USS Santee (CVE-29) (originally launched as AO-29, then ACV-29) was an American escort carrier. The second ship with this name, it was launched on 4 March...
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in 1820 but not completed until 1855. USS Santee (1905) was a freighter, launched as Arvonian USS Santee (CVE-29) was acquired in 1940 as a fleet oiler...
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(DE-183) USS Sandoval (APA-194) USS Sangamon (CVE-26) USS Santee (CVE-29) USS Savo Island (CVE-78) USS Sederstrom (DE-31) USS Shubrick (DD-639) USS Sims (DE-154)...
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escort carrier groups, Task Group 21.11 centered on the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29). With that group, she covered the Norfolk, Virginia-to-Casablanca...
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Chenango (CVE- CVEG-35: VF-35,VT-35 USS Santee (CVE-29) CVEG-26: VF-36, VT-36 USN Task Group 78.2 (Davison) CarDiv24: USS Natoma Bay (CVE- VC-63 USS Coral...
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USS Bonita (SS-165) USS Langley (CV-1) USS Long Island (CVE-1) USS Sangamon (CVE-26) USS Suwannee (CVE-27) USS Chenango (CVE-28) USS Santee (CVE-29) USS Charger (CVE-30)...
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Citation for serving in nine battles on the escort aircraft carrier USS Santee (CVE-29) where his duties included playing alto saxophone and clarinet in...
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2018. "Data" (PDF). media.defense.gov. 2017. Tinoko, PO2 Maebel (2007-08-29). "USS Parche Dedicates Sail to Puget Sound Navy Museum NNS070828-19". Navy News...
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served aboard the USS Santee (CVE-29) and who later became a nuclear scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The destroyer-escort USS Mason was the only...
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conversion of the oil tanker Santee into an escort carrier. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to commander. Assuming command of Santee on her commissioning...
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some sources credit I-56 with torpedoing the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29), Santee was off Samar and was not part of the task group I-56 attacked...
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During the war, he served as a radarman on board the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29). While on tour, Prince taught algebra to other radar men and would...
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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...
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USS Sangamon (CVE-26) was a US Navy escort carrier of World War II. Originally Esso Trenton, a T3 tanker oiler, built by the Federal Shipbuilding and...
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burning Logan Victory was scuttled USS LSM-59 sank while escorting fleet tug USS Lipan (ATF-85) with USS Barry (APD-29) in tow. Barry was damaged twice...
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List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II (section Aircraft carrier, escort (CVE))
The casualties for 25–26 October were 107 dead and 160 wounded. USS Santee (CVE- 29) was sailing as part of "Taffy 1" off the northern coast of Mindanao...
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and broken up in mid-1960. Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Block Island (CVE-106). Friedman 1986, pp. 107–111. Friedman 1983, p. 199. Stille...
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echelon departed on 2 June 1944, on the USS Santee (CVE-29). The squadron's ground personnel were split between the USS Cetus (AK-77), SS Typhoon, and the...
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1944 and remained until 1 June 1944 when they embarked on the USS Santee (CVE-29), USS Cetus (AK-77) and a few other ships for a voyage to Guam. The successful...
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underway to screen a unit of TF-51 built around Makin Island (CVE-93) and Santee (CVE-29). Wesson took station in the screen operating in Kii Suido. After...
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USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) was the twenty-sixth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named...
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(AVG-4/BAVG-4) – went to the RN as HMS Charger (D27), later returned to USN as USS Charger (CVE-30) No USN name given (AVG-5/BAVG-5) – went to the RN as HMS Dasher...
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Carrier Division 22 which contained escort carriers Santee (CVE-29), Chenango (CVE-28), and Block Island (CVE-106). As these small carriers steamed toward Sakishima...
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Atlantic Theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II (section Escort carrier (CVE) development (1940-1944))
and December 1943, hunter-killer groups built around CVEs USS Card, USS Bogue, USS Core, USS Santee, HMS Tracker, and HMS Biter sank a total of 31 U-boats...
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List of United States Navy ships: S (redirect from USS Somerset (1917))
YFB-33) USS Santa Rosalia (ID-1503) USS Santa Teresa (ID-3804) USS Santaquin (YTB-824) USS Santee (1855, 1905, AO-29/AVG-29/ACV-29/CVE-29/CVHE-29) USS Santiago...
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carriers USS Santee (CVE-29)—the first ship ever damaged by a deliberate kamikaze crash—USS Suwannee (CVE-27), USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71), and USS Kalinin...
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than a seaplane tender. USS Long Island. Includes HMS Archer that was transferred on 17 November 1941. Includes thirty-eight CVEs that were constructed...
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departed Pearl Harbor in the screen of Sangamon (CVE-26), Suwannee (CVE-27), Chenango (CVE-28), and Santee (CVE-29), and arrived in Purvis Bay near Guadalcanal...
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Islands. Includes SPT USS Langley, CVE USS Long Island, CVE HMS Audacity, CVE HMS Archer, and CVE IJN Taiyo. Includes SPT USS Langley. Archer became...
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Battle off Samar (section USS Johnston)
May 27, 2021 – via bosamar.com. Hornfischer 2004, pp. 198–201. "USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68): Action Report of 25 October 1944". U.S. Navy. n.d. Archived...
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