During the lull in the battle, my thoughts turned to the men topside, who were directly engaged in the battle: the gun crews, ammunition handlers, gun loaders, machine gunners, torpedo-men, the officers directing them, and those involved in directing the ship. United Nations Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Korea War Service Medal.[1]. Though Marblehead had been knocked out of action and Houston and De Ruyter damaged, Doorman still had a sizable fighting force under his command. She engaged in maneuvers with the battleship divisions off Guantanamo Bay from 12 January until her return to Philadelphia 27 April. She was then transferred to the Army where she served as USAT General John Pope. AP-110 - USS General John Pope - Booklet of General Plans, 1943, General John Pope Class Troop Transport, ap110.pdf (8.1 MB PDF) AP-130 - USS General G.O. Gobe, RNN), HrMs TM-5 (S.Lt. Steerage could now be re-established by varying the speed of the two propeller shafts. Our aerial gunners would return the fire but with no apparent success. After the crew started to hit the water, Mr. Antrim, the executive officer, appeared on the fantail, and asked "who's going to volunteer to help me blow up the ship?" Japanese surface and air forces launched an attack the next morning, midway between the islands of Java and Borneo. K. Kikkawa) Arashio (Cdr. Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel. The Trinity Of Jewish Control: The City Of London, The Vatican And Washington DC. Eighteen days later on 24 June 1966, the 503rd PIR disembarked at Vung Tau, South Vietnam. By bleeding the hydraulic lines and yoking the rudder gears with chains Goggins and the damage control parties were able to lock the rudder amidships. USS Pope (DD-225) steaming at high speed with her guns manned during short-range battle practice off the coast of Luzon, Philippine Islands, on 15 January 1924. She received two battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for her World War II service. Pope made visits to French Indochina in 1935 and in 1938, two visits to Japan in 1934 and 1935 and one to the Dutch East Indies in 1936. During 1921 she alternated between her winter base at Charleston, South Carolina and her summer one at Newport, Rhode Island and escorted President Warren G. Harding to Plymouth, Massachusetts 30 July 1 August. I felt assured that our well trained crew would give their all, even though the task was hot and demanding. USS Pope (DD-225) underway off Surabaya in company with the British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, shortly before her loss, circa February 1942. The Allied ships worked gradually to the southward and westward eventually steering 260 degrees. We saw no more of either of the British ships, as by now we were attempting a run to freedom. Eventually she was found and disabled and brought to a halt by damage received from aircraft from the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo.She was finally sunk by gunfire around 1440 hours from the Ashigara and the Myoko. About ten minutes later the word came to abandon ship, an order we had hoped we would never hear on our ship. I would answer the annunciator from the bridge and adjust the throttle accordingly, giving the bridge the speed it was requesting. Sailing of these ships from Surabaya and course to follow. By now most of us realized we were going to lose the ship: "we were finished". J.E. The first wave came from Tjilatjap on the south coast of Java and consisted of the Dutch light cruisers HrMs De Ruyter (Cdr. Hit by two or . In the evening of the 19th they departed for Badoeng Strait. For 48 tense hours Marblehead fish-tailed across the Flores Sea, kept afloat with pumps and bucket brigades and steered by continuous revolution changes communicated over a jury-rigged phone line. Others made contact with the natives of Java, who alerted the Japanese to the sailors' presence. Both destroyers then retired to the south-east to return to Tjilatjap. I prefer to believe the latter. Newsletter Archive. US Navy Roughly 250 feet long and displacing about 1,200 tons submerged, U-505 was a Type IXC U-boat with a crew of 60. They sailed from Surabaya in the afternoon of the 19th. Pope was initially placed in reduced . When the two Japanese destroyers entered the Strait they encountered the four US destroyers. This humanitarian decision by Lieutenant Commander Shunsaku Kud placed Ikazuchi at risk of attack, and it interfered with her fighting ability, due to the sheer load of rescued sailors. In the evening of 28 February 1942, Exeter and the two destroyers left Soerabaja and proceeded north. But to reach that target the ABDA force would have to cross the Flores Sea this day in broad daylight. Following the lost battle of the Java Sea Surabaya was evacuated. When the stern of the ship was completely under