JOHNSON, WARREN EDWIN, Fireman First Class (no. 2018240), USS Langley, US Navy, †01/03/1942
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. and Ellen S. Johnson, 185 Orchard St., Cranston, Providence, RI
Missing, later dd December 15, 1945
Another cenotaph memorializing F1 Johnson
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
On the 27th February 1942, seaplane tender USS Langley, destroyers USS Edsall and USS Whipple were attacked by bombers. Langley was heavily damaged and had to be abandoned. Edsall picked up 177 survivors; Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi's Kido Butai.
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Suggested edit:
The USS Langley was bombed by Japanese aircraft, 27 February 1942, and scuttled by her escorting destroyers, about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java.
16 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Contributor: 47009366
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. and Ellen S. Johnson, 185 Orchard St., Cranston, Providence, RI
Missing, later dd December 15, 1945
Another cenotaph memorializing F1 Johnson
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
On the 27th February 1942, seaplane tender USS Langley, destroyers USS Edsall and USS Whipple were attacked by bombers. Langley was heavily damaged and had to be abandoned. Edsall picked up 177 survivors; Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi's Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu
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Suggested edit:
The USS Langley was bombed by Japanese aircraft, 27 February 1942, and scuttled by her escorting destroyers, about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java.
16 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Contributor: 47009366
JOHNSON, WARREN EDWIN, Fireman First Class (no. 2018240), USS Langley, US Navy, †01/03/1942
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. and Ellen S. Johnson, 185 Orchard St., Cranston, Providence, RI
Missing, later dd December 15, 1945
Another cenotaph memorializing F1 Johnson
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
On the 27th February 1942, seaplane tender USS Langley, destroyers USS Edsall and USS Whipple were attacked by bombers. Langley was heavily damaged and had to be abandoned. Edsall picked up 177 survivors; Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi's Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu
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Suggested edit:
The USS Langley was bombed by Japanese aircraft, 27 February 1942, and scuttled by her escorting destroyers, about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java.
16 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Contributor: 47009366
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. and Ellen S. Johnson, 185 Orchard St., Cranston, Providence, RI
Missing, later dd December 15, 1945
Another cenotaph memorializing F1 Johnson
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
On the 27th February 1942, seaplane tender USS Langley, destroyers USS Edsall and USS Whipple were attacked by bombers. Langley was heavily damaged and had to be abandoned. Edsall picked up 177 survivors; Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi's Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu
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Suggested edit:
The USS Langley was bombed by Japanese aircraft, 27 February 1942, and scuttled by her escorting destroyers, about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java.
16 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Contributor: 47009366
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