1173:, Vaseline, and bandages, commandeered a fire extinguisher and made our way forward, dodging flames along the main deck. Along part of the way, we were joined by a sailor manning a seawater fire hose with fairly good pressure, and though the seawater would only scatter the gasoline fires away from us, by using the water and foam alternatively as we advanced, we managed to work our way up several decks, through passageways along the wrecked and burning combat information center and decoding area, through officers' country, and finally out on the forecastle. Many of the crew on the forecastle and the catwalks above it had been blown over the side by the explosions. 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. Their only escape was to leap aflame into the sea, but some were trapped so that they were incinerated before they could leap. By the time we arrived on the forecastle, the flow of gasoline had mostly consumed itself, and flames were only erupting and flickering from combustible areas of water and oil. Nonetheless, the decks and bulkheads were still blistering hot and ammunition in the small arms locker on the deck below was popping from the heat like strings of firecrackers. With each salvo of popping, two or three more panicky crew men would leap over the side, and we found that our most urgent task was to persuade those poised on the rail not to jump by a combination of physical restraint and reassurance that fires were being controlled and that more help was on the way. Most of the remaining wounded in the forecastle area were severely burned beyond recognition and hope.
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1338:, bound for Japan and occupation duty in the erstwhile enemy's waters. For the week that followed, the group operated off the coast of Kyushu, southwest of Nagasaki, Japan, while aircraft from the carriers patrolled the island and coast and assisted in locating mines in the clearance operations paving the way for entry into the harbor at Nagasaki. The ships had entered Nagasaki Harbor by 15 September while Allied prisoners of war (New Zealand) were taken on board the hospital ship
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participation in
Operation Magic Carpet they were part of a much larger contingency of ships. 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. Engaged in the Pacific operations as of 10 November, were 489 ships having space for slightly under 700,000 passengers. Included were: 6 battleships, 7 large carriers, 4
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One of our corpsmen tending the wounded on the flight deck saw the plight of those isolated by fire on the forecastle. He came below to report that medical help was critically needed there. It seemed to me that we would have to try to get through to them. So he and I restocked our first aid bags with
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and crashed into her at 08:04 about 40 ft (12 m) forward of the after elevator, opening a 10 ft (3.0 m) hole in her flight deck. His bomb compounded the fracture when it exploded between the flight and hangar decks, tearing a 25 ft (7.6 m) gash in the latter and causing
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was sent to Long Beach, and had a short dry-dock period. Then it was back to
Operation Magic Carpet, on 4 December. 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. Because of bad weather they did not arrive in Okinawa until
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The ship reached Saipan around 15:00, on 28 October, and stayed just long enough, 15 hours, to load stores and 400 troops. 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. For their
November
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which had just been recovered. The two planes erupted upon contact as did nine other planes on her flight deck. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. The casualties for 25â26 October were 107 dead and 160 wounded. The escort carriers put into
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to maintain their flight qualifications and never returned. They were declared dead on 4 October of the following year. They and the seven members of the flight crew were discovered in the wreckage of the aircraft on 19 November 1948, and their bodies were recovered.
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departed
Nagasaki, and remained at sea until she made a quick seven-hour stop at the outer harbor of Nagasaki before heading toward Kobe. That stop was aborted because of a minefield on the path there, so they returned south to Wakayama on 27 September. On 2 October,
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unloaded many grateful troops in Los
Angeles, and then headed north. After a few days off San Francisco, she headed for Pier 91, in Seattle, and then on to Bremerton. On 28 October, the carrier was placed in a reserve status with the
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s group fought off two more air attacks before 13:00; then steamed in a northeasterly direction to join Taffy 3 and launch futile searches for Kurita's rapidly retiring force. Just after noon on 26 October, another group of
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both bow and stern, she lost all contact with the stern buoy and moved dangerously close to shore. The bow cables and hawser held and she remained safely in place by turning the screws to maintain position.
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925:. For two weeks, she supported the Hollandia landings by shuttling replacement aircraft to the larger fleet carriers actually engaged in air support of the landings. She returned to Manus on 5 May.
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submarines which sortied from
Casablanca, on the day of the assault. She was the first escort carrier to score against an enemy submarine, and she helped to prove the usefulness of her type in ASW.
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On 4 August, she cleared the
Marianas for Eniwetok and Seeadler Harbor, reaching the latter port on 13 August. Almost a month later, on 10 September, she put to sea to support the landings on
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s planes did not actually become engaged in the famous battle of naval aircraft, because they remained with the invasion forces in the
Marianas providing ASW and combat air patrols (CAPs).
1152:. Her gunners soon shot down another enemy plane, then bore down on a third circling in the clouds at about 8,000 ft (2,400 m). They hit the enemy, but he rolled over, dove at
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Atoll, and conducted anti-submarine patrols for the task force. She remained in the vicinity of
Kwajalein for the first 15 days of February, then spent the next nine days helping out at
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1415:. They then spent a few days in the port of Kure, just south of Hiroshima, and then they returned near Wakayama, on 10 October, for "typhoon anchorage" as another storm,
940:, in mid-June. For the next one and a half months, she supported the invasion of the Marianas, participating in the campaigns against Saipan and Guam. On 19 June, as the
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1252:. For the major portion of the next 77 days, her planes continued to deny the enemy the use of those air bases. Periodically, she put into the anchorage at
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subjected those islands to two days of extensive bombing raids. A week later, she put into
Espiritu Santo, for four days. After short stops at
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21, 14-cylinder radial engine were found in the vicinity of the hit. Cylinder heads are destroyed, connecting rods and crankshaft are visible.
