Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

On Ships in Final
Stages Of War
/ Nine District Navy men, aboart
the battleship U. S. S. South Dakota
were among the first to enter Tokyo
Bay for the formal capitulation o
Japan. The South Dakota was uset
! by Fleet Admiral Nimitz as his flag
ship for the occasion.
/ Their battleship fired the frs
salvo of the first bombardment o
the japanese homeland when /
blasted the steel center of Hamaish
on July Is, a Navy dispatch re
ported. She also fought at Savo
Saipan, Two Jima and Okinawa.
The Washington men listed aboart
the South Dakota are,
| Michael ]. Driscoll, seaman 1tC
1928 Bryant street NE; Cornelius 7
McNicholas, seaman 1fc. 1913 FRS
street NE; Anthony Bonamo, sea
man 1Ic, 331 Eighth street NE.
Ensign Rodney H. Dobson, West
chester Apartments: Marine Pfc
Kyle Jones, l746 K street NV.
Elton w. diff, seaman lie, l44
Fairmont street NV; John JOSEPH
Ken, storekeeper SC, 1905 Potoma
street NV; Theodore A. Freithg
seaman lie, 800 D street NE. ant
Ebert A. Rumford. seaman l/c, 81
Cromwell terrace NE.
Two District Navy men. Clagget
A. Jones, Watertender &c, Alp
Fourth street NV. and Harry L
Meader, jr., 2008 Monroe street NE
serve aboard the U. S. S. Cowan
esque-the first tanker to suffer nj
from a Jap suicide plane.
Serving on the communication
ship Ancon in Tokyo Bay are Free
Bagwell Smith, radioman 1fc, l
South Lexington street, Arlington
and Nelson P. Guidry, specialist *
! l Eighteen street S. E.
} The troop transport Alpine, dam
. aged twice during six Pacific en-
= gagements, returned to the ightin
feet in time to carry the final as
. sault on Japan to victory. 1t. Spen
: Ger T. Money, 22o6 Hall place NV
. Is one of the crew members.
, william NJ. Flynn, 223 Bryan
street NE, can lay claim to a shar
in one of the outstanding record
: of the war while serving on tn
J. combat transport U. S. S. Golde
e City which took part in six of tn
major Pacific actions without tn
slightest damage to herself or hi
: landing boats. and without a cas-
!: ualty among her crewmen.
Louis ]. Handy, electricians mat
i. 1/c, 2l2 Fifteenth street NE, is
J, member of the U. S. S. Levy dt
!. stroyer escort crew, which part
: cipated in the first uncondition;
l. surrender of Jap held territory
; the United States in the Marsha
:, Islands.
The Levy was the first America
S warship to enter an enemy hel
!: lagoon to pick up the japanese ga
U rison commander to sign the su,
) render terms.
: Frank H. Doyal, machinist's ma
&c, 303812 r street NV, and Leo
5 ard Parcover, ships cook &c, GIL
Il street NE, serve on the flagship
}, Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher, II
: USS Panamint. The flagship rid
). off Oninato naval base in Nut!
Bay.
Six District Navy men SER
aboard the battleship Arkansa
n which has just passed her 33d brit
. day. THE grand old lady of the Sc;
: is the Oldest battleship in the Flee
Il but that didn't keep her from pou
ing hundreds of rounds into grour
J. installations at Two Jima, nor fro
q a front row position in the Okin,
wa operation. Area men servir
: aboard her are:
1t. d. g. George E. Smith,
i Franklin street NE; Joseph
5 Johnson, jr., seaman &c. 829 Quin
street NV; Stanley Schecter, CO.
q swain, 1908 Rock Creek Church ros
s. NV; Ray L. Alton, yeoman &c, 7
{ Sixth street Sc: Edwin F. Thur
: ton, fire controlman sc, 1850
5: street Sc, and John w. Abramso
u boatswain, 3548 Eleventh street ny
e Among the 200 sailors and M
rines who raised the American fl
o on Mile Atoll in the Marshall I
IL lands, the first Japanese terrific
: formally to surrender in this Wa
u was E. T. McMullen, control tow
g. operator sc, 6317 Blair road NV.
>; Aboard the destroyer Thatch
e when she was hit twice by enen
:. suicide planes at Okinawa was
u Comdr. Charles Richard ChandI,
SOL Tilden street NV The fl
Is action occurred on May 20 while t.
le destroyer was assigned to a defer
u. ring of ships in the Okinawa ar,
n The second attack was on July
) while the Thatcher was undergoi
Is emergency repairs for a return
le the United States. Another suici
If plane sneaked through, dived +
g the Thatcher and bounced off t
l. side.
5" 1t. william B. Quinn, 704 Sou
es Lee street, Arlington, and 9th
crew members of the transport M,
n lette, brought a battalion of M
n rines to the beaches of Japan
a seaborne invasion of a natl
OF after its surrender. The transpt
ar was passing Guam at sea when Fl.
OF Admiral Nimitz ordered her to pl
as pare for the operation and sol
I'd 1900 Marines were rushed aboa
IN At the moment news of Japan's {
vt. feat was being broadcasted to /
u people. combat cargo was swung IL
T. the Mellette's holds.
n, The pioneer invasion feet"
So which she sailed had only five N
n, rine-laden attack TRANSPORTS. g
fc. attack cargo ship and three
re- stroyers.
-Four Washington and Virgil