USS Liscome Bay history ....

Discussion in 'World War 2' started by GearZ, Mar 20, 2015.

  1. GearZ

    GearZ Member

    Can anyone recommend a good history of the aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56)? It was a Casablanca-class escort carrier that was sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1943.

    I had a relative, whom I never met, who went down with the ship when she was sunk. My family still has his metals.

    Thanks much.
     
  2. R Leonard

    R Leonard Active Member

    Noles, James A Jr., Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay.
    See
    http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Three-Minutes-Eternity-Carrier-Liscome/dp/0817356037

    and an article at
    http://www.historynet.com/uss-liscome-bay-hit-by-a-torpedo-near-makin-atoll-during-world-war-ii.htm

    Captain John Crommelin, who survived the Liscome Bay sinking, was always known to me as “Uncle John.” My father worked for him at ComFAirWest in San Diego in 1944. A younger Crommelin (there were 5 in all who graduated from the US Naval Academy), Richard, was an academy classmate (1938) of my father’s and they served together, and shared a cabin, in VF-42 aboard USS Yorktown (CV-5) from June 1941 to the ship’s sinking at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Richard was killed in a mid-air collision near Hokkaido on 15 July 1945 as CO of VF-88. Another brother, Charles, was killed in a mid-air near Okinawa in March 1945.
    See
    http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3427
     
  3. GearZ

    GearZ Member

    Thank you much, R Leonard, for the links. I have added the Amazon link for the next time I make buy there. :)
     
  4. Diptangshu

    Diptangshu Active Member

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