#USS George F. Elliott

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USS NEW MEXICO (BB-40) undergoing a refit at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In the background, USS GEORGE F. ELLIOTT (AP-13) and USS MISSISSIPPI (BB-41).

In the background, USS O'BRIEN (DD-415) and USS MENEMSHA (AG-39).

Note: Mark 33 and other gun directors atop her superstructure, FC radar antenna on one of the directors and SC radar antenna mounted at the top of her mainmast. 

Photographed on December 31, 1941.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 19-N-27362, 19-N-27360, 19-N-27357, 19-N-27361, 19-N-27359

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“USS New Mexico (BB-40) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 31 December 1941, just before she deployed to the Pacific.

The camouflaged ship alongside the near side of the next pier is USS George F. Elliott (AP-13). Another BB-40 class battleship is on the other side of that pier.Note: number 40 painted atop New Mexico's second 14/50 triple gun turret; Mark 33 and other gun directors atop her superstructure; FC radar antenna on one of the directors and SC radar antenna mounted at the top of her mainmast.”

(NHHC: 19-N-27362)

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The Midshipmen's Story by Thomas McCaffery

MWSA Review Pending  

Author's Synopsis In 1842 Midshipman Phillip Spencer, USN, son of the Secretary of War, was hung for inciting the crew of USS Somers to mutiny. Since then U.S. Navy midshipmen have not been crew members of any commissioned U.S. Navy ship at any time, but especially in combat. That is, until 1941, when the needs of the oncoming war required a small change in the U.S. Navy's century-old policy. That summer, fifty students at what would become the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, known as Cadet/Midshipmen, were assigned as midshipmen to U.S. Navy amphibious transports. The assignment, as with all midshipmen in history, was originally for training. However, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed everything. On August 7, 1942 six of these midshipmen were on duty at Guadalcanal for America’s first amphibious offensive against the Japanese. Two of them, Edward S. Davis and Robert H. Dudley, were ordered to abandon their ship, USS George F. Elliott, after a Japanese bomber crashed into it, starting an uncontrollable fire. In the aftermath of the Navy’s defeat at Savo Island that night, the transports, and their midshipmen, were forced to retreat to safer waters, leaving the Marines with just half of their supplies and equipment to carry on the fight. But, the Marines couldn’t just be abandoned to their fate. Unable to return to Guadalcanal in force, covert plans were hurriedly improvised by the Navy to resupply them. One of these plans was to slip a former inter-island freighter, M/V Lakatoi, past the watchful Japanese into Guadalcanal. Commissioned USS Lakatoi, the ship and its volunteer Navy crew, including Midshipmen Edward Davis and Robert Dudley, set sail on a desperate, impossible mission from which none of its crew believed they would return. In summing up their remarkable story, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey wrote, “The Commanding Officer and members of the crew of the U. S. S. LAKATOI displayed fortitude and heroism in keeping with the best traditions of the service.”

ISBN/ASIN: 978-1-7363326-2-7,978-1-7363326-0-3,978-1-7363326-1-0

Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle

Review Genre: Fiction—Historical Fiction

Number of Pages: 254

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Marines in Panama, 1903-04 (Part II)

Marines in Panama, 1903-04 (Part II) by @VeteransTales @Mustang45LIVE

Fix Bayonets! by Mustang

But what most people do not know …

On 18 December 1903, Secretary of the Navy William Moody directed the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Brigadier General George F. Elliott [1], to personally report to the President of the United States.  His orders from President Roosevelt were to proceed in person, taking passage aboard USS Dixie, from League Island to Colón, Panama. …

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“Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water.”

(NHHC: NH 69114)

[lex-for-lexington]

“USS New Mexico (BB-40) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 31 December 1941, just before she deployed to the Pacific.

The camouflaged ship alongside the near side of the next pier is USS George F. Elliott (AP-13). Another BB-40 class battleship is on the other side of that pier. Note: number 40 painted atop New Mexico's second 14/50 triple gun turret; Mark 33 and other gun directors atop her superstructure; FC radar antenna on one of the directors and SC radar antenna mounted at the top of her mainmast. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.” 

(NHHC: 19-N-27362)

[lex-for-lexington]

“Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water.”

(NHHC: NH 69114)