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| USS MONAGHAN II DD 354 Ens. John R. Monaghan, born 26 March in Chewalah, Washington.,graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1895. After service on the USS Monadnoch and Alert,he was killed in action with natives in Samoa, standing steadfastly by his wounded superior,Lieutenant Lonsdale,against a score of attackers,1 April 1899.His exceptional service has been rewarded by having two fine battle ready ships named after him. The second Monahgan (DD354) was laid down 21 November,1933 by Boston Navy Yard; launched 9 January1935; sponsored by Miss Mary F. Monaghan,niece of Ensign Monaghan;Commissioned 19 April 1935,Cmdr. R.R. Thompson in command. During the next few years Monaghan operated primarily in the North Atlantic,training officers and men of the Navy who served the Nation so well in World War II. On 7 December 1941,Monaghan was ready duty destroyer in Pearl Harbor,and at 0751 was ordered to join Ward,who had just sunk an unidentified submarine off the entrance to Pearl Harbor. Four minutes later,before Monaghan could get underway,the Japanese air attack began. Monaghan opened fire,and at 0827 was underway to join Ward when notified of the presence of a midget submarine in the harbor. Monaghan headed for the trespasser,rammed it glancingly,then sank it with two well placed depth charges set for shallow depth. She headed out of the harbor to patrol offshore for the next week,then joined the aircraft carrier Lexington in the attempt to relieve doomed Wake Island,captured by the Japanese before Lexington's force could bring aid..Homeward bound,Monaghan,with Dale and Aylwin,made repeated attacks on an enemy submarine,causing it to broach and give off a large oil slick. Patrol and scouting operations out of Pearl Harbor with the Lexington (CV-2) group were followed by convoy duty to the west coast and back before TF 11,with Monaghan screening Lexington,sortied from Pearl Harbor 15 April,1942, First action came bound for the South Pacific. With the Japanese threatening Port Moresby,New Guinea,sea lines of communication to Australia and New Zealand were in peril,and the Navy moved quickly and decisively to block so critical a threat. First action came 4 May when Yorktown (CV-5) planes hit Japanese invasion shipping at Tulagi and Gavutu. The two carrier forces now combined upon word that an enemy carrier group had entered the Coral Sea. The opening action of the victory there came 7 May,when American search planes spotted the Japanese occupation force,several transports guarded by Japanese light carrier Shoho. Lexington and Yorktown planes sank Shoho. Next day,before the major engagement by aircraft from both American and Japanese heavy carriers,Monaghan was ordered away from the formation to transmit important messages,preserving radio silence in the main body. She was ordered on to search for survivors of Neosho (AO-23) and Sims (DD-409),sunk on the 7th by the Japanese. Since the position of the sinking had been erroneously reported, Monaghan was unable to carry out a rescue,and sailed with messages for Noumea before rejoining TF 16 in time to return to Pearl Harbor 26 May.Two days later she was underway for perhaps the most decisive battle of the war, the Battle of Midway. The Japanese sailed for the capture of Midway with a brilliant plan,but U.S. Navy intelligence revealed the plan to Admiral Nimitz who thus knew when and where to find the main body of attackers. Admiral Spruance was in the south pacific on the Yorktown which had suffered severe battle damage, Admiral Nimitz advised him to proceed into Japanese held territory until he was sure he had been sighted by the Japanese and then to return to Pearl Harbor at his best speed for emergency repairs to the Yorktown .Upon his arrival at Pearl Harbor he was advised he was to command Nimitz carrier task force to combat the Japanese carrier force proceeding to attack Midway . Although outnumbered the Americans fought with skill and gallantry as expected,sinking four of five enemy carriers in air actions beginning on the night of 3 June,along with a heavy cruiser. Through the first 2 days Monaghan