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1937 PICTURE OF THE USCGC TANEY
PLANK OWNERS 1ST CREW OF
USCGC TANEY
Photo provided by Hellen Hartman July 2001 in memory of Warren Haratman

  
Above two photo's provided by Warren Compton 2001

Pre WW2 USCGC TANEY Photo provided by the Coast Guaard
Historian's Office
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/
Coast Guard History, USCGC Taney Pearl Harbor

USCGC TANEY at Baltimore Maritime Museum. October 2000Photo
by Vern Toler

Photo sent by ex Taney man___________via web.


USS TANEY 1943-44 (With four 5"38) picture provided by Coast
Guard Historian's Office

Harry; Nelson, (USS TANEY) and Capt. Koitschka commander
of German Submarine U-616 and wife and son at Honolulu TANEY reunion.
The U-616 engaged the TANEY
20-22 April 1944 in the Mediterranean. The book "The Death of the
U-Boats" list his U-boat distorted 14-17 May 1944 off coast of Oran, North
Africa. The foweling ships were the cause of its sinking, Neilds
DD616 Gleaves DD423 Dllyson DD454 Hilar P. Jones DD427 Macomb DD458 Hambleton
DD455 and the Rodman DD456. one of the above destroyers had located him
and brought him to their reunion in Honolulu. visit:
http://www.armory.com/~vern/personal/theway/ for additional story.
.

Capt. Koitschka (center with white hat) CO U-616 German Sub.
scuttled after surface fight with US Destroyers. 55 members
of the crew were picked up by the US Destroyers. Picture provided by
Klaus
Zaepfel, who's late
father Franz Zaepfel served aboard the sub. aditional
piactures and story under history - the way it was of this webpage.
e-mail received relating to above picture
I ran across your reunion page while doing a search on my
father's commanding officer, Siegfried Koitschka.
My father, Franz
Zaepfel, died 13 years ago, but my mother
has numerous photos of the U-616
and its men. Do you know of anyone from that crew with internet
access who
might be willing to identify some of these men? I can scan the
photos.
Sincerely,
Klaus P. Zaepfel
447 Martha Lee Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
(757)826-9286
kpzaepfel@erols.com
Capt. Koitschka
U-616 http://www.classicwest.com/homesig.html
http://uboat.net/gallery/officers1.htm

This painting of the Taney at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by acclaimed
artist Keith Ferris; shows under Japanese Air
copy from web http://www.mardigrasfun.com/bsp/200th/taney/taney.htm

Photo by Russell Green aboard the CG-manned
USS Menges (DE-320) [see
R. Green, chapter 3 Bells]
Please note: Art Green and Russell Green names mean the same, info
from different sources
Photo copy provided by The Coast Guard Historian's office:
Note the size of the explosian compaired to the two ships in the forground.
The TANEY's Photographer took simular pictures. This picture was published
in Time May 22 1944 and in "The History of the TANEY by the late
LtJG
Whetsitine USCGR.
Caption from TIME
"This is what men risk who go to sea. even in the Allied-controlled
Mediterranean. Off the coast of North Africa a German bomber has bat-winged
in by night, made a direct hit on Allied freighter. Left and right are
the silhouettes of other ships picked out by a pillar of flame. fed by
explosives. which rise hundreds of feet into the sky. "
Caption from History of TANEY
"Destruction of the SS Paul Hamilton 20 April 1944. Photo by
Art
Green, USCG combat Photographer stationed aboard the USS Menges
(DE 320)"
http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/HAMILTON-001.htm
Information below from this link s/vern_toler


This roster was complied by the Casualty Branch, the Adjutant General's
Office, Washington, DC - List No. 62 to document
the "Personnel Lost at Sea as Result of Ship Sinking During World War
II of the Liberty Ship SS Paul Hamilton (Hull No.
0227) off the coast of Algiers, North Africa on 20 Apr 1944
The Liberty Ship SS Paul Hamilton was hit by bombs launched from a German
Junker JU-88 aircraft causing it to explode
with great violance and it sank immediately. This occurred approximately
30 miles off the Coast of Cape Bengut, Algiers, in the
Mediterranean Sea. (1)
The sinking of the SS Paul Hamilton became one of the most costly Liberty
Ship disaster, in terms of human life, in all of
World War II. The ship was making her fifth voyage, as part of a huge
Convoy UGS-38, when she was attacked by 23
German JU-88 dive-bombers near sunset on 20 April 1944.
In addition to her load of U.S. Army Air Corps personnel, she carried
a cargo of high explosives and bombs. The German
JU-88s dive-bombers came in low and the men on the bridge of the British
tanker, Athelchie, watched as it went by. The
gunners aboard the Athelchie set the JU-88 on fire, but the aircraft
had launched its torpedo less than 150 feet from the SS
Paul Hamilton. Immediately after the torpedo hit the Hamilton, a violent
explosion threw debris and dense black smoke high in
the air. When the smoke cleared, there was no sign of the ship.
During this action with the enemy, other ships in the convey were hit
or sunk.
The following ships of Convoy UGS-38 were hit:
SS Samite
SS Stephen T. Austin
The following ships of Convoy UGS-38 were sunk:
SS Paul Hamilton, loss of 580 personnel
SS Royal Star,
USS Lansdale (DD-426) - loss of 47 crew members

