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	USS S-40 - Gallant Lady of the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		USS S-40 departed San Francisco with her submarine division on 17 September and arrived at Manila on 5 November 1924.
		USS S-40 arrived at Soerabaja on the north coast of Java on 2 February 1942, her crew frustrated by their attempts to intercept enemy shipping, but with information on tides, currents, navigational aids, and Japanese tactics.
		USS S-40's 9th war patrol, 12 August-10 September 1943, was again conducted in the fog and heavy swells of the northern Kuriles, but was cut short by repeated material failures which included the seemingly ever present problems of deterioration of the main power cables and fuel oil leaks into the after battery.
	thesaltysailor.com /s-boats/s40.htm (1910 words)

	USS Ward (DD-139) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		USS Ward (DD-139) was a 1247-ton Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later APD-16 in World War II.
		She helped fight off a heavy Japanese air attack off Tulagi on 7 April 1943 and spent most of the rest of that year on escort and transport service.
		When the resulting fires could not be controlled, Ward's crew was ordered to abandon ship and she was sunk by gunfire from USS O'Brien (DD-725), whose Commanding Officer, William W. Outerbridge, had been in command of Ward during her action off Pearl Harbor three years before.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Ward (624 words)

	Tulagi Battle
		Between 0725 and 0749, the Tulagi Communication Base notified the Commanding Officer of the Twenty-Fifth Air Flotilla at Rabaul that Tulagi was under bombardment, that the landings had begun, and that the senders were destroying all equipment immediately.
		At 0330, 8 August, the USS President Hayes and President Adams, with the 1st and 3d Battalions, 2d Marines (reinforced) embarked, were ordered to cross from the transport area off Guadalcanal's Beach Red to the Tulagi transport area.
		Naval gunfire from USS Gridley was directed upon Gaomi at 1700 and positions on the small island were silenced.
	mylescfoxdd829.net /TulagiBattle.htm (4225 words)

	Tulagi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tulagi, less commonly Tulaghi, is a small island (5.5 km by 1 km) in the Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Florida Island.
		The Japanese occupied it on 3 May 1942, with the intention of setting up a seaplane base nearby, and the ships in Tulagi harbor were raided by planes from USS Yorktown the following day, in a prelude to the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		The present-day Tulagi has a fishing fleet and is developing a scuba diving industry; the wrecks of USS Aaron Ward, USS Kanawha, and HMNZS Moa are close by, and the wrecks of Ironbottom Sound are not much further off.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tulagi (271 words)

	DANFS: USS Tulagi (CVE-72)
		Tulagi's fliers conducted a devastating attack along the line of march of a German convoy which snarled the roads for miles around Remouline and crowned her achievements of the day by downing three German Ju-52s.
		Before it splashed, the attacker, deflected from Tulagi by withering antiaircraft fire, crossed astern and to starboard of the escort carrier and vainly attempted to dive into an alternate target.
		The next day, Tulagi resumed her station off Okinawa, providing planes for air strikes called in by ground observers and for running photoreconnaissance and patrol missions.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/CVE/cve72.html (1291 words)

	USN Ships--USS Blue (DD-387) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		USS Blue, a 1,500 ton Bagley class destroyer, was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia.
		USS Blue was scuttled on 23 August 1942, as strong Japanese naval forces approached in the early stages of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
		USS Blue (DD-387) is alongside Canberra's port bow, as USS Patterson (DD-392) approaches from astern.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/dd387.htm (951 words)

	USS Nicholas — Virgil Wing: Increase the Battle Tempo
		Tulagi and Purvis Bay are surrounded by a wall of jungle, you can't see into it, so it is like the dark to a child, an unknown.
		USS Dobbin; I hadn’t seen this ship since 1937 when she was moored in San Pedro Harbor in Base Force, U.S. Fleet.
		In fairness to the lady, the roles were reversed on an occasion while in a lip-lock of passion, I saw a rubber tit roll across the floor and under the bed.
	www.ussnicholas.org /wing12.html (6411 words)

