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National Archives and Records Administration Suwannee CVE-27 during World War II. She was finally scrapped in Bilbao, Spain, in June 1962. Additional Information Page. After operating for six months as an oiler with the Atlantic Fleet, Suwannee was designated an "Aircraft Escort Vessel", AVG-27, on 14 February 1942, and decommissioned, on 21 February, at Newport News, Virginia, for conversion to a Sangamon-class escort carrier. Just before 07:00, on 25 October, one of Kadashan Bay's planes reported a Japanese force of four battleships, eight cruisers, and 11 destroyers. Prepared by CAPT R.O. Suddenly, from the battleship whose bridge she had shot away, came a salvo of 14-inch guns, swamping the crippled destroyer. Frederick W. McMahon 21 January 1943, Capt. In mid-January Suwannee unloaded many grateful troops in Los Angeles, and then headed north. 2010 - USS Suwannee CVE-27 - doczz.net For the major portion of the next 77 days, her planes continued to deny the enemy the use of those facilities. John M. De Vane, Jr. 29 March 1946, Cmdr. Delbert S. Cornwell 8 December 1944, Capt. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman. Survivors whoo had previously abandoned ship reboarded the hulk and rescued eight men still aboard and alive, five of whom lived after reaching land. She joined Ranger as the other carrier attached to the Center Attack Group whose specific objective was Casablanca, itself, via Fedhala, just to the north. On 12 October 1944, the escort carrier got underway from Manus in Rear Adm. Thomas L. Spragues Escort Carrier Group to provide air support for the landings at Leyte Gulf. On 20 August 1942, Suwannee was re-designated again, to an auxiliary aircraft carrier, ACV-27. The escort carriers put into Kossol Roads in the Palaus on 28 October, then headed for Manus for upkeep on 1 November. Photo and text from U.S. Laffey lashed out at the enemy with gunfire and torpedoes. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. Sponsored by Mrs. Alleta Sullivan, the mother of the five Sullivan brothers, USS THE SULLIVANS (DD 537) was commissioned on September 30. HyperWar: US Navy Oilers & Tankers, 1940-45 - ibiblio USS Suwanee (1864), a double-ended side-wheel gunboat commissioned in February 1865, sent in pursuit of Confederate States Navy commerce raiders until the end of the American Civil War, and wrecked in 1868 USS Suwanee (1897), the United States Lighthouse Service lighthouse tender USLHT Mayflower, which served the U.S . They hit the enemy; but he rolled over, dove at Suwannee, and crashed her about 40 feet forward of the after elevator, opening a 10-foot hole in her flight deck. Joseph J. (NARA), # 80-G-349435. Comments, Suggestions or Image submissions, E-mail Carrier Information Almost a month later, on 10 September, she put to sea to support the landings on Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies.
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