http://howardsviews.com/howardsviews2.html
touching story and pictures
http://www.armed-guard.com/03peo.html
pictures of "armed Guard"
http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/m/ed_marshallW.htm
detected to one member of the "Photo squadron"
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/MM/SS_PaulHamilton.html
data on the SS Paul Hamilton (You will get the Navy Ships index
page, click on the icon <MM>)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~coyuma/data/gsvets/DurfeyLE.htm
another member of the photo squadron
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.cavey/41
a man on the SS Paul Hamilton
http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/HAMILTON-001.htm
SS Paul
Hamilton story
(you
will get yahoo- in the search box type Hamilton-001, click on search then
click on SS Paul Hamilton)


photo by Vern Toler: Sick Bay USCGC TANEY I think this is the
patient we took from the SS Paul Hamilton for an appendectomy
operation. We returned him to his ship a couple days before it was
hit ote several days earlier Dr Dowdy brought an man from the ship
to the TANEY to perform an appendectomy, after he recovered the man was
returned to the Hamilton. The ship had a large contingent of Army
Airmen. 547 men were lost with this ship.Photo by Vern Toler: Sick
Bay USCGC TANEY I think this is the patient we took from the SS Hamilton
for an appendicidice operation. We returned him to his ship a couple
days before it was hit..

USS. MENGES (DE-320)
View Looking aft from the foremast, showint the ship's wrecked after sectin.
She was struck by an acoustic homing torpedo from the German Submarine
U-371 while operating in the Western Mediterranean, 3 May 1944. Taken
by Coast Guard Photographer Green, while she was under tow, en route to
be repaired. The Menges had a Coasst Guard Crew.
Original Print has Photo # USCG 4622. from the U.S. NAVAL
HISTORICAL CENTER.
Photo by Russell Green aboard the CG-manned
USS Menges (DE-320) [see
R. Green, chapter 3 Bells] photo copy by vern from web
190. 
"A Coast Guard seaman died at his battle station aboard the USS
MENGES, torpedoed by a nazi sub in the
Mediterranean. He represents the old Coast Guard expression, `You have
to go out, but you don't have to come back.'"
PhoM1c. Arthur Green. 26-G-2330. (ww2190.jpg)
(Note from Vern_Toler, webmaster,June 2001. This photo appeared
in U.S. CAMERA, 1945? as an major war photo, along with other
publications of the time, it is also located in several areas of the web.)
http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/ww2190.jpg
WWII Ofical
Photos (First Goverment Website)
http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/ww2photo.html
uss
menges
Date: Thu, 3 May
2001 23:39:01 -0400
my dad was aboard the menges at the time of the torpedoes. he
always told me it was the stern that was
struck. the menges was taken to new york navy ship and repaired. the
uss holder's stern was cut off and
placed on the menges.if this is any help let me know, i have an article
from "all hands"
dan fralin
<boomer12@nc.rr.com>
(thanks s/vern_toler)
Photo by Russell Green aboard the CG-manned
USS Menges (DE-320) [see
R. Green, chapter 3 Bells] photo copy by vern from web
:
"ed and rae nash" <ramblersoup@bigvalley.net>
story about USS-CG MENGES and other war stories. see "4 Bells"
TITLE: "THE COURT-MARTIAL OF ENSIGN MASON".
" LOVE, SHAME and GLORY"
"BINGO! BINGO! BINGO!"
Author: Edgar M. Nash Phone 1-877-823-9235
ISBN: 0-7596-8235-6, 5 X 8 PAPERBACK, 254 PAGES
(a fiction based on the Menges)
This picture appeared in U.S. CAMERA 1945 With the caption
"BATTLE STATIONS -- U.S. COAST GUARD."
The TANEY photographer brought back copies of this picture from the
USS
Menges (DE 320) a Coast Guard manned Destroyer Escort.
The MENGES lost its bow to a torpedo on 3 May 1944
Dr. Dowdy and several TANEY crewmen went aboard the MENGES to assist.
The MENGES lost 26 Coast Guardsmen KIA along with 16 wounded. The
MENGES repaired with the bow from another damaged DE and it lived to fight
again.
Subject: 1944