	About USS Underhill
		The USS Underhill 682 was launched on October 15, 1943, at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, after Christening ceremonies on this date.
		The convoy consisted of one troopship, the USS Adria, the six LST's carrying remnants of the United States Army's 96th Division, war-weary survivors going to the Philippines for much deserved rest and reinforcements.
		While the USS Underhill 682 and 112 of her men had been lost, she had accomplished her mission -- that of delivering her convoy safely to its destination.
	www.ussunderhill.org /html/about_uss_underhill.html (2157 words)

	The Story and Memories of the USS VIRGO AKA-20 / AE-30, USS Virgo History
		On July 16, 1943 the U.S.S. VIRGO (AKA-20), was placed in commission by Commander H. Sasse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York; Commander C. McLaughlin, Commanding with a crew of two hundred seven (207) enlisted men and twenty-four (24) officers.
		On the 15th, the vessel departed from San Diego enroute to Pearl Harbor The U.S.S. VIRGO arrived in Pearl Harbor on the 21st of September and proceeded to unload the marine equipment.
		USS VIRGO officially became a Naval Ammunition Ship 19 August 1966, when she was re-commissioned in ceremonies held at Seattle, Washington following a reactivation at Todd Shipyard there.
	www.uss-virgo.com /history.htm (5123 words)

	CVE-21 Crew Memories
		They remember seeing the USS Barr getting torpedoed and the depth charges exploding in the water as CVE 21 was going down in the water.
		Later word was passed along that the explosion we saw was a fourth torpedo, intended for the “21” that hit the stern of the USS Barr DE 576, resulting in a large number of casualties.
		Only 6 men were lost of the crew of the carrier, 15 men from the Destroyer Escort USS Barr and 4 pilots who’s planes were in the air at the time of the sinking of their landing field the aircraft carrier.
	www.ussblockisland.org /cve-21_crew_memories.htm (3766 words)

	Pacific War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Arizona burned for two days after being hit by a Japanese bomb in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		[2] The formal Instrument of Surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, with representatives of each Allied nation, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_War (7126 words)

	The Australian Merchant Navy \| MV Tulagi
		MV Tulagi was built by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. in 1939, a twin screw motor vessel of 2281 gross tons service speed 12 knots length 254ft breadth 44ft.
		At that time MV Tulagi was en-route to Darwin where on her arrival the harbour was obviously congested with Naval and Merchant ships of all nationalities, some with passengers fleeing the Japanese southward advance, others with troops and equipment for the defence of Darwin.
		MV Tulagi was only superficially damaged, but because of the large number of troops aboard Captain Thompson put the ship aground on a mud bank, north of Harper's Folly and south of Sweir's Bluff.
	www.merchant-navy-ships.com /index.php?id=30,0,0,1,0,0 (1651 words)

	USN Ships--USS Ellet (DD-398) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In the latter role, she participated in the Doolittle air raid on Japan in April 1942 and the Battle of Midway in early June.
		USS Ellet was named in honor of five members of the Ellet family who distinguished themselves during the Civil War: Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr; Brigadier General Alfred W. Ellet; Colonel Charles Rivers Ellet; Lieutenant Colonel John A. Ellet; and Edward C. Ellet.
		Crewmen of USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/dd398.htm (1232 words)

	Battle of the Coral Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Allied strategy at this time was focused on a defensive build-up of United States Army and Marine strength on New Caledonia (well to the south of the Solomon Islands), and Australian air and ground strength at Port Moresby (in southern New Guinea, just north of the Australian mainland).
		The carriers USS Hornet (CV-8) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) were heading south after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo but arrived too late to take part in the battle.
		Burning USS Lexington Both American carriers were hit by the Japanese strike: Yorktown by a bomb, the larger, less maneuverable Lexington by both bombs and torpedoes.
	battle-of-the-coral-sea.iqnaut.net (1600 words)

	USS Tulagi (CVE 72) Crew List
		Transferred to the USS Tulagi on Nov. 11,1943.
		Reported to Tulagi in San Diego and in Samar planes and Aviation crews were disembarked Sept 1945.
		Captain Zimmeman was a strict exec and caused the steamers in the galley to explode inmy face on one occassion.
	navysite.de /crew.php?action=ship&ship=cve_72 (576 words)

