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	USS Vincennes (CA-44): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about USS Vincennes (CA-44) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The second USS Vincennes (CA-44) was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser sunk at the Battle of Savo Island[?] in 1942.
		Late in May, as German troops were smashing Allied defenses in France, Vincennes steamed to the Azores and visited Ponta Delgada[?] from 4 to 6 June 1940 before she proceeded on for French Morocco[?] to load a shipment of gold for transport to the United States.
		Vincennes joined other Fleet units for landing exercises at Culebra, Puerto Rico, on 4 February 1941 and sent her 50-foot boats to assist in unloading and troop debarkation drills.
	www.encyclopedian.com /us/USS-Vincennes-(CA-44).html (2776 words)

	USS Vincennes (CA-44) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vincennes' task force returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 May but got underway again on the 29th, bound for waters off Midway Island, which—according to American intelligence reports—a Japanese invasion force was approaching.
		Vincennes opened fire at 16:44 with her 5 inch (127 mm), 20 mm, and 1.1 inch (28 mm) antiaircraft batteries on the Kates approaching from the port side.
		While Jarvis limped away from Lunga Point, Vincennes and her sisters Quincy and Astoria steamed, as the northern escort force, to a position off Savo Island to screen the vulnerable transports which were still unloading off the invasion beaches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CA-44) (2841 words)

	Naval History/USS Vincennes CA-44
		Vincennes (CA-44) was laid down on 2 January 1934 at Quincy, Mass., by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Fore River plant, launched on 21 May 1936, sponsored by Miss Harriet Virginia Kimmell daughter of the mayor of Vincennes, Ind., and commissioned on 24 February 1937, Capt. Burton H. Green in command.
		Vincennes opened fire at 1644 with her 5-inch, 20millimeter, and 1.1-inch antiaircraft batteries on the "Kales" approaching from the port side.
		Three thousand yards from the transports, Vincennes, as in the previous day's action, was again in favorable firing position and opened up with every gun jn her battery, from 8-inch to 20-millimeter, that could bear on the attackers.
	www.multied.com /navy/cruiser/Vincennes.html (2712 words)

	USS Vincennes (CA-44) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Operating once again in the Caribbean, the heavy cruiser fired battle practice and gunnery exercises in company with Wichita through 18 January, when the two cruisers proceeded for Portland Bight, (A country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism) Jamaica.
		Vincennes rendezvoused with (Click link for more info and facts about TF 16) TF 16, built around (Click link for more info and facts about Enterprise) Enterprise and, with the combined might of the two task forces, struck out westward across the Pacific, headed toward Japanese home waters.
		While Jarvis limped away from Lunga Point, Vincennes and her sisters Quincy and Astoria steamed, as the northern escort force, to a position off (Click link for more info and facts about Savo Island) Savo Island to screen the vulnerable transports which were still unloading off the invasion beaches.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/US/USS_Vincennes_(CA-44)4.htm (2666 words)

	USN Ships--USS Vincennes (CA-44)
		USS Vincennes, a 9400-ton New Orleans class heavy cruiser built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in February 1937.
		She continued with the carrier force during its abortive voyage to the south Pacific at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea, then returned to Pearl Harbor in late May, in time to participate in the Battle of Midway on 4-6 June.
		During that action, she screened USS Yorktown (CV-5) when she was attacked and disabled by Japanese dive and torpedo bombers.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/ca44.htm (933 words)

	USS Vincennes (CG 49)
		USS VINCENNES was the third ship in the TICONDEROGA - class and the first cruiser in that class equipped with the three-legged main mast.
		USS VINCENNES is the fourth capital warship to bear this name and a city in Indiana, 55 miles south of Terra Haute.
		The third VINCENNES (CL 64) was commissioned in January 1944 and fought brilliantly throughout the Pacific in Battles of Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Formosa.
	www.navysite.de /cg/cg49.html (1647 words)

	USS Vincennes (CA-44) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The second USS ''Vincennes'' (CA-44) was a United States Navy New Orleans class cruiser''New Orleans''-class heavy cruiser sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942/.
		After a brief post-voyage period of repairs, the heavy cruiser sailed for the Virginia capes, where she rendezvoused with USS Ranger (CV-4)''Ranger'' and USS Sampson (DD-394)''Sampson''; proceeded on to Bermuda; and dropped anchor in Grassy Bay on 30 April/.
		Late in the month, she joined USS Hornet (CV-8)''Hornet''/ as the carrier conducted her shakedown training off the east coast of the United States.
	www.infothis.com /find/USS_Vincennes_(CA-44) (2880 words)

