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.
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
Thank you much, R Leonard, for the links. I have added the Amazon link for the next time I make buy there.
" .... A million men cannot take Tarawa in a hundred years .... " - Adm Keiji Shibasaki, commander of the defending force of Tarawa. So the effort reflects in the mind of Comm Sunao Tabata of I 175, too! Project Muse : The University of Alabama Press - http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817382148 CVE 56 : Another report http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/history-up-close/sinking-uss-liscome-bay/
