40ft (12m) forward of the after elevator, opening a 10ft (3.0m) hole in her flight deck. After deployment in Korea, where she earned two battle stars, the Cuban blockade, and the rescue efforts for the sub Thresher, she was decommissioned on January 7, 1965. At about 0200, San Francisco trained her guns on a second battleship. With the Japanese retiring toward Savo Island, Sterett, her after guns and starboard torpedo tubes out of commission, began to withdraw. Please click on one of the unit names below to request research assistance in locating U.S. On 2 October, Suwannee Captain Charles C. McDonald and Rear Admiral William Sample, who headed COMCARDIV 22 on board Suwannee, took off in a Martin PBM Mariner to maintain their flight qualifications and never returned. Your ORIGINAL HOMETOWN and State are asked for because that confirms who you are in your shipmate's memories. The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Suwannee (CVE 27). Dimensions (wl):525' x 75' x 30' 7.5" (full load) / 160 x 22.9 x 9.3 meters Dimensions (max. BOBBITT, Edgar Solon Electrician's Mate Second Class. In the Pacific, all the 1,430,000 Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine personnel and the 1,360,000 Army people, on 1 November, except those in occupation units are scheduled to be returned by June. (NARA), photo # 80-G-270618. Ens. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. For their November participation in Operation Magic Carpet they were part of a much larger contingency of ships. suicide plane streaks out of clouds in an 80-degree dive. Port quarter aerial view of USS Suwannee (CVE-27) underway, March 1943. Hostilities ended on 15 August 1945, but Suwannee remained at Okinawa until 2 September; then headed back to the United States. Monteau points to trophy flags. USS Suwannee (CVE-27), was built as the civilian oiler Markay, in 1939, before being acquired by the US Navy, in 1941, and renamed Suwannee (AO-33), after the tradition of naming fleet oilers after rivers. There are currently no images of USS Suwannee Renamed Suwannee (AO-33), the ship was commissioned in ordinary [an inactive status] on 9 July 1941, then placed in commission on 16 July 1941, Cmdr. During that span of time, she visited Guadalcanal, Efate, and Espritu Santo in addition to New Caledonia. Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349249. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are 0 crew members registered for the USS Suwannee (CVE 27). Of the 115 crewmembers that survived the explosion on the ship and made it into the water, only 10 men were ultimately rescued. Her first assignment was close air support for the invasion troops; but, within a few days, she settled down to a routine of neutralizing the kamikaze bases at Sakishima Gunto. On 28 October, the carrier was placed in a reserve status with the 16th Fleet, at Boston, and just over two months later, on 8 January 1947, she was placed out of commission. Cimarron/List 1 Class: Displacement: 24,830 tons Length: 553' Beam: 75' Draft: 32' Speed: 18 knots Armament: 4 5"/38 DP, 4x2 40mm, 4x2 20mm Complement: Capacity: 146,000 barrels Geared turbines engines, twin screws, 30,400 hp Maritime Commission T3-S2-A1type Chicopee Class: She was finally scrapped in Bilbao, Spain, in June 1962. Prepared by CAPT R.O. Survivors whoo had previously abandoned ship reboarded the hulk and rescued eight men still aboard and alive, five of whom lived after reaching land. the flight deck during launchings. (AO-33: displacement 7,500; length 553'0"; beam 75'0"; draft 31'7"; speed 18.0 knots; complement 380; armament 1 5-inch, 4 .50-caliber machine guns; class Cimarron; type T3-S2-A1). She had difficulty overtaking the rest of her force because of her damaged steering gear and the necessity to reduce speed periodically to control the blaze on her after deck. The Sullivan brothers, Joseph, 24; Francis,27; Albert, 20; Madison, 23 and George, 28 from Waterloo, Iowa died in the sinking of the USS JUNEAU (CL 52). Access 4,000+ articles at: ALL HANDS INDEX. The ship had taken 45 hits. Suwannee was much farther south as an element of Rear Admiral Thomas Sprague's "Taffy 1". As the order to abandon ship was passed, a violent explosion ripped the destroyer apart; and she sank immediately. Guy A. Sabin, A-V(N), USNR, attacked, dropping four 325-pound depth bombs along the axis of the enemy Type KD7 boat, and scored at least two direct hits that sent her, and her 97 souls, to the bottom. 1 205 Charles C. McDonald 2 September 1945, Cmdr. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives The concentrated American destroyers were now central targets. Following two voyages from Espritu Santo, one to Tulagi and the other to Kwajalein, Suwannee arrived off Saipan in mid-June 1944. A Zero crashed into Suwanee's flight deck at 1240 and careened into a torpedo bomber which had just been recovered. National Archives & Records Administration photo, # 19-N-24297. The destroyer unleashed her torpedoes and using all her firepower, machine-gunned the battleship's bridge. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. The USS Suwannee also created their own chapter ! Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo # 80-G-39316. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Naval Hospital, Balboa, and an MM2c to the gunboat Erie, on 6 October (in addition to Capt. Carrier plane strike on Balikpapan, Borneo. Login| On 24 February, she headed east again and arrived at Pearl Harbor, on 2 March for a two-week stay. SUWANNEE (CVE-27) Crew Roster Suwannee (and her embarked air units for the pertinent periods: VGS-27, VGF-27, VGS-30, VGF-28, CVEG-60 and CVEG-40) received the Presidential Unit Citation and 13 battle stars for her World War. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Her hulk was sold to the Isbrantsen Steamship Co., of New York City on 30 November 1959 for conversion to merchant service, but after the cancellation of the project, in May 1961 her hulk was resold to the J. C. Berkwit Co., also of New York City. One Hundred and five had been wounded. Less than a month after commissioning, Suwannee was underway from Hampton Roads, for the invasion of North Africa. During that operation, Suwannee joined the Northern Attack Force, and her planes bombed and strafed Roi and Namur Islands, in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, and conducted anti-submarine patrols for the task force. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Search for a command's Crew List| Reaching San Pedro on 26 September 1941, Suwannee embarked east coast-bound travelers on that day and the next, disembarking the three USMC passengers who had ridden the ship from Hawaiian waters. At 2300, the enemy cruiser Sendai was picked up on radar, and, the 3rd Battle of Savo Island commenced. Artwork details about crossing Photographed by Ensign Barrett Gallagher, USNR. Stanley E. Ruehlow 1 September 1946, DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 20 Years Later, "Ex Scientia Tridens": The U.S. 1 208 The person's command ? Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman. Add a reunion information. http://navylog.navymemorial.org/Portals/0/images/ships-tribute/NSB94211136.jpg Monssen DD 436 11 13 1942 1942-11-13 00:00:00.000 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal In what would later be called the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal the heavily outnumbered US forces sighted the Japanese fleet headed toward Henderson Field to bombard it and cripple Allied air operations long enough to sneak in 11 of their transports to relieve their beleaguered comrades fighting on the island. A week later, she put into Espritu Santo for four days.
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