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		Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Boston Latin School, and the United States Naval Academy in June 1914 where he was given the nickname 'Ziggy'.
		Sprague was ordered to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island in June 1939 where he spent 3 months in study before reporting to his first sea command, the 21-year old oil tanker USS Patoka (AO-9) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.
		Sprague's last seagoing command was as Commander, Carrier Division 6 with his flag in USS Kearsarge (CV-33) from May to October 1948.
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	USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
		USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16), is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy, the tenth ship of that class.
		She was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A. Sprague (1896–1955), hero of the Samar action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where he received the Navy Cross.
		Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_clifton_sprague__ffg_16_.html (166 words)

	Clifton Sprague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vice Admiral Clifton Albert Frederick ("Ziggy") Sprague (1896-1955) was a World War II-era officer in the U.S. Navy.
		At the beginning of World War II, Sprague was a Commander, and was commanding the Tangier (AV-8) at Pearl Harbor during the attack.
		After the war, Sprague served as commander of a naval district.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifton_Sprague (285 words)

	USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16), is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy, the tenth ship of that class.
		She was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A. Sprague (1896–1955), hero of the Samar action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where he received the Navy Cross.
		Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Clifton_Sprague_(FFG-16) (196 words)

	USS Clifton Sprague (FFG 16)
		Decommissioned on June 2, 1995, the CLIFTON SPRAGUE was subsequently given to the Turkish Navy and where she was recommissioned as GEMLIK.
		The cloud is a symbol that reflects Admiral Sprague's navigational skill and keen military mind during the Battle of Samar, when he used a smoke screen and a rain squall to avoid the destruction of his own forces, while inflicting severe damage upon the enemy.
		On 10 November 1982, CLIFTON SPRAGUE headed south to assume duties as Caribbean Ready Ship, where she was called upon to assist other naval units during hostilities in Grenada.
	navysite.de /ffg/FFG16.HTM (1198 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE BATTLE OFF SAMAR
		Sprague knew, two other carrier groups, Taffies 1 and 2, were on similar missions in support of the American G.I.'s who had gone ashore at Leyte Gulf five days earlier.
		Surely, Sprague was thinking, the cause of all the unexpected commotion must be Admiral William Halsey’s Third Fleet, the closest large naval unit to Tally 3.
		And between the clouds and the sea was the incessant lightning and thunder of gunfire.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/1/1966_1_20_print.shtml (6619 words)

	Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague
		Clifton A. “Ziggy” Sprague enters World War II as the commanding officer of the seaplane tender Tangier when the Japanese suddenly attacked the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
		Also, because of Sprague’s training regimen on the Tangier, the crew was fully prepared to go to General Quarters and defend their ship against the Japanese assault.
		Sprague repeatedly demonstrated his competence for command and won the respect of the Wasp’s crew.
	www.battle-of-leyte-gulf.com /Leaders/Americans/Sprague/sprague.html (683 words)

	USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
		USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16), tenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A....
		USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16), tenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A. Sprague (1896-1955), hero of the Battle off Samar[?].
		Decommissioned 2 June 1995, she was transferred to Turkey 27 August 1997 as that nation's TCG Gazantiep (F 490)[?].
	www.wordlist.org /us/uss-clifton-sprague-(ffg-16).html (170 words)

	NPPA: Honors and Recognitions - Joseph A. Sprague Award
		This award, established in 1949, is the highest honor in the field of photojournalism.
		Joseph A. Sprague, who died in 1947, was a press technical representative for Graflex Corp., Rochester, NY.
		Sprague is credited with the design of the Big Bertha, Magic Eye and Combat Camera and dozens of refinements to the Speed Graphic.
	www.nppa.org /about_us/honors_and_recognitions/sprague (227 words)

	Clifton Sprague - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Vice Admiral Clifton A. Sprague (1889-1955) was a World War II era officer in the U.S. Navy.
		At the beginning of World War II, Sprague was a Captain, and was commanding the Tangier (AV-3) at Pearl Harbor during the attack.
		As the commander of one of three escort arrier groups assigned from the 7th Fleet to support the landings, "Taffy 3" as it was known, Sprague became engaged with the powerful Japanese "Center Force" with only three destroyers and six destroyer escorts supporting the group.
	www.music.us /education/C/Clifton-Sprague.htm (488 words)

	The Battle Off Samar - Main Menu
		Added a bio page for VADM Clifton A.F. "Ziggy" Sprague, USN.
		It's only $9.99 per copy and you will not be sorry.
		The Combat Action Photo section is a great place to get a feel for the battle.
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	Clifton Park
		Clifton is an often used name for many people, and many places.
		The family name of Clifton has been around for many ages, and is still a name of today.
		Clifton,Massachusetts is the neighborhood overlapping the border between Swampscott and Marblehead
	www.altvetmed.com /face/21603-clifton-park.html (581 words)