screened Enterprise (CV-6),then late on the morning of 5 June was ordered out to rescue men of a downed seaplane. At 1830 she returned to the side of Yorktown which had been badly damaged by a Japanese air strike,joining the group of destroyers struggling to save the carrier and guard her from further damage.A Japanese submarine penetrated next day and sank both the Yorktown and Hammann (DD412), the carrier remaining afloat another 16 hours before she succumbed. Monaghan, Gwin,(DD-433),and Hughes (DD-410) attacked and badly damaged the submarine. After the great victory,the force returned to Pearl Harbor 13 June. Monaghan was sent north to aid in countering the Japanese threat in the Aluetians. Damaged by collision in the heavy northern fog. Monaghan repaired at Dutch Harbor and Pearl Harbor,then escorted a convoy to the west coast en route to a Mare Island repair period. Monaghan returned to the South Pacific at Nandi,Fiji,17 November. In the harbor of Noumea she bent her propellors on an underwater obstruction,and had to return to Pearl Harbor on her port screw, hastily replaced,for permanent repairs,completed 21 February 1943 . Once more in the Aluetians, Monaghan joined TG 16.6,a scouting force built around cruisers Richmond (CL-9) and Salt Lake City (CA-25). On 26 March this group engaged the Japanese in the Battle of the Kamandorski Islands. Although outnumbered,the Americans fired guns and torpedoes so effectively that the Japanese were driven away.(The destroyers Commodore was advised that his destroyers were out of torpedoes and he replied "continue the attack,we know we are out of torpedoes but they don't",he literally scared the Japanese force away. Patrol and occasional shore bombardment missions throughout the Aleutians,along with escort missions, continued through the summer. Highlights were a radar-directed surface engagement with an unidentified target 20 June,and a chase of a Japanese submarine 2 days later that resulted with the submarine being driven up on rocks and abandoned. She was later identified as I-7,engaged in evacuating troops from Kiska. After escort duty to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco, Monaghan sailed to San Pedro,Calif., to escort three new escort carriers to the Gilbert Islands operations, for which they sailed from Espiritu Santo 13 November. The escort carriers flew their planes against shore targets and protected convoys offshore throughout the invasion of Tarawa Returning to the west coast on escort duty, Monaghan rejoined the escort carriers after extensive exercises out of San Diego, and prepared for the invasion of the Marshals,during which she guarded the carriers northwest of Roi as they flew air support and strikes for the landings there. On 7 February 1944 she entered Majuro,then escorted Pennsylvania (BB-38) to Kwajalein,where she joined the transport screen for the capture of Enewitok. On the night of 21-22 February,she joined in an all-night bombardment on Parry Island, then spent a month on patrol and escort duty in the Marshals. On 22 March she put to sea in an antisubmarine screen for the fast carriers,bound for strikes on Palau, Wotje and Yap, returning to Majuro 6 April. The next sortie, 13 April to 4 May,was to cover the Hollandia landings,and a strike at Satawan,Truk,and Ponape. After preparing at Majuro, the force now sailed for the invasion of Saipan, against which the first strikes were flown 11 June. While the fliers of TF 58 soundly defeated the Japanese in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Monaghans group patrolled off Saipan guarding against a possible breakthrough by the enemy. They next steamed to Eniwetok to prepare for the assault on Guam, for which they sailed 14 July. Monaghan again in the antisubmarine screen protecting the carriers. Assigned to cover the work of underwater demolition teams off Agat on the night of 17-18 July. Monaghan furnished harassing fire until daylight, firing again on the island during the early morning of 19 June. She continued bombardment and screening missions until 25 July when she sailed for Pearl Harbor,and an overhaul at Puget Sound. After training off California and Hawaii, Monaghan