The USS Suwannee also created their own chapter ! During this time Suwannee was transferred from the US 9th Fleet to the 5th Fleet. Escort Carrier Photo Index: USS SUWANNEE (ACV-27) - NavSource She remained in the vicinity of Kwajalein for the first 15 days of February; then spent the next nine days helping out at Eniwetok. She was designated an "Escort Helicopter Aircraft Carrier", CVHE-27, on 12 June 1955, while in reserve. After a few days off San Francisco, she headed for Pier 91, in Seattle, and then on to Bremerton. Delbert S. Cornwell 8 December 1944, Capt. It was kept as a souvenir by the USS Suwannee Less than a month after commissioning, Suwannee, with VGS-27 embarked, stood out of Hampton Roads on 25 October 1942 in Task Group (TG) 34.2, as part of Task Force 34, for Operation Torch, the invasion of Vichy French-held North Africa. On 24 and 25 October 1944, the Japanese launched a major surface offensive from three directions to contest the Leyte Gulf landings. At the bottom of every email sent by HullNumber is an UNSUBSCRIBE link. ALL HANDS Article Title. the National Archives and Records Administration On 24 and 25 October 1944, the Japanese launched a major surface offensive from three directions to contest the landings at Leyte Gulf. Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo # 80-G-39316. Benham and Preston followed. Crew members of Suwannee were given shore leave during their stay and observed the devastation of ground zero first hand. accident apparently was caused by the explosion of a 100# bomb in the bomb bay." For the next seven months (during which time she was re-designated to an escort aircraft carrier, CVE-27, effective 15 July 1943), she provided air escort for transports and supply ships replenishing and bolstering the marines on Guadalcanal, as well as for the forces occupying other islands in the Solomons group. at Balikpapan, Borneo. Originally, she was known as the SS Markay, built for the Keystone Tankship Corp. by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. of Kearny, N.J. She was assigned to the Atlantic Inactive Fleet later that month. Navy Unit Records Research. Shifting thence to Baytown, Texas, she took on cargo, after which she took departure on 15 October. Flight deck poster made by an AMM, B.L. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National D. Sample, USN, presents Bronze Star to Lieutenant Commander James C. Longino, who also received Official U.S. On 4 August, she cleared the Marianas for Eniwetok and Seeadler Harbor, reaching the latter port on 13 August. Suwannee has too long gone untold. The USS Suwannee was a member of the Sangamon class of escort aircraft carriers. 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. National Archives and Records Administration (Place your cursor over any of the ribbons at the top, the battle stars at left, or the Suwannee image to see a description. Hostilities ended on 15 August, but Suwannee remained at Okinawa, for the next three weeks. Portland was torpedoed in the stern in that action and had to be towed to Australia for temporary repairs. 2023 United States Navy Memorial. Converted to an aircraft carrier at Newport News, Va. Reclassified as an "Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier" and redesignated ACV-27, 20 August 1942. Port quarter aerial view of USS Suwannee (CVE-27) underway, March 1943. 1943. USS Suwannee CVE 27 and Related Air Groups Reunion Association. USS HOPEWELL DD 681: Reunite With 8 Other Veterans | VetFriends.com Seventy-seven sailors, including Rear Admiral Callaghan and Capt. 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. CARKOSKI . Prepared by CAPT R. O. The plane bears traces of the yellow Operation Torch Engaged in the Pacific operations as of 10 November, were 489 ships having space for slightly under 700,000 passengers. listens to confessions of a crew member. The first one crashed into Santee; and, 30 seconds later, Suwannee splashed a kamikaze during his run on Petrof Bay. Air Raids in the Pacific, 1 July 1945. Following the occupation of the Gilberts, the escort carrier returned to the United States, via Pearl Harbor, arriving in San Diego on 21 December. by Robert C. Stern. US Navy Crew List - Reunite with old Navy Buddies - 346432 entries available online. Naval Shipyard. From 1923 November, she was a part of the Air Support Group of the Southern Attack Force, and her planes bombed Tarawa, while the ships in the Northern Attack Force engaged the enemy at Makin. Suwannee remained in reserve at Boston for the next 12 years. At 0151, she trained her guns on a small cruiser or large destroyer 3,300 yards off her starboard bow. suicide plane streaks out of clouds in an 80-degree dive. Your ORIGINAL HOMETOWN and State are asked for because that confirms who you are in your shipmate's memories. Her fires made an easier target and shells came in from both port and starboard. by Robert C. Stern. USS Suwannee (CVE-27) - Wikipedia Keystone Tankship Corp., in turn delivered the vessel at Baltimore, Maryland. Pilots waiting for summons, (left The carrier reentered San Pedro Bay, Leyte, on 6 July and spent the next month there. Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS Santee (AO 29). Survivors were noted in the water by accompanying ships but due to risk of further submarine attack, no other ships of the task force stayed in the area to rescue survivors. National Archives & Records Administration photo, # 19-N-2429?. Since the first meeting in 1988, our reunion opportunity to get together . 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. Research Guide: Crew Lists and Muster Rolls - Navy Looking for US Navy memorabilia? Photo and text from Fire From The Sky, and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349218. She remained in the vicinity of Kwajalein for the first 15 days of February, then spent the next nine days helping out at Eniwetok. SUWANNEE (CVE-27) Crew Roster The escort carriers put into Kossol Roads in the Palaus on 28 October, then headed for Manus for upkeep on 1 November. She returned to the U.S. at San Diego in October and, by 5 November 1943 was back at Espritu Santo, with a new air group, CVEG-60 embarked. National Archives and Records Administration Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349248. A. W. Gardes in command 10 January 1947: Decommissioned at the Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Cal. With the Japanese retiring toward Savo Island, Sterett, her after guns and starboard torpedo tubes out of commission, began to withdraw. USS Suwannee (CVE-27) | Military Wiki | Fandom the flight deck during landings. Islands, Philippines, in advance of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Joseph J. They were declared dead on 4 October. Other 14 officers and men were also injured. strike on Balikpapan, Borneo. John M. De Vane, Jr. 29 March 1946, Cmdr. 