	June, 2001
		Yes, Gordon Earl Rusk was on the USS Bell in the Pacific during WWII.
		Vice Admiral Oldendorf is in the USS CALIFORNIA, in task unit 77.4.2 is SOP and OTC of the combined groups.
		Task units 77.4.1 and 77.2.2 are steaming in the van and Vice Admiral OLDENDORF, is in the USS CALIFORNIA, in the van group and is OTC of the combined formations.
	www.ussbelldd587.org /news/news-jun01.htm (7977 words)

	USS Fletcher DD-445 XO account of Nov. 13, 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In 1986 he wrote a letter in response to questions he was asked about Fletcher’s actions on the morning of November 13, 1942 after the USS Juneau blew up and sank.
		He also served as the Executive Officer of the destroyer USS Fletcher and saw action in the Solomon Islands.
		Later in the Pacific Campaign, he was Commanding Officer of the new destroyer USS Ault in the Third and Fifth Fleets, as part of the destroyer screens for fast-carrier task forces operating against the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Kyushu and Honshu.
	www.ussfletcher.org /jcwylie.html (1954 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Lieutenant Commander Black was the executive officer of the USS BENSON (DD-421) in 1940 and commanding officer of the USS JACOB JONES (DD-130) in 1941.
		Most of it was spent leading the cruisers USS BREMERTON (CA-130), 15 to 30 May 1953, and USS ST. PAUL (CA-73), 30 May to 1 June, around like a great Dane on a leash, but at night we had the opportunity of firing harassing and interdiction missions at targets on the beach.
		The USS HIGBEE (DD-806) and the BLACK were, in mid March 1965, assigned to Task Group 71.1 and were the first United States warships to partake in the infiltration surveillance mission.
	www.ussblack.com /history.htm (11664 words)

	The Admiral
		Following three months of duty at Headquarters, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet as a member of the Joint Strategic Committee, he assumed command of the USS WASP in May 1942, and was in command of that carrier when she was sunk by enemy action in the Solomon Islands area on September 15, 1942.
		As head of the War Plans Division on the staff, he contributed essentially to the successful prosecution of the war in the Pacific and his unfailing efforts were of vital importance in the forcing the enemy to surrender.
		Representing the Navy in the initial conferences with the Japanese at Manila in August 1945, he was present aboard the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay when the formal surrender of the Japanese was signed on September 1, 1945.
	www.ussforrestsherman.org /the_admiral.htm (1155 words)

	USS Nicholas — Virgil Wing: Here We Come
		We held a fueling-at-sea exercise from USS Sabine at 0830 until noon.
		At 1530 we moved alongside USS Ballard which was moored to Dixie, which means we have some availability—a short one.
		We patrolled while the cruisers were entering Tulagi Harbor, then we entered to fuel ship after 1600 from Erskine Phelps.
	www.ussnicholas.org /wing15.html (5717 words)

	The Story and Memories of the USS VIRGO AKA-20 / AE-30, USS Virgo and Mr. Roberts
		The U.S. Navy attack transport USS Virgo (AKA-20) was just like any of the multitude of identical and anonymous supply ships that served the Navy's fighting task forces in the Pacific during World War II, hauling Marines and soldiers and their gear from island beach to island beach and making sure the mail got through.
		You see, the Virgo was also the AKA601, the USS Reluctant, the ship that carried its wacky captain and crew over history's horizon as the setting of the novel, play and then movie, "Mr.
		This time it was another tanker, the USS Agawam, and he found himself on the run between New Orleans and the Caribbean refineries on Aruba.
	www.uss-virgo.com /roberts_wacky.htm (1636 words)

	Deployment to the Pacific - Page 1
		The aircraft were then loaded onto the escort carrier USS Tulagi (CVE-72) for shipment overseas.
		Following a few changes in their personnel roster, the air echelon enjoyed one last liberty in Los Angeles, then boarded the USS Tulagi and departed for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on October 30th.
		The crossing to Pearl Harbor the was filled with excitement as the USS Tulagi, sailing without escort, took action to evade the Japanese submarine I-12 that had been reported in the area.
	www.vmb-613.com /deployment_to_the_pacific.html (703 words)

