From the Sept. 18, 2011, Chicago Tribune.
Earlier this week I was blogging about ten things you might not know about hurricanes on my Cooter's History Thing Blog and one was pertaining to World War II.
In December 1944, a U.S. Navy fleet under Admiral William "Bull" Halsey mistakenly steered right into a typhoon in the Philippine Sea.
Three destroyers sank and dozens of other ships were damaged. Nearly 900 died.
The aircraft carrier Monterey was badly damaged by fire and among those who battled it was one Lt. Gerald Ford.
That Was One Bad Storm. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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