	USN Ships--USS Vincennes (CL-64)
		USS Vincennes, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in January 1944.
		She performed shakedown operations in the Caribbean area and was subsequently transferred to the Pacific war zone, arriving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, early in May. The new cruiser was soon in action, taking part in the Marianas Campaign in June, July and August 1944 as part of Task Force 58.
		Vincennes continued to operate with the fast carriers during the Palaus Campaign in September, strikes in the Western Pacific in October, the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 24-25 October, and operations connected with the Philippines Campaign from November 1944 into January 1945.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/cl64.htm (1026 words)

	USS Vincennes CA-44 News: Task Force 16 Citation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		ABOARD USS TARAWA, Western Pacific -- The Tarawa Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) stopped near the Solomon Islands recently for a wreath-laying ceremony, their latest stop on a path through the Pacific that has become a memorial trail of U.S. involvement in World War II.
		Ceremonies were held aboard the ARG’s three ships -- USS Tarawa (LHA 1), USS Duluth (LPD 6) and USS Anchorage (LSD 36) -- to pay respects to the veterans of the many air, land and sea battles known as the Battle of Guadalcanal.
		After the speeches, Wall accompanied Gunther and Tarawa's commanding officer, Capt. Garry Hall to the flight deck, as a Sailor and a Marine dropped the wreath into the same waters that claimed the burning hulks of the heavy cruisers USS Vincennes, USS Astoria and USS Quincy almost 58 years ago.
	www.foxinternet.net /web2/dilbert/vincennes/news/Guadalcanal_Commem.htm (763 words)

	A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		USS JARVIS was the second of the BAGLEY class 1500-tonners to be built at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA.
		She was launched on the same day as USS PATTERSON, May 6, 1937, and was commissioned in October 1937.
		USS JARVIS served with the Pacific fleet in the years before World War II, participating in fleet maneuvers both in the Pacific, off Panama, and in the Caribbean.
	www.destroyers.org /nl-histories/dd393-nl.htm (374 words)

	USN Ships--USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26, later APA-13) -- Part II
		The second column is led by USS Ranger (CV-4), followed by USS Orizaba (AP-24), USS Leonard Wood (AP-25), USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) and USS Vincennes (CA-44).
		The LCM is from USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13), but the ship in the photo is not her.
		USS LCT-533 is passing by in the right middle distance, followed by a "Rhino" tug (RHT).
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-j/ap26-k.htm (800 words)

	DANFS: USS Vincennes (CA-44)
		Vincennes was founded in 1731 or 1732 by soldier-explorer Francois Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, and was the site of old Fort Vincennes, captured twice during the American Revolution--in December 1778 and February 1779--by the Virginian, George Rogers Clark.
		On 1 September 1939--the day on which Hitler's legions marched into Poland and commenced hostilities in Europe--Vincennes lay at anchor off Tompkinsville, N.Y. She then began conducting Neutrality Patrols off the east coast, ranging into the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Yucatan, and continued these duties through the spring of 1940.
		Vincennes' task force returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 May but got underway again on the 29th, bound for waters off Midway Island, which--according to American intelligence reports--a Japanese invasion force was approaching.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/CA/ca44.html (2766 words)

	Raid on Tokyo
		The plan had called for USS Enterprise (CV 6) to provide air combat cover while Hornet was to steam to where Col. Doolittle would lead the B-25s in the strike on Tokyo and other important Japanese cities.
		Originally, the task force intended to proceed to within 400 miles of the Japanese coast; however, on the morning of 18 April a Japanese patrol boat, No. 23 Nitto Maru, sighted Hornet.
		The patrol boat informed the Japanese of the presence and location of the American task force before the cruiser USS Nashville (CL 43) sank the craft.
	www.ussnashville.org /Tokyo_Raid.htm (522 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Wasp (CV 7) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		With USS Walke (DD-416) as her plane guard, Wasp operated out of Guantanamo and Culebra, conducting her maneuvers with an impressive array of warships — Texas, USS Ranger (CV-4), USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), USS Wichita (CA-45) and a host of destroyers.
		Kearny was torpedoed on 17 October, Salinas took a "fish" on the 28th, and in the most tragic incident that autumn, USS Reuben James (DD-246) was torpedoed and sunk with heavy loss of life on 30 October.
		USS Saratoga (CV-3) was still undergoing repairs and modernization after being torpedoed off Oahu in early January 1942.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv07-wasp/cv07-wasp.html (6807 words)

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		USS Yorktown (CV-5) -The definitive history of one of the U.S. Navy's early aircraft carriers.
		We found three photos from almost the exact same angle and were able to contrast the subtle changes from her original outfitting in the summer of 1942, her big refit in 44 and her post war refit.
	floatingdrydock.com /books.html (12840 words)