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:32:58 -0800
From:
Gene <genol@coho.net>
I see by the Taney site I committed a huge error about
UGS-38 details: It
was DE-320 Menges which lost its stern to a homing torpedo from U-371
and
was repaired by getting the stern of DE-401 Holder which had lost its
bow to
a mine. So Menges became a whole ship again with its own undamaged
bow and
DE Holder's undamaged stern. Sorry for the mix up. Mosely
DE-321 had
assisted both Lansdale and Menges between UGS-38 and GUS-38 from 20
April to
3 May and I had confused their roles. Following are the sites
explaining
the three DEs activity if you would like to have the straight stuff.
I hope
you were able to get everything done on your list of things to do.
gene l
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/escorts/de321.txt
History web page
USS MENGES
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/summer99/who_runs_georgia.htmlhttp://uboat.net/fates/losses/1944.htm
http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-371Menges.htm
http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-371.htm
http://uboat.net/fates/losses/1944.htm

www.ussbuck.com
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0542002.jpg
(picture)
The USS BUCK DD-420 is added
to the TANEY website, as it also was in combat with the U-616.
The story was written by Kay Klein Brigham, daughter of
Lt. Comdr. M.J. Klein, USN, skipper of USS Buck (DD-420)
The story covers the USS BUCK action report of the sinking of
the Italian submarine
ARGENTO by the USS BUCK and the rescue of the Italian
submarine crew by the
USS BUCK. It is also a story of the hardships endured by the survivors
of the USS BUCK when it was sunk by the U-616.
“150 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.”

Related story in TIME May 22, 1944
"BATTLE OF THE SEAS USS Lansdale End".
"At dusk the German Torpedo planes came in. skimming the gray becalmed
Mediterranean. One Torpedo went by. Another hit the U.S.S. Landsdale square
amidships, nearly split her in two. The destroyer began to sink.
When orders came to abandon ship, few were prompt to obey, 'Yes Sir.'
mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an
antiaircraft gun: they kept on firing. A 19-year-old steward's mate
with
a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two
plans had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into
the oily sea.
There was little confusion, but some men jumping from the ship had
landed on his head, he threw his helmet off, swam about bareheaded.
Most of the 200-man crew were saved - including the skipper, 33 year
-old Lieut. Commander Douglas M. Swift and
his 'exec' Lieut.
Robert M. Morgenthau 24 year-old
son of the Secretary of the Treasure. Among the missing: Lieut. George
E. Haines, 24, who swam about with a life preserver, helping
the injured. When rescue came. he was gone."
The USS LANDSDALE sank with the loss of 49 men.
(Note from Vern_Toler, June 2001 The above article was in Time
Magazine in 1944 along with the picture of the explosion of
the SS Paul Hamilton. The story in it about the two Black Stuarts
is interesting, there action would rate a high medal yet there names were
not even listed, does anyone out there have a follow up to this? )
http://www.plateau.net/usndd/de322/de322his.htm
USS NEWELL DE 322 This ship along with the Coast Guard
manned USS MENGES DE 320 rescued the men from the USS LANSDALE and
two German Pilots
From: "Charles
C. Wales" <cwales@bcn.net>
Charles C. Wales, Ensign, USN, Torpedo Officer, USS Lansdale DD426

USS NEWELL DE 322 copied
from the web
http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/322.htm
more stories andpictures of USS NEWELL

USS LANSDALE
DD426 copied from the web
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd426.html

