Combat Loaded: Across the Pacific on the USS Tate

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ILLUSTRATIONS Photos P.1 Hot Tater /xvii 1.1 Milton J. Buswell /3 1.2 USS Tate (AKA-70) /7 1.3 Howard C. Colley /8 1.4 Israel Kampel /9 1.5 Kampel as member of Shore Patrol /10 1.6 Charles H. Gries /11 2.1 Commissioning /15 2.2 Rupert E. Lyon /24 3.1 Under Way /29 3.2 Paul R. Leahy /33 4.1 Bridge Officers /37 4.2 Tate and Boats /40 5.1 Tate’s 20-mm Guns /57 5.2 Tate’s 40-mm Bofors /59 5.3 Tate’s Five-Incher /63 6.1 Fortunate “Forty” Salerno /68 6.2 Clinton E. Alexander /74 7.1 LCMs and LCVPs /83 7.2 LCP-L /85 7.3 Green Beach T-1 /88 7.4 Red Beach T-1 /88 7.5 Red Beach T-2 /88 8.1 Red Beach T-3 /99 8.2 Red Beach T-4 /100 9.1 Lewis A. Crew /116 10.1 Uel and Darlene Smith /125 10.2 Quartermasters /128 10.3 Japanese surrender delegation, Ie Shima /133 11.1 Fredrick C. Heinan /147 11.2 Burial at Sea /152 11.3 Hubert J. Six Sr. /154 12.1 Alvin L. Joslyn /160 Figures 1.1 General Profile of Tolland (AKA) Class /6 A.1 USS Tate (AKA-70) Organization /180 Maps P.1 Theater of Major Operations /xii 4.1 Assault on Kerama Retto, March 26, 1945 /42 4.2 Capture of Kerama Retto, March 26 –29, 1945 /48 5.1 Transport Squadron 17, Evening Retirement from Kerama Retto, April 2, 1945 (1840 hours) /61 5.2 Transport Squadron 17, Evening Retirement from Kerama Retto, April 2, 1945 (1903 hours) /65 7.1 Naval Gun Fire Map for Ie Shima, April 16, 1945 /97 8.1 Assault on Ie Shima, April 16, 1945 /97 8.2 Capture of Ie Shima, April 17–21, 1945 /112 Tables 1.1 Landing Craft General Specifications /12 3.1 Initial Composition of Transport Squadron 17 /27 7.1 Composition of Transport Squadron 17 at Ie Shima /78 7.2 Ie Shima Red Beach T-2 Landing Diagram /86 7.3 Schedules of Fires for Ie Shima Attack Force on April 16, 1945 /90 C.1 World War II Attack Cargo Ships (AKA) /186 C.2 AKA Shipbuilders /191 x FIGURES AND MAPS Indian Ocean East China Sea South China Sea Yellow Sea Leyte Gulf P a c i f i c 40° 160° 140° 120° 20° EQUATOR 120° 140° 160° SOVIET UNION C H I N A Tokyo Chinwangtao Tsingtao Taku-Teintsin Inchon Manila KowloonHong Kong M a n c h u r i a KOREA AUSTRALIA PHILIPPINES N e t h e r l a n d s I n d i e s Solomon Islands Mariana Islands Ryukyus Guam Saipan Guadalcanal Tulagi Palau Ulithi Okinawa (see inset map) Formosa Luzon Kyushu Leyte Samar Caroline Islands J A P A N New Guinea Borneo CSR Map P.1. USS Tate (AKA-70), Theater of Major Operations. Courtesy Chris Robinson. O c e a n 20° EQUATOR° 180° 160° 40° Hawaiian Islands Marshall Islands Kwajalein Eniwetok 0 1600 800 Miles at the Equator USS Tate (AKA-70) Theater of Major Operations Naha Shuri Castle Ie Shima MOTOBU PENINSULA Keise Shima Kerama Retto Buckner Bay Nago Wan Anchorage Hagushi Anchorage 0 10 Miles Okinawa N ...