	Rear-Admiral Clifton Albert Frederick Sprague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Clifton Sprague was one of the many officers who went the war-time way to Fast Carrier Group command.
		Sprague's day came when he was assigned to the Leyte landings, as COMTU 77.4.3.
		Through Sprague's able leadership, a disaster was prevented when five of the six escort carrier escaped the grasp of IJN units.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/biographies/clifton_sprague.htm (240 words)

	FFG 16 Clifton Sprague
		On 10 November 1982, Clifton Sprague headed south to assume duties as Caribbean Ready Ship, where she was called upon to assist other naval units during hostilities in Grenada.
		Clifton Sprague headed for her new home port of Philadelphia and service with the Naval Reserve Force, in November 1984.
		The cloud on the crest is a symbol that reflects Admiral Sprague's navigational skill and keen military mind during the Battle of Samar, when he used a smoke screen and a rain squall to avoid the destruction of his own forces, while inflicting severe damage upon the enemy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ffg-16.htm (1137 words)

	A List Of Complaints of Judicial Misconduct Committed By Justice Edward Clifton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Judge Clifton refused to hear arguments of wrongdoing which was orchestrated and implemented by the Attorney General's office and Coventry Police involving State v.
		Paul Sprague, the Defendant lawyer for the town of Coventry asking, "How do you want to handle this guy?", referring to me who was the Pro Se Plaintiff trying to present my proof of perjury and other abuses of discretion regarding the Attorney General's office and the Coventry Police.
		Judge Clifton became aware of admitted criminal negligence which resulted in the death of a minor child and refused to address, correct or report this serious problem.
	www.caught.net /caught/clift.htm (547 words)

	Entertainment Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sprague thus found himself confronted with a Herculean task: He had to preserve his “baby” carriers from almost certain destruction, something he could accomplish only by fleeing and fighting defensively with the weapons he had.
		Sprague ordered his destroyers and their escorts to also engage the enemy, which they did smartly and with heroic aplomb, knowing that they had scant chance of surviving their opponents’ much heavier guns.
		Sprague dodged in and out of isolated squalls trying to conceal his ships, but with only mild success.
	www.ent-today.com /books/apr04/bk043004.htm (750 words)

	THE BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF - Summary
		Taffy Three was in a desperate situation, facing an exceptionally powerful force which also had a great superiority in speed over the escort carriers, while the only ships which Clifton Sprague had available to protect his flattops were the three destroyers and four destroyer escorts of his screen.
		At 0657 Sprague had turned his carriers due east, begun working them up to their maximum speed of seventeen-and-a-half knots, ordered all his ships to lay smoke, and started to launch every available aircraft.
		While the small ships of Clifton Sprague's screen were conducting these desperate counter-attacks the Japanese ships were also subjected to incessant assaults by aircraft from the three Taffies.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/LEYTE_GULF_Summary_of_the_Battle_.htm (4173 words)

	NO HIGHER HONOR: Photo: DE 413
		Sprague begs for help in a clear-text message giving the positions of his fleet and the oncoming enemy.
		But neither the weather nor the pinpricks from the ill-armed carrier planes deter the Japanese force, which bears in at up to 30 merciless knots, hounding the thin-skinned carriers with shells the size of tree trunks and the weight of small cars.
		None of the small boys mounted a gun that could pierce battleship armor, so their only weapon with a prayer of effectiveness was the torpedo.
	www.navybook.com /nohigherhonor/pic-de413.shtml (985 words)

	Hoel I dd 533
		Sprague's force was composed of three units, each comprising a group of escort carriers and a screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts.
		While the carriers launched all available planes to attack their numerous Japanese adversaries and then formed a rough circle as they turned toward Leyte Gulf, Hoel and her fellow destroyers Johnston and Heermann, worked feverishly to lay down a smoke screen to hide their "baby flattops" from the overwhelmingly superior enemy ships.
		At 0706, when a providential rain squall helped to hide his carriers, Admiral Clifton Sprague boldly ordered his destroyers to attack the Japanese with torpedoes.
	www.multied.com /Navy/destroyer/HoelIdd533.html (1860 words)

	MaritimeQuest - USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16/Gaziantep F-490 Page 1
		February 10, 1981: Clifton Sprague FFG-16 (left) and Flatley FG-21 (right) under construction at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
		April 10, 1981: USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16 underway during Exercise Gangbuster XI.
		September 1, 1982: USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16 at sea, location not available.
	www.maritimequest.com /warship_directory/us_navy_pages/frigates/pages/clifton_sprague_ffg_16_page_1.htm (81 words)

