Media Category: U.S. Navy
In my life as sailor, the Philippine-Sailor, I saw much of the world, thanks to the U.S. Navy. It was my life and it brought to my last harbor, the Philippine. This is the U.S. Navy category.
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Zo630. Broadside view of USS Teak (AN-35) in San Francisco Bay, 21 February 1944.; Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1224-44; SourceDarryl Baker.
Specifications: Displacement 700 t.(fl) 805 t.(lim); Length 162′ 2″”; Beam 30′ 6″; Draft 11′ 8″ (lim); Speed 12.5 kts. (trial); Complement: Officers 4, Enlisted 44; Armament: one single 3″/50 dual purpose gun mount; two .50 cal machine guns, one y-gun; Largest Boom Capacity 12 t.; Propulsion: one General Motors 6278 Diesel-electric engine; Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear; Ships Service Generators: three Diesel-drive 60Kw 120V D.C.; single propeller, 800shp; Fuel Capacity 620 bbls.
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Zo597. Unloading gold bars from USS Trout at Pearl Harbor, March 1942. USS Trout (SS-202) at Pearl Harbor in early March 1942, unloading gold bars which she had evacuated from Corregidor.
National Archives Photo No. 80-G-45970. Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command.
Regrettable, sadly, most of these Sailors went on their final patrol in 1944!
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Zo596. USS Trout (SS-202) coming alongside USS Detroit (CL-8) at Pearl Harbor in early March 1942, to unload a cargo of gold that she had evacuated from the Philippines. The gold had been loaded aboard Trout at Corregidor on 4 February 1942. Note details of the submarine’s fairwater, and .30 caliber Lewis machine gun mounted aft of the periscope housing.
National Archives Photo No. 80-G-45971. Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command.
National Archives Photo No. NH-50388. Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command.
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Zo598. USS Trout (SS-202) was credited with sinking 23 enemy ships, giving her 87,000 tons sunk, and damaging 6 ships, for 75,000 tons. She received a Presidential Unit Commission for the Gold patrol (her 2nd.) During her first ten patrols she made 32 torpedo attacks, firing 85 torpedoes, including 34 hits, 5 confirmed premature detonations, 5 confirmed duds, and 25 suspected duds. She was also involved in six battle surface actions and was attacked with depth charges eight times. She was reported overdue on 17 April 1944 and presumed lost on her eleventh war patrol, with all 81 hands. LCDR Frank Wesley (Mike) Fenno (pictured) was awarded the DSC for the Gold cruise, and the entire crew were awarded the Silver Star by the Army. Trout was lost on its 7th patrol when under the command of LCDR A. H. Clark. Fenno had transferred to Pampanito. He survived the war and retired as a Rear Admiral.
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Zo595. USS Trout (SS-202) returns to Pearl Harbor on 14 June 1942, after the Battle of Midway. She is carrying two Japanese prisoners of war, Chief Radioman Hatsuichi Yoshida and Fireman 3rd Class Kenichi Ishikawa, survivors of the sunken cruiser Mikumawho had been rescued on 9 June. Among those waiting on the pier are Rear Admiral Robert H. English and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The district ferry Nihoa (YFB-19) is in the left background, just to the right of Trout’s jack. Two .30 caliber Lewis machineguns are mounted on Trout’s sail, flanking the periscope shears.
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Zo587. This is or could be USS Teak AN-35 (Auxiliary Net-laying) at the Great Silver recovery operation in Manila Bay near Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in 1945. Shoveling the money to a heap on deck. That is the southside of Bottomside on Corregidor. This is Life picture from the above Facebook URL.
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Zo586. This is or could be USS Teak AN-35 (Auxiliary Net-laying) at the Great Silver recovery operation in Manila Bay near Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills in 1945. The diver is entering the water with the stage. The diver also decompresses on that stage. He seems to have a metal detecting device in hand. This is Life picture from the above Facebook URL.
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