> > > News The Battle 75th Anniversary Taffy 3 Reunion Schedule October 24 -27, 2019. TBM Leyte Gulf. USS WHITE PLAINS was built in San Diego by National Steel and Shipbuilding. The second White Plains(AFS-4) was a combat stores ship in service from 1968 to 1995. However, Haguro's detailed action report states that Chokai's immobilizing damage resulted from a bomb hit at 0851,[3] so while this claim is plausible it is not verified by Japanese sources. After the tragedy, a complete review of these fasteners was conducted navy wide. The U.S.S. While off the West Coast, the White Plains conducted operational training for her own ship's company and carrier qualifications for three air squadrons. 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The White Plains entered Boston Harbor on 17 February 1946, and then began preparations for decommissioning. The plan took into account the surface area of exposed portions of the ship and pounds per square inch of expected force generated by typhoon winds along with the strength of pier cleats, bollards and deadmen. The USS White Plains AFS-4 is one of the ships on the DVA's presumed exposed to Agent Orange list. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. USS White Plains Pictures. In April, she embarked her own permanently assigned air unit, Composite Squadron 4 (VC-4), composed of 16 Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters and 12 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo planes. After nine days in port, she got underway for Pearl Harbor and stopped there only briefly on 1 November before setting out on the return voyage to the West Coast. There were many nervous sailors looking back at the tanker wondering if it would turn and not strike us. USS White Plains (CVE-66) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from USS White Plains.. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces veterans on the web with over 500,000 members! On 17 January, the ship headed back to Oahu, arriving in Pearl Harbor six days later. The ship was named after the city of White Plains, New York, scene of the Battle of White Plains during the American Revolutionary War Construction and commissioning. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. "Taffy 3", commanded by Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague , first learned of Kurita's presence when, at 0637, a pilot on routine air patrol spotted Kurita's task force and attacked it with depth charges. The ship was named after the city of White Plains, New York, scene of the Battle of White Plains during the American Revolutionary War. Threads and Posts; Total Threads: 4: On 17 June, while helping to fight off those raids, her antiaircraft gunners earned their first definite kill. White Plains was struck by the U.S.S. Information on 2007 Reunion.. Post your Questions here! I had a great time and intend to go again next year. She departed the West Coast from the San Diego Naval Base on 24 April, and she arrived at Pearl Harbor on 1 May. She steamed to the naval base at Manus with the other surviving carriers, arriving on 31 October. Moderators: USS WHITE PLAINS ASSOCIATION, sgedmison. The cause of the valve stem ejection was from navy supply system black coated/painted fasteners, that were not the right type of metal (brass vs. copper) to withstand the pressure and heat of the system and environment. The springlay lines gave way followed by the nylon lines. The USS White Plains completed her outfitting at Astoria, Oregon, on 4 December 1943, and then she began shakedown training on 8 December. Their planes provided a portion of the prelanding bombardment and support for the troops after the assault on 15 September. [1] The ship and the ship's crew never really recovered from the tragedy. Very fortunate to have run aground near Polaris Point, after the ship left the pier in the storm, the ship lost its only power source for a day, a notoriously fickle emergency diesel generator. The second USS White Plains (AFS-4) was a combat stores ship in service from 1968 to 1995. No enemy air attacks developed because the Japanese were husbanding their aircraft for the defense of the Philippines, and as a result of Japan's new strategic concept of defense in depth at some distance from the beaches, few shore batteries were sited near enough to the coast to fire upon ships. Pierwszy "White Plains" (CVE-66) był lotniskowcem eskortowym będącym w służbie w latach 1943 - 46, brał udział w bitwie koło Samar będącej częścią bitwy morskiej o Leyte; Drugi "White Plains" (AFS-4) był okrętem magazynowym (ang. Three heavy cruisers had fallen prey to American submarine attacks in Palawan Passage on 23 October, and Musashi and Myōkō succumbed to Task Force 38's air attacks in the Sibuyan Sea on the following day. USS White Plains (AFS-4) was the fourth Mars-class combat stores ship of the United States Navy. There was no real damage to the ship's hull. She arrived at Tarawa Atoll on 11 January 1944 and unloaded the aircraft she had transported. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Thread: Announcement: Sticky: Locked: new New: Poll: Bookmark: Board Information & Statistics. The ship with its skeleton crew rode out Omar's 150 mph winds in Apra Harbor. At the conclusion of her initial cruise, the warship entered San Diego on 21 December. They launched their surface counterattack in three distinct phases. While the ship was aground for 3–5 days, the crew sustained on MREs, and helped plan, with harbor operations, for her ungrounding. She arrived at San Pedro, California, on 22 August but soon moved to San Diego. Nylon mooring lines can stretch up to a third of their length with no damage to the line. In contrast to the Marianas campaign and later operations, the Palaus, though extremely difficult on the troops ashore, brought little opposition to the ships in the waters surrounding the islands. On 9 May 1989, while underway in the South China Sea en route to Guam, the White Plains experienced a major Class Bravo fire in the main engine room while conducting underway fuel replenishment with the combat replenishment ship USS Sacramento (AOE-1). Her antiaircraft gunners responded, hitting one of the intruders, which immediately changed course and crashed into USS St. Damaged by surface gunfire during the Leyte Gulf battle and then attacked by two kamikazes. Okręty US Navy o nazwie USS "White Plains" pochodzącej od bitwy w czasie rewolucji amerykańskiej: . On the next day, she got underway for Majuro where she arrived on 5 February. The Registered Agent on file for this company is (Optional) None Provided and is located at 2283 E 15th Ave Robert F Johnson, North St Paul, MN 55109. On 28 September, she pointed her bow eastward and set a course, via Pearl Harbor, for San Diego. She arrived at Alameda, California, on San Francisco Bay on 3 March. The ship, well past its life cycle and usefulness to the U.S. Navy, was decommissioned in 1995. Decommissioned on April 17, 1995, and stricken from the Navy list on August 24, 1995, WHITE PLAINS was then berthed at the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility Pearl Harbor, HI. 4: 5: Reunion 2008 by sgedmison Jul 30, 2007 10:22:20 GMT -5 White Plains was the guide ship and as such just maintains the course heading, the ship receiving is supposed to maintain the distance between ships. In the late 1980s, the ship was one of the first U.S. Navy ships to have women sailors aboard. The portion of the Fleet containing the White Plains sortied from Eniwetok Atoll, and during the voyage from there to the Marianas, her aircraft provided antisubmarine warfare patrols and part of the combat air patrol. Rear Admiral Sprague was incredulous about the presence of the Japanese Navy, and he demanded identification verification—which came, disconcertingly enough, when the enemy battleships' pagoda-style masts loomed over the horizon. 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