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		After replenishing at Seeadler Harbor of Manus, Admiralty Islands, HOEL cleared that base with a fire support group 12 October 1944 to join Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's escort carrier group (Task Group 77.4) in invading the Philippines.
		HOEL was attached to "Taffy 3" (Escort Carrier Task Unit 77.4.3) commanded by Rear Admiral Clifton A. Sprague and comprising four escort carriers guarded by destroyers HOEL, HEERMANN, and JOHNSTON.
		Before the decisive battle off Samar, "Taffy 3" was reinforced by the arrival of Admiral R. Oftsie with two more escort carriers and four destroyer escorts, DENNIS, JOHN C. and SAMUEL B. Dawn of 25 October 1944 found "Taffy 3" steaming northeast of Samar operating as the Northern Air Support Group.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/Battle.of.Leyte.Gulf/Battle.off.Samar/hoel.txt (2324 words)

	St. Lô: First Victim of the Kamikazes
		Vice-Admiral Kurita Takeo's Center Force, with four battleships, had hit the escort carriers of Rear-Admiral Clifton Sprague.
		Lô had come out of the Battle off Samar unscathed, but she was nevertheless not to survive the action to follow.
		From his vantage point in the bridge of White Plains, Sprague could witness the attacks.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/pictoral/stlo_sunk.htm (522 words)

	Ancestor Chronicles - Our Kin And Their Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On the morning of the 25th Kurita encountered the escort carriers of Admiral Clifton "Ziggy" Sprague's Taffy 3.
		By 1100 hours, when the order was finally given, the best Lee could hope for was to intercept the Japanese battleships before they made it back through the San Bernardino Strait.
		By then Admiral Kurita had inexplicably ended his attack on Sprague's jeep carriers and turned around to run for the strait.
	groups.msn.com /AncestorChroniclesOurKinAndTheirTimes/justhistory.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=602 (817 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers
		She was converted while building and was launched Apr. 4, 1943, by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. Aug. 16, 1943 - USS Intrepid (CV 11) commissioned in Norfolk, Va., Captain Thomas L. Sprague in command.
		Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J., she was originally laid down as Buffalo (CL 99) but was reclassified as CV 29 and renamed Bataan Jun. 2, 1942.
		The ship was laid down as Oriskany on 18 Mar.1942 at Quincy, Mass., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; renamed Wasp on 13 Nov. 1942; and, launched on 17 August 1943.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-hist2b.html (835 words)

	ipedia.com: Battle of Leyte Gulf Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The force under Admiral Kurita passed through San Bernardino Strait at 0300 on 25 October 1944 and steamed south along the coast of Samar.
		At dawn the Japanese ships engaged an American task group of six escort aircraft carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts under the command of Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague which they thought was part of the 3rd Fleet.
		The escort carriers launched their aircraft which attacked the Japanese ships as they pursued the fleeing American force.
	www.ipedia.com /battle_of_leyte_gulf.html (659 words)

	Wukovits (1995) Devotion to duty: A biography of Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wukovits (1995) Devotion to duty: A biography of Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague
		Devotion to duty: A biography of Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague
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	Miscellaneous Albany County, NY, Obituaries
		Survivors include a daughter, Gail H. Ziegler of Clifton Park; four sisters, Ione Sprague of Clifton, N.J., Josephine Parsons of Oneonta, Kathereen Toth of Mt. Vision, and Bertha Redmond of East Guilford; and two brothers, Jesse Horth of Oneonta and Willis Horth of Laurens.
		Memorial contributions may be made to the Ballston Lake Volunteer Ambulance Service, 1123 Route 146A, Ballston Lake, NY 12019; or to the Jonesville Volunteer Fire Company, 953 Main St., Clifton Park, NY 12065.
		Survivors include two daughters, Donna F. VanScoy of Ballston Spa and Kathy Marchesiello of Charlton; four sons, Robert Bergeron of Watervliet, Thomas Bergeron of Schenectady, John Bergeron of Clifton Park and Jack Degen of Richmond, Maine; a brother, Russell DeReamer of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and 12 grandchildren.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/ny/ny-albany33.htm (3698 words)

	LTJG BATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Battle Fleet was to be prepared for Admirals Inspection on the week starting the eighth of December, so all the hatches were to be opened to the double bottoms of each ship to air out the water tight compartments for inspection.
		Our ship the Tangier was an auxiliary ship, and we were not scheduled for inspection on Monday, but we had an Aviation Captain of the ship by the name of Clifton Sprague, a down east skipper.
		He was hard-boiled, and when the order came out to stow all ammunition below, he told the gunners mates to keep the ammunition in the ready boxes.
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	The Flagship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He served as executive officer aboard TCG Gemlik (ex-guided-missile frigate Flatley) and TCG Gokceada (ex- Guided-missile frigate Mahlon S. Tisdale).
		He served as commanding officer of TCG Gaziantep (ex-guided-missile frigate Clifton F. Sprague).
		During the ceremony, Kurgan noted Morison’s accomplishments as a U.S. Navy ship and promised to continue the tradition.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2002/apr252002_8.shtml (454 words)

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