Tinian and the 509th.

les green01 · 04-08-22, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

Capt McVay can certainly be added to the list of causalities. McVay was stupidly and wrongly the subject of a Court Martial after the sinking of the Indianapolis. Capt. McVay had asked for Destroyer escorts and was denied. Destroyer escorts might have been able to detect the submarine that sunk the Indy. The testimony of the Japanese Commander of the submarine that sunk Indy also exonerated McVay.

After a good number of years suffering from mental health problems, McVay took his own life at 70. Certainly, Capt McVay suffered terribly with the loss of his crew and how a good number of them perished. After many years of efforts by survivors and others to clear his name, McVay was posthumously exonerated by Congress and President Bill Clinton on October 30th, 2000. This was small consolation after the U.S essentially rode McVay to his death.

Quote: Paul Murphy, president of the USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization, said: "Captain McVay's court-martial was simply to divert attention from the terrible loss of life caused by procedural mistakes which never alerted anyone that we were missing."

In his book Abandon Ship, author Richard F. Newcomb posits a motive for Admiral King's ordering McVay's court-martial. According to Captain McVay III's father, Admiral Charles B McVay Jr., "'King never forgot a grudge". King had been a junior officer under the command of McVay's father when King and other officers snuck some women aboard a ship. Admiral McVay had a letter of reprimand placed in King's record for that. "Now," he raged, "King's used [my son] to get back at me."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._McVay_III

Abandon Ship is a great read got the paperback here beside the desk also in harms way by staton also good can't forget the uss Juneau

Commander Wallace · 04-09-22, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by les green01

Abandon Ship is a great read got the paperback here beside the desk also in harms way by staton also good can't forget the uss Juneau

Thanks for the recommendations on the books, les.

I like reading military history books when I get a chance.

Edit. My apologies to ET2SN if we hijacked his thread.

ET2SN · 04-09-22, 12:58 PM

Hijack away.

I wound up being a bit of a buff on 509th.
After the war ended, they retained their nuclear status and moved to ROSWELL AFB in New Mexico.

Yep, that was them in 1947. Weather balloons, crashed UFOs, and everything else.

They later moved to Pease AFB near Portsmouth, N.H. and traded up to the B-52 and, eventually, the FB-111. Along the way, they "found" a stuffed tiger at Diego Garcia, BIOT that agreed to become the squadron mascot.

They were then selected to be the only B-2 wing and moved to Whiteman AFB.

Jimbuna · 04-09-22, 01:04 PM

les green01 · 04-09-22, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

its not a bad movie but they have Cage acting like a fire control officer at the first but still better than the midway remake

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ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	Hijack away. I wound up being a bit of a buff on 509th. After the war ended, they retained their nuclear status and moved to ROSWELL AFB in New Mexico. Yep, that was them in 1947. Weather balloons, crashed UFOs, and everything else. They later moved to Pease AFB near Portsmouth, N.H. and traded up to the B-52 and, eventually, the FB-111. Along the way, they "found" a stuffed tiger at Diego Garcia, BIOT that agreed to become the squadron mascot. They were then selected to be the only B-2 wing and moved to Whiteman AFB.