water, and the bow pointing to the sky, an eight inch salvo from one of the cruisers hit her at the waterline, which tended to speed up her sinking. Besides the ships themselves their crews were also suffering from fatigue due the immense strain they had been under the past weeks. Eccles, USN). Many was the time that I would look at the 3/8" steel plate that was the skin or bulkhead of the ship, and expect at any moment to see a shell penetrating it. gun mounted on the fantail, we had four 50 caliber machine guns mounted on the galley (gun) deck, one four inch gun on the fore deck, two four inch guns on the galley deck, and one on the after deck house. March 14, 2019. Around this time all the Allied ships also engaged Japanese destroyers with gunfire. The Philippines were falling as outnumbered American land forces retreated down the Bataan Peninsula. HMS Encounter could not make a torpedo attack, she had none on board having fired all her torpedoes during the Battle of the Java Sea. The prospect of our being spotted by enemy spotter planes was great as we were steaming in waters where the enemy was out in force. M. Ogura). G. Yoshii), Oshio (Cdr. Ethereum's Shanghai Hard Fork Now Has Official Target Date Developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals Apr 12, 2023. Heavy Cruisers Of Ww2 - The armament of the Des Moines class is relatively unchanged from that of the earlier Baltimore class cruiser. The Allied squadron was discovered by Japanese cruiser float planes whose spotting of their cruisers' gunfire nullified the effectiveness of the Allied destroyers' attempt to conceal Exeter with a smoke screen. HMS Exeter sank around 1150 hours. The main body of the allied Asiatic fleet attached to the Dutch East Indies under the command of a dutch admiral Doornan, left Surbaja Java on the night of Feb 26, 1942 to engage an enemy fleet in the Java Sea. Photo No. The Dutch destroyer HrMs Witte de With (Lt.Cdr. The first part of the night of 28 February / 1 MArch was uneventful. [5] Pope remained afloat long enough to be sunk about 2pm[6] by the sixth salvo of a Japanese cruiser arriving on the scene. Unfortunately they are spotted by Japanese warships and the Exeter and Encounter are sunk during the following engagement. Three tests were envisioned for Operation Crossroads: a Hiroshima-like burst (Able shot), a shallow underwater burst (Baker), and a deeply submerged explosion (1000-2000 feet below the surface). It was expected that the Japanese would soon land (night of 19/20 February 1942) on the south-east coast of Bali (Badoeng Strait). After securing the turbine, we slowed down, and we took on water more rapidly. It would mean a break in the monotony, but it could just as well be certain death. [7][8] The survivors from Encounter and Exeter were to be more fortunate, as those that were not rescued right after the battle on 1 March[9] by the destroyer Inazuma,[10] were rescued the following day by the Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi, who picked up the last 400 odd survivors from those two ships on 2 March. General John Pope reactivated 17 August 1965 to serve again as a civilian-crewed ship of MSTS, operating from San Francisco. P. van Rees, RNN), HrMs TM-8 (Lt. J.G. Taih (, "Great Phoenix") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. General John Pope: Glenn G. Griswold: General LeRoy Eltinge: Glynn: General Maurice Rose - See "Admiral Hugh Rodman" Golden City: General M. B. Stewart: Goodhue: General M. C. Meigs: Goshen: . We were assigned to patrol the minefields outside the entrance to the harbor of Surbaja. 1 Mar 1942 : At the Battle of the Java Sea, slightly damaged cruiser HMS Exeter, destroyer HMS Encounter, and destroyer USS Pope at 0850 hours. The third wave then entered the Strait. Destroyers of World War TwoWhitley, M. J. After steaming north into the Java sea, then veering west and steaming the balance of the night, we were greeted by a bright sunny day. Rear-Admiral Doorman therefore wanted to attack them in three waves. Very attractive oak framed stained glass window panel. During the Second Battle of the Java Sea, Pope and HMSEncounter were directed to escort the severely damaged British cruiser HMSExeter away from the action. Framed stained glass panel. On 7 July 1967, the General John Pope departed U.S. The nervous reactions, while engaged in battle, made it seem even hotter. From 15 July to 20 September 1938, she cruised in Chinese waters off Chinwangtao and returned 5 June 1939 with the South China Patrol force removing American consulates and nationals. Navy muster rolls from 1860 to 1939 are found in two different series in Record Group 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel: Muster Rolls of Ships, 1860-1900 (Entry PI-123 132; National Archives Identifier 563603 ) This series is arranged in three chronological