USS
LANING APD-55
Photo
provided by Gene Lovegren
Charles Lawrence class High-Speed Transport:
Displacement: 1,450 tons (full load)
Length: 306'
Beam: 37'
Draft: 12'
Speed: 22.5 knots (max), 12 knots (econ)
Armament: 1 5"/38 DP, 3x2 40mm, 6 20mm,
2 depth charge tracks
Complement: 374
Turbo-electric drive, twin screws, 12,000
shaft hp
Built at Norfolk Navy Yard, and commissioned
1 August 1943
The USS LANING was with the TANEY for convoy UGS-38 and GUS-38
as a forward screen. During
the action pictured above.on 20 April 1944 when the Luftwaffe came
calling, Gene Lovegren USN was manning
the surface radar and reimburse well seeing the SS Hamilton explode
on his screen.
Old Friends & Fellow Veterans --
The USS Laning DE-159/APD-55/LPR-55 internet site under construction
for
some time is now a fledgling reality. From this point it will
grow. It
eventually will tell of its history as a convoy escort to the Mediterranean
including the eventful UGS-38 & GUS-38 convoys, centered on two
great losses
in 1944, and the escort's part in it. It will be under construction
for as
long as there is a historical legacy to reveal. Have a look at
this modest
beginning but don't stray too far. Updates will occur regularly.
http://members.dsl-only.net/~usslaning/indexB.html
H. Eugene [Gene] Lovegren USN 1/'42 to 1/46.
Radarman 3/c at separation
Web author [with the aid of son Richard J. Lovegren]
You can reach me at usslaning@dsl-only.net

USS MOSLEY (DE-321)
Photographed in 1944-45
Courtesy of D. McPherson, 1974
US NAVAL HISTORICAL CRENTER PHOTOGRAPH
Glene Lovegreen recalls "Destroyer Lansdale being sunk with DE-321
Mosley assisting and later losing her stern to an acoustic torpedo during
the return trip, GUS-38, when sister ship Fechteler DE-157 was sunk by
U-967 on 5 May 1944."
Ship was with the TANEY convoy USG-38 and GUS-38

USS NIELDS DD 616
CLASS - BENSON As Built.
Displacement 2395 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 348' 4"(oa) x 36' 1" x 13' 2"
(Max)
Armament 4 x 5"/38AA, 6 x 0.5" MG, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 50,000 SHP; Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 12 Knots, Crew 208.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, Quincy.June 15 1942.
Launched October 1 1942 and commissioned January 15 1943.
Decommissioned March 26 1946.
Stricken September 15 1970.
Fate Sold May 8 1972 and broken up for scrap.
Ship action was part of the TANEY convoy
USG-38
and GUS-38 USS NIELDS helped distroy the U-616
Picture and information taken
from Web
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/616.htm
Assigned to coastal escort and patrol duties on her arrival at Oran,
2 May, Nields was soon drawn into a submarine chase
lasting four days. On 14 May, U-616 was detected in the southwestern
Mediterranean by British observation aircraft. Nields,
temporarily with DesDiv 21, was one of the ships to answer the call.
Soon afterward Ellyson (DD-454) dropped the first
depth charge pattern. On the morning of the 15th, oil slicks were
spotted, but sound contact was lost. Another search plane
sighted the submarine, now surfaced, ten miles away and running
north toward southern France. The destroyers followed. At
1900 on the 16th, Nields, in a scouting line with Gleaves
(DD-423) and Macomb (DD-458), left the formation to investigate
a sound contact; negative. At 2157, all three destroyers
made contact. Macomb illuminated the elusive quarry and opened
fire. U-616 returned the fire and started diving. At
2214, and again at 2231, Macomb attacked with depth charges. At 2335
and at 2342 sound contacts were regained, but lost at
800 yards. U-616 was deep and maneuvering radically. At 2346,
Nields set off
an 11 charge pattern; and at 2350 began "creeping attacks".
At 0043, 17 May, Gleaves, with Nields directing, fired an 18
charge pattern, with deep settings, which surrounded the U-boat.
Contact was lost at 0044. Soon after 0100, the three
destroyers, having been joined by Hambleton (DD-455), Ellyson,
Rodman (DD-456) and Emmons (DD-457),
commenced a box patrol, with Nields taking position third from the
right end of the scouting line. At 0449, Hambleton
reported a sound contact, and, at 0515 commenced firing depth charges.
At 0525, she made a second attack. Finally, at
0608, U-616 surfaced and was taken under fire by the surrounding
destroyers. Nields, unable to fire without endangering
others in the destroyer group, watched the hunted U-boat sink at
0612 and then screened the vessels detailed to pick up
survivors (51).
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Base/1250/nields.html
additional information - German Submarines
http://uboat.net/boats/u616.htm

http://www.geocities.com/bensonclass/macu616.html
http://www.geocities.com/bensonclass/macombaction.html
Actions of the
USS MACOMB
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/458.htm
Above Photo Navy Archives Web Page



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