Evening star., 1945-07-22
D. {. Men Take War
To Japanese Shores;
News OF Warships


aboard the destroyer William D
Porter when she was sunk off Oki-
nawa as the result of a Jap suicide
plane. 1t was one of the few Amer
ican ships to sink in this war with
out loss of life, the Navy reported.
The Jap plane did not hit the
Porter but landed in the water on
the port side. 1t exploded almost
directly beneath the vessel.
Electricians Mate Selby and the
other crewmen labored for three
hours amid fires and escaping
steam to patch up the damage, but
the Porter continued to ship water
and the order to abandon ship was
given. Seven minutes after the
captain stepped aboard a waiting
small craft, the ship heeled to
starboard and sank, stern first
Sixty-one men were injured, ac-
corning 10 JIle navy.
Lit. G.g) Macauley Howard, 81, is
co-ordinator of combat information
in one of the Pacific Fleets new de-
stroyers, dispatch from that area
revealed. The son of Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Herbert S. Howard, 1907
Thirty-sixth place NV, the Navy
lieutenant has fought the Japs off
LuZon, FormoSa, French Indo-
China, Tokyo Bay, Two Jima and
Okinawa.
A Washington man fought aboard
the destroyer U. S. S. Kidd in the
Pacific as she destroyed eight Jap
planes and rescued As downed
American airmen. He is Russell L.
Keith, shipftter 1/c, whose wife re-
sides at Ninth street and Independ-
ence avenue S.W. The Kidd was at
Rabaul, Wolfe Atolls, Hollandia,
Saipan, Tinian, Pagan, Rota, Guam,
Leyte Gulf, Shikoku and Kyushu
Islands and Okinawa.
Charles Lewis Karmel, Seaman
1Jc, 4442 Kansas avenue NV,
helped the destroyer U. S. S. Hugh
w. Hadley knock out % attacking
Jap planes in los minutes when in
The company of a smaller destroyer
on patrol of Okinawa. She was
attacked by $50 Jap flyers. Her
feat set an all-time Navy record, ac-
cording to a dispatch.
Thirteen District Navy men aboard
the battleship U. S. S. New York
came through the Okinawa cam
paign without scratch, although
they helped fire more than 100000
pounds of shells at enemy targets.
She was the only capital ship to
stay on the job without relief, and
kept her 14-inch and 5-inch guns
firing salvos at island targets
steadily.
The men included: Grant w.
Higbie, Seaman &c, 4308 Thirteenth
street NE; Gerald N. McCune,
Radarman &c, 434 Mellon street
Sc; r. B. Mclaughlin, Seaman &c,
1471 Irving street NV; Harold e.
Pringle, Aviation Metalsmith 1ic,
los Fifth street NE. c. Nv. Drechs-
Ter, Musician &c, 1922 Bay street
Sc.
1t. q. g) James Lowry, 1929 Park
side drive NV; Joel r. Liebling,
Chief Yeoman, 1869 Rittenhouse
street NV; Dion S. Birney, jr., Sea-
man 1/c, ABS Cathedral avenue
NV; Coleman F. Boswell and Rob-
ert E. Boswell, both Seamen II, 1925
Twenty second street NE; William
S. Brooks, Seaman 2jc, 128 C street
NE; Charles L. Campbell, Stew
ards Mate &c, 112 F street S.W.,
and George Cuyler, Stewards mate
&c, 1926 South Capitol street.
Marine 1t. william X. Byrd, son
Of H. c. Curly" Byrd, president Of
the University of Maryland, Is serv-
ing with the Regimental Weapons
Co., Marine Sd Division in the Pa
cific, dispatch from there dis
closed. The 22-year-old Marine
lives at 1900 Beechwood road, Col
iege Park, Md.
Aboard the U. S. S. Yukon, a sup
ply ship, John Atley Mccormick,
radioman &c, 221 F street NV, and
James Robert Pennifield, coxswain
1906 Foxhall road NV, are helping
solve the food problem for scattered
naval units.
The Yukon was the first Navy
ship, with the exception of small
Coast Guard ice patrol vessels, to
enter the blocked Greenland
fiords of Angmagssalik, IkerraSak
and Ikateq. She also travelled from
the blue cold North through the
Panama Canal to outlying, almost
isolated bases in the Pacific and
established a record for a ship of
her type, according to the Navy.
BERTHE Vernon Baker, fireman 2/c,
IL Belleview avenue, Fairhaven,
Alexandria, has helped the Navy
transport U. S. S. John Land pile
up a record during her first year in
the Pacific. She carried nearly
10000 Marines and soldiers into ac-
ton in invasions from Saipan to
Two Jima.
Ten area men went to the shores
Of Japan aboard the U. S. S. Quincy
recently and helped a mighty naval
task force hurl dynamite into the
japanese homeland.
In a force of Sd Fleet warships,
the Quincy turned her guns on the
Honshu steel city of Kamaishi, 275
miles north of Tokyo. The men
aboard her included:
1t. Samuel w. w. Shore, 3206
Ravenworth place, Alexandria; 1t.
EIdridge A. Snight, Presidential
Gardens, Alexandria; 1t. Bernard
nj. Fagelson, 1921 Powhatan street,
Alexandria; 1t. q. 81 w. e. Jessup,
;r., 418 Tylor place, Alexandria.
1t. d. g.) David A. E. Wood, 1929
Drummond avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md; Marine Corpl. Carl A. Zab-
IOcky, 1476 Newton street NV;
Joseph III. Lewis, electricians mate
2fc, 1920 Macarthur boulevard, Md;
George W. Bowman, electricians
mate SIC, 1880 Thirtieth street NV;
James III. TrammeIl, electricians
mate &c, 14l4 K street Sc, and
Robert l.. Wilson, seaman 1fc. 10lO
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
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