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. Of seven missing, three were subsequently rescued. Try the Ship's Store. (NARA), # 80-G-349430. Speed, 32.5 Knots, Crew 868. Destroyer Escort Photo Index DE- 402 USS RICHARD S. BULL - NavSource A6M5 Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter Model 52), piloted by Tamisaku Katsumata, during the first For ship's logs and personnel records, see the Reference Page. (CVE-27). During the battle Sterett sustained 11 hits (three were major caliber hits) and several near misses that caused damage. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of At the appearance of an enemy more her size, Sterett tore into the destroyer with her guns and launched two torpedoes. Just after noon on 26 October, another group of kamikazes jumped Taffy 1. [2] His bomb compounded the fracture when it exploded between the flight and hangar decks, tearing a 25ft (7.6m) gash in the latter and causing a number of casualties.[2]. 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. U.S.S. 1 172. (CVE-27) HELL. Structural damage was extensive, but not serious. Soon thereafter, the enemy ceased firing. Men in Uniform - U.S.S. Suwannee If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. She fired on a cruiser to starboard and, in turn, took a terrific pounding from battleship Hiei on her port side. Survivors whoo had previously abandoned ship reboarded the hulk and rescued eight men still aboard and alive, five of whom lived after reaching land. If you contact a Shipmate through HullNumber, your email address is not displayed in the message to your Shipmate. a Japanese suicide plane streaks out of clouds in an 80-degree dive. The escort carrier paused at Pearl Harbor (1623 February), sailing with a new air group, CVEG-40, at Tulagi (414 March, and at Ulithi (2127 March), before arriving off Okinawa on 1 April. Those landings went off without opposition on 15 September, and Suwannee returned to Seeadler Harbor, to prepare for the invasion of the Philippines. Markay was laid down on 3 June 1938 at Kearney, N.J., by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., under a Maritime Commission contract (M.C. She remained there for a week, then returned to the Netherlands East Indies at Makassar Strait to support the landings at Balikpapan, Borneo. The bow cables and hawser held and she remained safely in place by turning the screws to maintain position. Volunteers and Draftees in WWII: (of those inducted, 189,365 remained inductees; 1,359,920 voluntarily enlisted. USS Suwannee (AO 33) Crew List The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Suwannee (AO 33). Survey.). A week later, she put into Espiritu Santo, for four days. Placed in a reserve status with the 16th Fleet at Boston, 28 October 1946. Suwannees planes did not actually become engaged in the famous battle of naval aircraft, because they remained with the invasion forces in the Marianas providing antisubmarine and combat air patrols. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The ship sported the shamrock of Ireland on her forward stack and sailed into World War II with 23 crew members named Sullivan. At 0740 on the 25th, Taffy 1 was jumped by land-based planes from Davao in the first deliberate suicide attack of the war. 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. (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). During that span of time, she visited Guadalcanal, Efate, and Espiritu Santo in addition to New Caledonia. HullNumber.com does not retain your payment information if you make a purchase. There are no crew members who signed this Crew List. (NARA) photo, # 80-G-270615. Home Join Now About Hullnumber Before You Register Tell A Shipmate FAQs Related Links Contact Us. Explosion in the background resulted from a carrier-plane Add yours! Filling more fields will reduce the number of results. Add yours! The leaflets were dropped on the Japanese installations located on the Visayas Early in the morning of 8 November, she arrived off the coast of Morocco and, for the next few days, her Wildcat fighters maintained combat and antisubmarine air patrols, while her Avengers joined Rangers in bombing missions. Suwannee and all the other ships in port experienced very difficult circumstances when typhoon Ida hit on 17 September. WWII VF-60 USN Fighter Pilot DFC Group USS SUWANNEE , TAFFY 1 Prepared by CAPT R. O. 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. In 1977 the vessel was acquired by the City of Buffalo as a memorial and is on display at the Buffalo and ErieCounty Naval & Servicemen's park. 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. USS SUWANNEE (CVE-27) Crew Roster UNDERWAY! "At 1042, Thursday 24 May 1945 TBM-3 [Avenger] Bureau Number 68368 Cruiser Photo Index CL-40 USS BROOKLYN - NavSource 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. Charles C. McDonald 2 September 1945, Cmdr. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National 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. This a chronological list of named operations involving aircraft carriers combining USN, RN, and IJN operations for Atlantic and Pacific theaters. 2010 - USS Suwannee CVE-27 - doczz.net On 7 September, Van Valkenburgh stood out of Buckner Bay, in company with Anthony, Wadsworth, Beale, and Ammen, as screen for the carriers Suwannee, Chenango, Cape Gloucester, and the cruiser Birmingham, bound for Japan and occupation duty in the erstwhile enemy's waters. Joseph R. Lannom 16 July 1941, Capt. Her repairs were completed by 31 January 1945; and, after brief stops at Hunter's Point and Alameda, Calif., she headed west and back into the war. She provided air support for the assault forces with ASW and CAPs and strikes against Japanese installations ashore. (NARA), photo # 80-G-270617.