USS Philadelphia (Wikipedia)
Pictures
of the Philadelphia (NavSource Online)
Photos
of the Philadelphia (Naval Historical Center)
Sampson Naval Training Center
Lots of information about the NY base where over 400,000 recruits were
transformed into sailors
Personal
Story - Henry (Enrico) J. Marino
This name also appears
on a duty roster in my Dad's album
Interview
with Ervin Stocks who served on the ship in 1945
The date of the interview is significant - September 11, 2001
Nice Picture
of ship's crew and Martha Raye's visit (Geocities)
The Goat Locker
I emailed this veteran's son, but have not received a response,
probably since this is a 7 year old post. |
Name: John Loveridge
From: Denver, CO
Time: 2000-01-11 22:56:07
Comments: Hi ya: I'm Looking for information concerning the ships my dad served
on between 1934 and 1952. His name was Charles Madison Loveridge, and he left
the Navy with the rank of Chief Machinist Mate in 1950 or '51 for medical reasons.
He died in '59 when I was about six years old. I'm sort of commemorating his
life by attempting to build models of all his boats. They are, in odrder, Edsall
(DD-219) 1934 - 1941, Philadelphia (CL-41) 1941 - 1944, Alaska (CB-1) 1945 -
1947, Yorktown (CV-10) 1947 - 1950, and Navasota (AO-106) 1950 - 1952. I'd also
like to try and find any of his shipmates who are still alive (he'd have been
84 this year). Any ideas? Thanks alot, JP Loverdge |
"Bloody
Salerno" (An account by Franklin E, Daley Jr )
"No
'Abandon Ship' for Ingraham" (An account of an
August 22, 1942 incident by Franklin E. Daley Jr)
History
of the Philadelphia (Text Site)
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| May 23 - Aircraft from a carrier task group under Rear Admiral
Montgomery bomb building and other targets on Wake Island. The
light cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41) and destroyer USS Laub (DD-613)
are damaged in a collision in the Italian area. The Japanese submarine
RO-104 is sunk by the destroyer escort USS England (DE-653) north
of the Bismarck Archipelago. |
Naval
History (A commercial site, i.e. they also want
to sell you something)
USS
Augusta (Transported President Truman to the Potsdam Conference,
escorted by the Philadelphia)
