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The transport settled by the bow and began filling rapidly with water and the order was given to abandon ship. Sank with Captain Smith and approximately 100 seamen. [14] USS John Penn (APA-23) was sunk by enemy action off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal on 13 August 1943. USS Hinsdale (APA-120) had kamikaze attack damage on 1 April 1945 at Okinawa ...
USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50/APA-22), formerly SS Excalibur, was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War II commanded by Captain Robert McLanhan Smith Jr. A part of the Center Attack Group of Admiral Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, Operation Torch, Joseph Hewes was sunk on November 11, 1942 by the German submarine U-173 in Fedala Roads off French Morocco coast during the ...
The ship returned to Sasebo on 10 November and then got underway for San Francisco. [1] The attack transport remained at San Francisco from 1 December 1950 to 24 January 1951 when she headed directly to Pusan with troops and cargo. She off-loaded between 8 and 10 February; returned to the United States; and was back at Pusan on 2 April.
USS Charles Carroll (APA-28) was a Crescent City-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Charles Carroll was named after a signatory to the American Declaration of Independence .
USS Hinsdale (APA-120) had Kamikaze attack damage on 1 April 1945 at Okinawa. Over 15 men were killed. The extensive engine room damage was later repaired. USS Telfair (APA-210) on 2 April 1945 was hit by kamikaze attack, the plane hit the side of the ship then dropped into the sea. She was later repaired.
USS Zeilin (APA-3) On the 13th, a Japanese plane came out of the clouds off the ship's port bow, apparently intent on crashing into Warren. Antiaircraft guns opened fire. While still several hundred yards away from the attack transport, the plane leveled off, swooped directly over Warren and headed for attack transport USS Zeilin (APA-3).
USS Calvert (APA-32) was a Crescent City-class attack transport that served with the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. In addition to her ten battle stars , Calvert was awarded a Navy Unit Commendation .
It can also mean the instance in which an aircraft taxis down a runway, gaining a certain speed, and must become airborne in lieu of a crash or explosion on the runway —for example, Charles Lindbergh's takeoff in The Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 in which there was uncertainty about the plane's ability to take off from a 5,000-foot mud-soaked ...