	Scuba Diving Tulagi - Dive Tulaghi, Solomon Islands - Scuba Dive Travel, Dive Adventures Australia
		Tulagi was the original capital of the Solomon’s but was severely damaged during WWII and was replaced by the new capital, Honiara, after the war.
		The HMNZ Moa, a corvette that was influential in the sinking of the Japanese Sub at Cape Esperance.
		In the beautiful waters around Tulagi some of the worlds best diving is to be found, from pristine reefs to spectacular WWII wrecks.
	www.diveadventures.com /pages/destinations/Solomon/Tulagi.htm (873 words)

	A History of DE 217
		The USS COOLBAUGH, Destroyer Escort 217, was named in honor of Lt. (Jg) Walter Wesley Coolbaugh, USNR, who distinguished himself in the air battles of the Coral Sea and was later killed in training operations on the West Coast of the United States.
		Twenty-three months after its commissioning, the USS COOLBAUGH returned to the United States of America for a major overhaul including repairs and alterations, and conversion to five-inch battery, and for subsequent duty in full commission with the Atlantic Fleet.
		The USS COOLBAUGH (DE-217) upon completion of repairs and alterations at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, departed from San Francisco, for San Diego, for a ten-day shakedown period on 17 November, 1945.
	www.usscoolbaugh.org /phippsbook.html (1677 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - August 5th - 8th, 1942
		On the flagship USS McCawley (known as the "Wacky Mac"), Rear Adm.
		Henry G. Munson's submarine USS S-38, a leaky 1920s relic, stumbles on the Meiyo Maru and sends her and 373 men of the Sasebo SNLF to the bottom.
		To the north are the cruisers USS Vincennes, USS Astoria, and USS Quincy.
	www.usswashington.com /dl05au42.htm (5401 words)

	type b2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		I-42 was torpedoed off the Palau Islands by submarine USS Tunny on 23 March 1944, while I-43 met the same fate at the hands of submarine USS Aspro 280 miles east of Guam on 15 February 1944.
		I-44 was sunk by aircraft from escort carrier USS Tulagi on 29 April 1945.
		Destroyer escort USS Whitehurst sank I-45 east of Surigao Strait on 29 October 1944.
	www.combinedfleet.com /type_b2.htm (154 words)

	U.S.S. Alabama
		The USS DRUM (SS-228) was launched May 12, 1941 by Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, sponsored by Mrs.
		She put into Tulagi from September 29th to October 2nd to repair her gyro compass, then sailed on to Brisbane.
		She is credited with sinking 15 ships, a total of 80,580 tons of enemy shipping, eighth highest of all U.S. submarines in total Japanese tonnage sunk.
	www.ussalabama.com /html/drum/index.php (1126 words)

	Misc Deck Log Excerpts
		USS BRYANT commenced patrolling eastern half of Surigao Strait and USS BUSH commenced patrolling western half of Surigao Strait on east and west courses.
		USS NEWCOMB guided landing craft to beach.....0732-In accordance with verbal orders of CDS 56, USS BUSH left patrol station to undertake fire support mission.
		The smooth deck log of the USS BUSH for the months of March and April were still aboard and lost when this vessel was sunk, due to enemy action, on April 6, 1945.
	www.ussbush.com /misc4445.htm (1923 words)

	Tulagi Island
		A coast watcher, Gordon Train (married to Vera Atkinson) stayed behind on Tulagi and was lost on a flight to the Shortland Island, to warn of the imminent invasion.
		The Japanese 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) landed on Tulagi to establish a seaplane base there (on the adjacent islands of Gavutu and Tanambogo) without resistance on May 3, 1942 and garrisoned it, and established a seaplane base at nearby Gavutu (also referred to as Tulagi Seaplane base) in the area.
		By nightfall of the following day, Tulagi was declared secure, but for several days, individual Japanese and small groups continued to be flushed from hiding places and hunted down by patrolling Marines.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/solomons_tulagi.html (639 words)

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