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was much farther south as an element of Rear Admiral Thomas Sprague's "Taffy 1". Consequently, she did not participate in the running surface
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Her first assignment was close air support for the invasion troops, but, within a few days, she settled down to a routine of pounding the
1275:. The carrier reentered San Pedro Bay, on 6 July, and spent the next month there. On 3 August, she got underway for Okinawa, arriving in
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until 25 October. She provided air support for the assault forces with ASW and CAPs and strikes against Japanese installations ashore.
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got underway to return to the west coast for major repairs. She stopped at Pearl Harbor, overnight on 19â20 November, and arrived at
619:, and operated by that company until acquired by the Navy, on 26 June 1941. Keystone Tankship Corp., in turn delivered the vessel at
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1435:-class carriers, 45 escort carriers, 21 light cruisers, 164 troopships, 165 assault transports, 30 hospital transports, 7 converted
627:(AO-33), the ship was commissioned "in ordinary", an inactive status, on 9 July 1941, then placed in commission, on 16 July 1941.
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was transferred from the US 9th Fleet to the 5th Fleet. They remained at Wakayama, until the morning of 4 October, and ran into
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Mobile Force sailed south from Japan and drew the bulk of Admiral
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hit on 17 September. While moored between two buoys with two
661:. On 20 August, she was redesignated an "Auxiliary Carrier",
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group. During that span of time, she visited Guadalcanal,
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attack from 25 October 1944. Parts of the A6M5 Zero's
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Medical officer Lieutenant Walter B. Burwell wrote:
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223:Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier (ACV), 20 August 1942
453:Additional 20 & 40 mm guns later added
1132:attack of the war. The first one crashed into
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562:after rivers. In 1942, she was converted to a
220:Aircraft Escort Vessel (AVG), 14 February 1942
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1391:Captain Charles C. McDonald and Rear Admiral
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643:was designated an "Aircraft Escort Vessel",
317:24,275 long tons (24,665 t) (full load)
1634:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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280:General characteristics (1942 as converted)
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449:20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons
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1067:Just before 07:00, on 25 October, one of
437:127 mm (5.0 in)/51 caliber guns
82:Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
1628:This article incorporates text from the
1237:, from 21â27 March, before arriving off
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550:, in 1939, before being acquired by the
19:For other ships with the same name, see
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558:(AO-33), after the tradition of naming
1193:s jumped Taffy 1. A Zero crashed into
119:Purchased by the US Navy, 26 June 1941
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834:She returned to the United States at
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359:114 ft (35 m) extreme width
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1282:Hostilities ended on 15 August, but
1217:After five days in Seeadler Harbor,
803:, on 11â12 December, and arrived at
799:The auxiliary carrier transited the
273:Scrapped in Bilbao, Spain, June 1962
2505:Merchant ships of the United States
1395:, who headed COMCARDIV 22 on board
1674:U.S.S. Suwannee (CVE-27) Home Page
1029:from the south. This drew Admiral
850:. Following the occupation of the
726:s in bombing missions. During the
546:, was built as the civilian oiler
226:Escort Carrier (CVE), 15 July 1943
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2495:Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey
890:Islands, in the northern part of
707:, and for the next few days, her
599:was laid down on 3 June 1938, at
41:underway, after repairs from the
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921:, the escort carrier headed for
651:, Virginia, for conversion to a
377:13,500 shp (10,067 kW)
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1538:Kamikaze To Die For The Emperor
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1025:Force, attempted to force the
391:(450 psi (3,100 kPa)
186:Fleet Oiler (AO), 26 June 1941
1:
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1267:, to support the landings at
715:(ASW) air patrols, while her
617:Keystone Tankship Corporation
72:Keystone Tankship Corporation
16:Sangamon class escort carrier
2510:Cimarron-class oilers (1939)
1476:Isbrantsen Steamship Company
1447:21 December. In mid-January
1439:and 40 miscellaneous craft.
942:Battle of the Philippine Sea
932:and the other to Kwajalein,
1259:On 16 June, she headed for
417:(33 km/h; 21 mph)
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913:, in the Solomons, and at
728:Naval Battle of Casablanca
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1603:Friedman, Norman (1983).
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840:Gilbert Islands operation
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335:553 ft (169 m)
329:525 ft (160 m)
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1442:After a stop in Hawaii,
1157:a number of casualties.
1126:in the first deliberate
1035:Battle of Surigao Strait
950:Japanese submarine
768:"Rosenblatt's Reply" on
687:invasion of North Africa
47:attacks of October 1944.
1580:"USS SUWANNEE (ACV-27)"
1536:Smith, Peter C (2014).
1486:, Spain, in June 1962.
971:Netherlands East Indies
554:, in 1941, and renamed
369:32 ft (9.8 m)
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1605:U.S. Aircraft Carriers
1425:Operation Magic Carpet
1177:Within two hours, her
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356:75 ft (23 m)
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111:Mrs. Howard L. Vickery
1223:Puget Sound Navy Yard
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473:Douglas SBD Dauntless
270:Sold 30 November 1959
2490:Type T3-S2-A tankers
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1480:J.C. Berkwit Company
1279:, three days later.
737:On 11 November, off
730:from 8â11 November,
717:Grumman TBF Avengers
709:Grumman F4F Wildcats
623:, Maryland. Renamed
1653:navsource.org: USS
1413:tropical storm Kate
831:, on 15 July 1943.
754:, one of the three
615:; delivered to the
609:Maritime Commission
588:-27, 12 June 1955.
479:Aviation facilities
469:Grumman TBF Avenger
465:Grumman F4F Wildcat
1661:hazegray.org: USS
1401:Martin PBM Mariner
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1146:during his run on
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1382:On 21 September,
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1023:Shoji Nishimura's
989:Thomas L. Sprague
944:began to unfold,
613:Howard L. Vickery
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108:Sponsored by
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