JOHNSON, CARL ANDREW, Lieutenant Junior Grade (no. O-177056), USS McCawley, US Navy, †30/06/1943
Wife, Mrs. Thelma Lee Johnson, 952 N. Alfred, Hollywood, Calif.
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SINKING OF USS MCCAWLEY (APA-4)
USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4) was a McCawley-class transport for the United States Navy which served in World War II. The Navy designated McCawley as AP-10, a transport. Later in 1942, the Navy sent McCawley to join the Pacific Fleet, where the ship would be redesignated APA-4 and reclassifed as an Attack Transport.
McCawley would come under fire and be struck by a torpedo (killing 15 in the engine room) from a Japanese plane on 30 June 1943 in Blanche Channel. However the critical blow to the ship came a few hours later, when a group of US PT boats mistook the McCawley for an enemy ship, and torpedoed her. Fortunately, all were already rescued from the ship. www.wrecksite.eu
Wife, Mrs. Thelma Lee Johnson, 952 N. Alfred, Hollywood, Calif.
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SINKING OF USS MCCAWLEY (APA-4)
USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4) was a McCawley-class transport for the United States Navy which served in World War II. The Navy designated McCawley as AP-10, a transport. Later in 1942, the Navy sent McCawley to join the Pacific Fleet, where the ship would be redesignated APA-4 and reclassifed as an Attack Transport.
McCawley would come under fire and be struck by a torpedo (killing 15 in the engine room) from a Japanese plane on 30 June 1943 in Blanche Channel. However the critical blow to the ship came a few hours later, when a group of US PT boats mistook the McCawley for an enemy ship, and torpedoed her. Fortunately, all were already rescued from the ship. www.wrecksite.eu
JOHNSON, CARL ANDREW, Lieutenant Junior Grade (no. O-177056), USS McCawley, US Navy, †30/06/1943
Wife, Mrs. Thelma Lee Johnson, 952 N. Alfred, Hollywood, Calif.
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SINKING OF USS MCCAWLEY (APA-4)
USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4) was a McCawley-class transport for the United States Navy which served in World War II. The Navy designated McCawley as AP-10, a transport. Later in 1942, the Navy sent McCawley to join the Pacific Fleet, where the ship would be redesignated APA-4 and reclassifed as an Attack Transport.
McCawley would come under fire and be struck by a torpedo (killing 15 in the engine room) from a Japanese plane on 30 June 1943 in Blanche Channel. However the critical blow to the ship came a few hours later, when a group of US PT boats mistook the McCawley for an enemy ship, and torpedoed her. Fortunately, all were already rescued from the ship. www.wrecksite.eu
Wife, Mrs. Thelma Lee Johnson, 952 N. Alfred, Hollywood, Calif.
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SINKING OF USS MCCAWLEY (APA-4)
USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4) was a McCawley-class transport for the United States Navy which served in World War II. The Navy designated McCawley as AP-10, a transport. Later in 1942, the Navy sent McCawley to join the Pacific Fleet, where the ship would be redesignated APA-4 and reclassifed as an Attack Transport.
McCawley would come under fire and be struck by a torpedo (killing 15 in the engine room) from a Japanese plane on 30 June 1943 in Blanche Channel. However the critical blow to the ship came a few hours later, when a group of US PT boats mistook the McCawley for an enemy ship, and torpedoed her. Fortunately, all were already rescued from the ship. www.wrecksite.eu
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