	Doolittle's Raiders and the Story of the USS Hornet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		To accomplish this, the aircraft carrier USS HORNET, CV-8, on February 2, 1942, successfully launched two Army Air Force B-25 bombers from its flight deck, in the Atlantic Ocean, off Norfolk, Virginia.
		A welcome sight came on the morning of April 13, in the form of the USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 and her screen of ships, sent to escort the HORNET on the last leg of her mad dash to Japan.
		In addition, the submarines USS Thresher and USS Trout were operating off the Japanese coast, watching for enemy fleet movements and weather conditions.
	sandysq.gcinet.net /uss_salt_lake_city_ca25/dolittle.htm (1620 words)

	USS Vincennes CA-44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Welcome the Internet home of the USS Vincennes CA-44.
		Banner advertisements are present and are of carefully selected vendors who provide valuable services pertaining to crewmembers, historians, and the general public.
		Please take the time to view the pages of all the ships named USS Vincennes within this site.
	www.foxcomm.net /web2/dilbert/vincennes/ca-44/index.htm (98 words)

	Were the Best Good Enough?
		Two IJN CAs, one CL and nine DDs scattered about the area moved to intercept, sinking the two intruders.
		The USN forces sank one CA and one DD and severely damaged a second CA, handing the IJN its first defeat in a surface engagement, but failing to intercept the supply run.
		During the action, one CA may have conducted a launch of at least 2 Type 93 torpedoes, scoring 0 hits.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-067.htm (4156 words)

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		At San Diego, on 02 October 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went aboard USS Houston (CA30), for a remarkable 'fishing trip'.
		But not so many years later, in the combat darkness of 09Aug42, the wood and canvas aircraft became torches which lit up their mother ships and made them glowing targets for Japanese cruisers and destroyers.
		Astoria, along with USS Quincy (CA-39), USS Vincennes (CA-44) and HMAS Canberra, were all lost in that battle off Savo Island (Solomons).
	www.caroleestrup.com /frankjamesmorgan.html (1094 words)

	USS Willmarth (DE-638) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The USS Willmarth (DE-638) on 16 May 1944 outside San Francisco Bay.
		The US Navy gave her the name WILLMARTH (DE-638), named for Ensign Kenneth Willmarth, an engineer officer killed aboard the USS VINCENNES (CA-44) during the First Battle of Savo Island in the early hours of August 9, 1942.
		The WILLMARTH, known to the crew as the "Mighty Willy," was the first DE commissioned with ten 20MMs (guns 20-9 and 20-10 were mounted on the fantail).
	www.de220.com /DE%20Index/DE638%20Willmarth/USS%20Willmarth%20(DE-638).htm (899 words)

	USS Vincennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The third Vincennes (CL-64) was a light cruiser commissioned in 1944 and active in the war and in 1946.
		Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655 : A Personal Account of Tragedy and Terrorism
		Capt Rogers was very much in denial about his crew.
	www.freeglossary.com /USS_Vincennes (622 words)

	10-2003 H-B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It has been brought to my attention, we are in sore need of an available small stores printed listing for the convenience of our readers and crew members.
		Stay with us, we few remaining, are the final history existing of the former crew of the USS St.
		Eyewitness accounts from, logs, personal views and overheard conversation while serving as part of marine personnel and Captains orderly on bridge of the USS ST. LOUIS, plus views and thoughts as an operating gunner on 20mm Anti-Aircraft mount, starboard side forward.
	www.ussstlouis.com /oct_hubble-bubble.htm (11344 words)

	USS Vincennes CA-44 Crew
		To submit a name and page to this list of crew member's who perished in the battle of Savo Island
		Listed in the decklog are the names, rates and ranks, dates served aboard, and e-mail addresses of crewmembers who have served aboard the USS Vincennes (CA-44).
		This page will be a place where crewmembers (and their freinds and families) can submit stories, anectdotes, photos, and other items to share their piece of the Vincennes with our visitors.
	www.ussvincennes.org /vincennes/ca-44/44_crew.htm (77 words)

	War of 1812 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		5) U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) from James Madison University http://www.jmu.edu/madison/war1812/ironhist.htm
		6) Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes http://www.project21.org/Tecumseh.html
		This site describes the US ships that proved so effective in the War of 1812.
	www.42explore2.com /1812war.htm (1949 words)

	USS Vincennes CA-44 Plaque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This 9 x 12 walnut-grained memento features a photograph of the Vincennes with a customized data plate highlighting the ship's name, hull number, sailor's name, rank and date of service.
		This handsome plaque is an ideal gift and would be a striking addition to the den or office.
		We will not share your information with anyone under any circumstances!!!!
	www.historyshopping.com /forms/shopping/*ws4d-db-query-QuickShow?plaqueCA44 (169 words)

USS Vincennes (CA-44) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)

USS Vincennes (CA-44)

USS Vincennes (CA-44)
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	HyperWar: USS Vincennes (CA-44) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sunk at Battle of Savo Island, 9 Aug 42
		"Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" -- USS Vincennes
		For crew lists, and reunions see the Veterans Info Page.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/CA/CA-44_Vincennes.html (99 words)

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