segments (1860-1879, 1880-1891, and 1892 . We in the engine room were surprised when told that we were surrounded by enemy ships, thirteen to be exact, five cruisers and eight destroyers. The explosion also bent our port propeller shaft, which sent a strong vibration throughout the ship. Targets were engaged by HMS Exeter whenever these were sighted through the smoke but it was seldom to fire more then four or five salvoes at a time. At this point, the skipper had one of the crewmen lie down on his back with a pair of binoculars. I should mention at the time the word was passed to abandon ship, one of the men was overly anxious to get over the side and jumped into the water. HNLMSWitte de With was unable to recall her crew from shore leave in time to join their retreat to Ceylon. The Oshio on her turn was seriously damaged by the Tromp. H.P. Otis Elevator Vintage. On May 15, 1944, antisubmarine task force TG 22.3, consisting of the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) and the destroyer escorts USS Pillsbury, USS Pope, USS Chatelain, USS Jenks, and USS Flaherty, departed Norfolk for a patrol near the Canary Islands. In the early fall, another voyage out of San Francisco 14 August brought General John Pope on a troop rotation run to New Guinean ports; and subsequently, after embarking 5,000 Army troops at San Pedro, California, she sailed via Melbourne for Bombay. Repairs however were under way and while at sea speed could eventually be increased to 23 knots. She sailed on to Da Nang to disembark remaining elements of the 3rd Marine Regiment. After a few minutes the mistake was noticed and both Japanese destroyer retired up the Strait to the north. Cooper, USN) and USS Pope (Lt.Cdr. Commanded by Captain Daniel V. Gallery, the task force was alerted to the presence of U-boats in the area by Allied . (Map developed from Dull, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The message received was to " Defend the Isle of Java to the Last. Up to 900 men initially survived the sinking, but many succumbed to shark attacks, dehydration, and salt poisoning as they awaited . The wreck of USS Pope was located and identified in December 2008 by the dive vessel MV Empress, approximately 60 nautical miles (110km) from the wreck of HMS Exeter, which Empress discovered in 2007. Pope was heavily engaged in fighting in the Dutch East Indies in the early days of World War II. General John Pope debarked them at Nouma 23 December and returned via Pago Pago to San Francisco 10 January 1944 with 2,500 veterans. She proceeded to receive temporary repairs here in Surbaja. was also part of this force but acted as 'rescue boat'. By now the cruisers had launched their planes (s.o.c. On 4 June 1944, a hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captured the German submarine U-505. Marblehead's rudder jammed full aport, sending the cruiser into a tight 22-knot circle. During three consecutive months, November and December 1966, and January 1967, the General John Pope, along with the USNSGeneral Daniel I. Sultan, transported U.S. military troops to Southeast Asia. This destroyer was then engaged with gunfire at ranges between 20000 and 14000 yards. As the Dutch naval base at Surabaya was now under daily air attack it was deemed wise to sent the Tromp to Australia for repairs. P.B.M van Straelen, RNN), escorted by the Dutch destroyers HrMs Piet Hein (Lt.Cdr. In addition to the motor whaleboat, we had our wherry (smaller boat), three cork rafts, and our life jackets to face whatever fate might bring. When north of Bali she went to full speed and returned to Surabaya for repairs. Lacking air cover, Dutch RADM Karel W.F. Soon she was illuminated by a searchlight and the Japanese opened fire. At 0200 hours, course was altered to 345 degrees. Getting back to the action itself, while this was taking place, we were being continuously bombed, shelled, and strafed. The vibration became so strong, coupled with the high rpm's the turbines were turning, that the ship felt like it was shaking to pieces. I would pray to the good lord silently to protect the crewmen from injury and the ship from destruction. H.E. . He heard the staccato reports of anti-aircraft guns, the pounding of the 3" batteries and felt the heel of the cruiser as CAPT Arthur G. Robinson veered to avoid the aerial bombs. The wreck of USS Pope, DD 225, was located and identified in December 2008 by the dive vessel MV Empress, approximately 60 nautical miles (110km) from the wreck of HMS Exeter, which Empress discovered in 2007. Thy obtained eleven hits on the Tromp causing heavy damage to the Dutch cruiser. Sighting the Asheville alone at dawn on 3 Mar 1942, the Japanese destroyers Arashi and Nowaki, backed up by a heavy cruiser, close for the kill with a 20kt speed advantage and combined 12x 5 guns and 16x 24 torpedoes to Asheville's 