My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Monday, April 21, 2014
USS Whitehurst (DE-634): A Followup on Iowa's Norman Ellsworth-- Part 1
From Wikipedia.
On April 18th, I wrote about Norman Ellsworth who died aboard the destroyer escort Whitehurst off Okinawa during a kamihaze attack. Here is a followup on the ship.
The USS Whitehurst (DE-634) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort commissioned 19 November 1943 and named for Henry Purefoy Whitehurst, an ensign on the USS Astoria (CA-34) who was killed at the Battle of Savo Island off Guadalcanal in August 1942.
The ship arrived at Pearl Harbor 4 Feb 1944 and served convoy duty around the Pacific. It was off New Guinea and saw action at Wake Island and continued with escort duty.
Before the Philippines, it was assigned to the anti-submarine/aircraft screen TU77.7.1 to guard fleet oilers and on Oct. 27, 1944, drove off two Japanese planes.
--GreGen
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