Re: Battle of Kolombangara 7/12-13 1943

Posted by Deutz Lover on July 12, 2019 at 20:07:35 from (66.172.80.74):

In Reply to: Battle of Kolombangara 7/12-13 1943 posted by Ultradog MN on July 12, 2019 at 05:15:22:

From what I have read the First Battle of Savo Island was the worst naval defeat we suffered after Pearl Harbor when we lost three heavy cruisers in a night time action. A lot of these were night time actions and the crews were new to radar and had difficulties distinguishing ships from clutter due to the islands. One of my uncles by marriage lost a brother when the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes was sunk.

They made up for it later when the USS Washington totally wasted the Japanese battleship Kirishima during the naval battle of Guadalcanal. In total the Japanese lost two battleships, one heavy cruiser and a number of destroyers. We lost two light cruisers and a number of destroyers. We would have probably done even better if the battleship South Dakota had not had communications and power problems. She got shelled, but this allowed the Washington to escape notice until she bracketed and ranged the ships in the Japanese squadron. Again this was a night time action.

I had another uncle who was on the Destroyer USS Pritchett (DD-561) radar picket station nine) during the Kamikaze attacks off of Okinawa. They were recovering survivors from the Destroyer Callaghan when a kamikaze went down about ten feet on the left side of her stern. The blast bowed in her hull and damaged her superstructure, but she was able to keep on recovering survivors for two more hours. I think seeing the Callaghan go down and the other ensuing attacks had a profound lifetime affect on him.

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