Posted on 03/09/2004 5:43:14 AM PST by Happy2BMe
USS Pompano, 1330-ton Perch class submarine built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, was commissioned in June 1937. She operated in the eastern Pacific for the rest of the decade and for the first two years of the 1940s. Pompano arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, soon after the beginning of the Pacific War, and began her first war patrol in mid-month. Surviving attacks by "friendly" planes a few days after leaving Pearl Harbor, she inspected Wake Island on New Year's Day 1942. The submarine then proceeded to the Marshall Islands, where she attacked a large ship on 13 January, but apparently did not sink it. In April-June 1942 Pompano conducted her second patrol, into the East China Sea, sinking a small tanker, a large transport and some smaller craft. Her next patrol, in July-September, took her into the waters off Japan where she survived a serious depth-charging and sank two enemy ships.
After a Mare Island overhaul Pompano operated in the Marshall Islands area in January and February 1943, off Japan in March-May and again in June-July, sank no ships and experienced some of the frustrating torpedo problems that plagued the Navy during the war's first half. Her seventh war patrol, also in Japanese waters, began in August. Pompano sank two freighters but then disappeared, with the loss of her entire crew. Though the evidence is circumstantial, she was probably sunk by a mine sometime in September 1943.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Pompano (SS-181).
| Photo #: 80-G-456127 USS Pompano (SS-181) In San Francisco Bay, California, 1938. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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| Photo #: 19-N-38960 USS Pompano (SS-181) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 19 December 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. /B> |
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| Photo #: 19-N-38961 USS Pompano (SS-181) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 19 December 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. |
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| Photo #: 19-N-38965 USS Pompano (SS-181) Plan view, forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 December 1942. Circles on the photo mark recent alterations to the ship. Note periscope, radar antenna, 20mm machine gun mountings and other details. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. |
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| Photo #: 80-G-21785 Lieutenant Commander Willis M. Thomas, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Pompano (SS-181) Receives the Navy Cross from Rear Admiral Wilhelm L. Friedell, in ceremonies at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 7 December 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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| Photo #: 19-N-18021 USS Henley (DD-391), at right, and USS Pompano (SS-181), at left Under construction at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 April 1936. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. |
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| Photo #: NH 44005 USS Pompano (SS-181) Afloat immediately after her launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 March 1937. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. |
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Did you see the original date on it bitt?
bitt should see/hear Version 2.0
And the Pompano page too
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OK it's late:
"COMING IN ON TWO WINGS FOR A BEER"
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Thanks. I lost my Uncle on that boat. BTTT.
"Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer"
"Over There" - can't recall many words to it.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the ping!
Why, thank you very much...
from one chick to another. ;o)
Good to see you all.
Wow what a meaningful thread! thank you Happy & thanks for the heads up on this Devolve. I posted a couple thread that I had to "HOST" 911 weekend & I was gone most of the weekend so am now just getting caught up on pings.
Strange, I thought I sent it at 2:25pm and saw you had posted at 1:25pm here! Whatever - you got it posted, lol.
 On this day and date, 1945. while sailing on the huge Pacific ocean doing aircraft carrier guard duty aboard a Destroyer "USS Niblack DD-424" 200 hundred miles off the coast of Japan, it was announced over the pa system that the US had dropped a huge explosive device, an "atomic bomb" on the empire of Japan. No one on our ship had any idea what kind of bomb this was. In a few days, we were aware that this was the beginning of the end of a long war. , things changed immediately in our operation schedule, our shipboard watches were changed from 4 hours on and 4 hours off, This meant being able for me an others to get 8 hours sleep or rest for the first time in two years. Also we could show lights after dark and our priorities in all sectors changed. Am I sorry we used this bomb to stop this war. not in the least, It probable saved hundred of thousands of American lives and many others. This was the beginning of the end of the war and we knew we would be soon heading home which I had left as a 16 year old nearly 3 years before. I shall always remember this day, 66 years ago like it was yesterday, and now back home and 84 years old, I thank God for my life and for giving me the opportunity to raise my family and live in peace.
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Wow! An OLD thread from 2004 by Happy !! :)
I am on FACEBOOK so much, I was lookin’ for the “LIKE” button on your post there! LOL!
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Anyway, here I am for anyone wanting to join me there:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1794667501
To #19
LOLOLOL
sneeekieee
Hey Meek, I have a funny story. I joined Facebook because of my daughters but I never go there. Actually forget about it.
After you posted this comment and your Facebook link I had a funny thing happen. I got an email that I had a letter on Facebook from a “ James Hodwell “, sent 6;30am Monday Aug 8th [day before my birthday]- so I looked at it;
http://domania.us/Oaccess/POTLATCH/JamesHodwell-Facebook-Aug-8-11.jpg
I seem to be the only friend that James ever wanted!!
http://domania.us/Oaccess/POTLATCH/JamesHodwell.jpg
Strange, isn’t it?
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