| Task
Group |
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Operations |
Date |
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1944 |
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| TG 22.2 |
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Dep Norfolk, VA for
Bermuda (for ASW training exercises) |
15 Jul |
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Arrv Bermuda |
19 Jul |
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Dep Bermuda (for ASW
operations) |
20 Jul |
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Arrv Bermuda (for provisioning) |
10 Aug |
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Dep Bermuda |
12 Aug |
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Rtn Norfolk (for repairs
and alterations) |
27 Aug |
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Captain Daniel V. Gallery
relieved of Command of USS Guadalcanal by Captain B. C. McCaffree,
USN |
16 Sep |
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Dep Norfolk for Baltimore,
MD |
19 Sep |
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Arrv Baltimore (for
leave, liberty and recreation) |
20 Dep |
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Dep Baltimore for Norfolk |
23 Sep |
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Arrv Norfolk |
24 Sep |
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| Units:
USS Guadalcanal, VC-19, USS Pillsbury, USS Chatelain, USS
Pope, USS Flaherty, USS Neunzer, Destroyer Division 4 in USS Pillsbury |
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| Results:
no sinkings |
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A TBF (VT #21 Bu
24511) settled into the water moments after launching from the
catapult. Approximately 5 to 10 seconds after landing there
was a tremendous explosion causing complete disintegration of
the plane and killing the pilot LT Ogle, A-V(N), USNR; gunner
Robert P. Burr, A-V(S), USNR; and radioman Aubrey Gail White,
ARM1/c; 16 July 1944
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Services
are held for the crew of the TBF lost earlier that day, 16 July
1944 |
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Reaplacement
TBFs are hoisted aboard from a barge while USS Guadalcanal is
anchored off U.S. Air Station, Port Royal Bay, Bermuda, 10 August
1944 |
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Replacement
TBFs are hoisted to the flight deck, 10 August 1944 |
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Replacement
TBFs are lined up on the flight deck, 10 August 1944 |
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CDR
Johnson, Executive Officer of USS Guagalcanal, chatting with Lady
Burghley, wife of Governor of Bermuda, 11 August 1944 |
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LTJG
R. M. McAshan failed to catch a wire and crashed into the island
and caught fire during a night landing. The crew escaped unhurt
except for the pilot, who suffered burns about the face and hands
and laceration requireing hospitalization. The crash cut co-axial
cables on SK (surface search) radar as well as tearing down TBS
and TBL antennas. Fire and wreckage was extinguished within a
few minutes after the crash. The aircraft was pushed over the
side after being stripped of all salvagable parts, 16 August 1944.
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A
sailor operates the plotting board in CIC, 17 August 1944 |
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VC-19
Officers on the flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal, 27 August
1944 |
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VC-19
Enlisted flight crew on the flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal,
27 August 1944 |
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Captain
Daniel V. Gallery presents Letters of Commendation for prompt
action on flight deck fire (16 July 1944) during the Change of
Command Ceremony at which he was relieved by Captain B. C. McCaffree,
16 September 1944
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Miss
Martha Scott, visits a paitent in Sick Bay while the ship visits
Baltimore, MD, 22 September 1944. Miss Scott made her celebrated
Broadway bow as Emily Webb in the original 1938 production of
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town. She repeated
the role of Emily in the 1940 film version, earning an Oscar nomination.
Scott's subsequent film assignments, notably Cheers for Miss Bishop
(1941) and One Foot in Heaven (1941), found her portraying characters
far older than herself with total credibility. Having previously
played both the wife and the sister of Charlton Heston (nine years
her junior) on stage and TV, Scott portrayed Heston's mother on
the big screen in The Ten Commandments (1955) and Ben-Hur (1959).
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(L
to R) LCDR C. A. Travles, Port Director Baltimore, Miss Frieda
Inescourt, LCDR Johnson, Miss Martha Scott, Mrs. Pruitt, CAPT
B. C. McCaffree and Mrs. Johnson at the Navy League Dance in Baltimore,
22 September 1944
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