3x 4 guns. That, remember, was in the battle of Balikpapan, Borneo, in the straits of Makassar. The 0.25" steel plates, and 0.5" grating that comprise the deck of the engine room, would raise about an inch or so, then drop back in place, most of the time. H. Kuboki) and Michishio (Lt.Cdr. Range to these ships was about 10 nautical miles. The lights went out and Goggins was enveloped in superheated flash gasses that seared the exposed skin on his legs and arms and bubbled paint and linoleum. This is a list of aircraft carriers of the Second World War. They then worked round to the northward and resumed their course of 345 degrees at about 0430 hours. General John Pope then embarked another full complement of troops, including the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, and sailed 6 April for Nouma and Oro Bay, New Guinea. One pair of the enemy cruisers were approximately abeam to starboard and the other pair were on the port quarter. After a refit, Pope departed 12 May for duty in the Pacific. Pope made visits to French Indochina in 1935 and in 1938, two visits to Japan in 1934 and 1935 and one to the Dutch East Indies in 1936. In the Orient, Pope protected American lives and interests during the civil strife in China. Shortly afterwards they heard gunfire. We fully realized that we in a battle for the survival of not only the ship, but of our very lives as well. She was struck from the Naval Register on 26 October 1990. During the torpedo attack a total of fifteen torpedoes were fired, six each by USS Stewart and USS Pope and three by USS Pillsbury. The Allied ships therefore turned stern on to avoid being sighted. Departing Okinawa the following day she arrived at Qui Nhon, South Vietnam on 21 November 1967 and disembarked the 61st Assault Helicopter Company. Schmitz, RNN), HrMs TM-15 (Lt. H.C. Jorissen, RNN). She received two battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for her World War II service. Steam pressure dropped rapidly and in the end the main engines had to be stopped. .Japan remained an innovator in aircraft carrier design and construction during the years leading to World War II, operating nine of them by 1941. . At 1245 hours, Nachi fired once again on HMS Exeter by gunfire. Pius's relations with the Axis and the Allies may have been . We were running a zigzag course and the shells fortunately fell harmlessly into the sea. Course was immediately altered to try to evade and it was though possible that with the advantage of the light HMS Exeter had not been sighted. The survivors had been adrift for about 20 hours - in rafts and lifejackets, or clinging to floats, many coated in oil, and some blinded. Japanese surface and air forces launched an attack the next morning, midway between the islands of Java and Borneo. J.W. On January 24, 1942 in the early morning during the Battle of Balikpapan four destroyers USS Pope (DD-225), USS Paul Jones (DD-230), USS Parrott (DD-218) and USS John D. Ford (DD-228) . These had already been expended. Meanwhile the Allied second attack wave was nearing the scene of the action. We were, possibly to the man, thinking she went down as all good ships should: fighting. About the only recourse we had left was to fan out our fish and fire them in the general direction of their ships and hope for a lucky hit. On 1 November 1967, the General John Pope again departed Oakland Army Base with elements of the 61st Assault Helicopter Company, the 92nd Assault Helicopter Company, the 134th Assault Helicopter Company, the third packet of the 221st Signal Company (Pictorial) and the 45th Military Intelligence Detachment, arriving in Okinawa on 17 November 1967 for a 24-hour layover. During the course of our patrol, we spotted two ships approaching and were manned and ready to fire on them, when we recognized them as allied ships. The only Asiatic Fleet destroyer that received any . After a refit, Pope departed 12 May for duty in the Pacific. (1). The Exeter's anit-aircraft guns turned loose a salvo and the plane was blown to bits. On exploding, it opened or split some of the plated near the stern, and water began pouring into the after section. The veteran transport was returned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) and entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia, Washington, 5 September 1958. Many of us found time to say few prayers of our own. We even had the safety valves lashed down, so they couldn't pop, in an effort to gain some speed, in an attempt to outrun them, all to no avail. The Japanese attack on Bali was carried out by two transport ships Sasako Maru (7180 GRT, built 1941) and Sagami Maru (7189 GRT, built 1940). Boon, RNN(R)), HrMs TM-11 (S.Lt. This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM. They had arrived south of Bali around 0100/20. Though my wound was of a superficial