sailed for Ulithi 11 November. There she joined the escort for three fleet oilers bound for a rendezvous 17 December with TF 38, whose planes had been striking central Luzon in support of the Mindoro invasion. The fueling day,18 December 1944 was the day during Typhoon Cobra that claimed 756 lives in the Third Fleet, and sank Spence (DD-512), Hull (DD-350),and Monaghan. The six survivors,rescued by Brown (DD-546) after drifting on a raft for 3 days,reported that Monaghan took roll after roll to starboard,finally going over. The tragedy, Admiral Nimitz said,"represented a more crippling blow to the Third Fleet than it might be expected to suffer in anything less than a major action." Veteran of so many actions against a human enemy, Monaghan fell victim to the sailor's oldest enemy, the perils of the sea. The brave crew members of the fighting destroyer USS Monaghan (DD-354) lie in a lonely unmarked grave at the bottom of the Philippine Sea in some of the deepest water in the world.The web site TyphoonCobra1944.net has been constructed to support funding of a fine memorial at Admiral Nimitz Foundation,Fredericksburgh Texas honoring Spence (DD512), Monaghan (DD-354),and Hull (DD-350) and the ships that rescued survivors. |
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Sponsors:Yehezkel & Stella Neches,friends. 230- WHITE,CLIFTON J.,COX,VANDERVOOT,AR 231- WILLENBORG,ERVIN E.,S1C,WEST,TX 232-WILLHITE L W.,PHM3C,HAMMOND,IN 233- WILLIS,EDWARD (N).,STMIC,TRENTON,NJ Sponsors:Wade Meadows,C.Kurfehs,friends Sponsors:Wade Meadows,C. Kurfehs,friends. 234- WILSON,WILLIE.,ST3C,ORANGE,TX 235- WITCHER,LEROY(N).,RDM3C,ROCKY,OK Sponsors:Wade Meadows,C. Kurfehs,friends Sponsors:Wade Meadows,C. Kurfehs,friends 236- WORKING,JAMES W.,RT3C,EUGENE,OR 237- WRIGHT, EVERT (N).,CQM,ORANGEFIELD,TX 238- WRIGHT, PAUL (N).,WT1C,SAN DIEGO,CA 239- WRIGHT, RALPH J.,RM2C,HAMMOND,MO 239- GUIO,JOSEPH, JR,GM3C. Sponsor:Robert Drury & Tom Clavin,Friends. CHANGE OF STATUS APROVED BY LT. W. H. WRIGHT. DATE OF EVIDENCE OF DEATH RECEIVED 20 FEB. 1945 CODE:0652 T0 6452 NOK NOTIFIED BY CASFORMTEL #5-S (2-a TYPHOON WIRE SENT 21 FEB. 1945 (3-18 DEC. 1944 LOG#21662-X-239- SURVIVORS RESCUED BY BROWN (DD-546) MC CRANE,Joseph C.,650-38-29.,WT2c Sponsor:Bruce Henderson,Friend. DARDEN, Robert J.,566-39-11.,MM2c FENN,Evan (n)., 884-74-23.,F1c Sponsor: Bruce Henderson, Friend. CARPENTER, Doil T.,(unknown), S1c STORY, James T.,670-55-27.,WT2c Sponsor: Bruce Henderson, Friend. KRAMER, William F.,225-38-06.,F1c You will note that the roster of survivors does not include Keith Abbott because he was not a survivor and the stories he provided for the book: Halsey's Typhoon are a figment of his imagination. All information under the title:"Abbott, on page 313 should be read with whatever emotion you wish to assign to it. I doubted that the stories would appear in the second edition of the book, however,unfortunately, they did. LCDR Archie G. DeRyckere,USN,(Ret.). GUIO,Joseph,Jr.,Typhoon Cobra deceased number 239. Sponsor:Robert Drury & Tom Clavin,Friends. Joseph was not listed as a member of the crew of the Monaghan by National Archives,however he was a valid member who performed courageously during the typhoon,assisting his shipmates to escape the sinking ship,fighting the storm elements to get a life raft off the ship(which was used to save the six survivors of the Monaghan). He injured his foot badly during his rescue efforts and having lost a lot of blood, kept drifting in and out. At one point he awoke groggily and asked McCrane if he could see anything, "The stars,"Mcrane answered. "I can't see a thing," Guio said. He thanked McCrane for trying to keep him warm, and others helping him ,too.Guio then laid his head back on McCranes shoulder and "went to sleep" McCrane tried to awaken him and then told the others that Guio was dead. They recited the Lord's Prayer as the heroic Joe Guio was lowered over the side. Joe Guio was not listed by National Archives as missing from the Monaghan but was discovered by the investigation by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin,Authors:; Halsey's Typhoon. 1 |
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