nature, several others received more serious wounds. As HMS Exeter was loosing way, HMS Encounter and USS Pope drew ahead. We now found ourselves in the water. Japanese Aircraft Carriers Ww2 - Instead of the devastating eighteen-inch guns of her two sisters, Shinan's main armament would be forty-seven aircraft, quite stingy compared to the 75-100 aircraft for the large US and Japanese carriers. On 21 July 1967, she arrived in Okinawa to disembark partial elements of the 3rd Marine Regiment. [4] This was to be the start of a long, almost 60 hour ordeal for the men in the water, as the survivors from Pope would not be rescued until almost midnight on 3 March by the Japanese destroyer Inazuma. No enemy aircraft nor ships were seen at daybreak and visibility was extreme. We had received a message from the C-in-C (commander in chief), with the instructions to "defend the isle of Java to the last". Over 16.5 million men and women served in the armed forces during World War II, of whom 291,557 died in battle, 113,842 died from other causes, and 670,846 were wounded. We had, of course, our main battery, four nests of three torpedoes each, two nests on the port and starboard each. In early January 1967, the General John Pope returned to San Francisco Bay. Shortly after their sailing from Surabaya in the evening of the 18th HrMs TM-6 was forced to return due to engine trouble. The US destroyers then set course to the east to leave Badoeng Strait. Suddenly the area exploded into a cloud of debris. During this gunfight the Michishio was heavily damaged and in the end she had to be towed back to Makassar. Pope fired all of her torpedoes and 140 salvoes of naval gunfire. We were forced to stay in Surbaja, tied to the dock, to effect emergency repairs to the hotwell. US Corporations' September 30th fiscal payment deadline Sep 30, 2023 USA Each year around that time, as the payment deadline approaches, we see all sorts of maneuvers. Of the 1068 crew members on the USS Houston, 368 survived the sinking of the ship and the hours-long swim to the shore of Java. Chompff, RNN) and HrMs Kortenaer (Lt.Cdr. A couple minutes later, I guess the Japs realized we were abandoning ship and they ceased firing at us. We then saw a single plane, it was reported as a friendly one. [3] In the evening of 28 February 1942, Exeter and the two destroyers left Soerabaja and proceeded north. We had fought the enemy from about 0800 until about 1350 hours. Pope was initially placed in reduced commission at Philadelphia and assigned to Squadron 3, Division 39 of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Hughes, USN), USS Pillsbury (Lt.Cdr. Sweat ran off our bodies in rivulets. The US destroyer meanwhile continued to retire from the area. Vintage Industrial Cabinet. World War 2 (WW2 WWII) veteran, casualty, and military unit records search by WW2 Researcher Bill Beigel. The German submarine was the first enemy . The Treasures from World War II US Navy Command Files consist primarily of records from the Pacific Theater. After about 15 minutes Piet Hein was illuminated by a Japanese searchlight and taken under fire. Increased tension on China's northern borders due to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria made it necessary for Pope to evacuate Americans from northern Chinese ports such as Lao Yao and Tsingtao to Shanghai beginning 19 September 1937. Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel, William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.). E.V.St J. Morgan, RN) and the US destroyer USS Pope (Lt.Cdr. These Motor Torpedo Boats proceeded through Strait Bali and anchored in three bay's on the Java side to refuel which took the whole day. If you have a small window it would look really nice hung in it! During 1921 she alternated between her winter base at Charleston, South Carolina and her summer one at Newport, Rhode Island and escorted President Warren G. Harding to Plymouth, Massachusetts 30 July 1 August. On board the Exeter the ships engine room staff meanwhile had managed to repair another boiler and speed was increased around 1055 hours to 26 knots. These started making bombing runs at our ship. The attack force consisted of ships of the American, British, and Dutch navies; namely the cruisers USS Houston and Marblehead, the British cruisers HMS Hobart, Exeter, Jupiter, and Express. She was reassigned to Squadron 5, Division 15 on 3 February 1933. Originally built in New Orleans by Higgins Industries, she was a critical asset for the US Navy during World War II, serving in European waters from 1944 to the end of the war. E.E.B. The Pope was named after John Pope, a US naval officer in the early years of the American Civil War, taking part in the blockade of the Gulf Coast and the battle at Heads of Passes on 12 October 1861. 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