Nice weather. Fueled from the Franklin (R19) Hancock had sub contact. Result was negative.
Open in the diary →Showers. Fueled from Savine (x25). Carriers Franklin and Belleau Wood hit seriously by suicide planes. Casualties are heavy. Both carriers lost all planes.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Franklin was seriously hit this morning. Suicide planes tried to get in on us about noon, two were shot down, the others retired. Pittsburgh has Franklin in tow. She is really a wreck. The Halsey Powell was hit at 1500 while fueling from Enterprise. We have been detailed to drop back and guard her. Our two ships we were attacked at 1600. Torpedo plane made run on us but was shot down. One suicide plane made a dive on us but pulled out at the last minute. We really though it was the end of our ship. After the task group left us the Enterprise was hit by a suicide plane. We are now 150 miles off Tokyo and about 100 miles from our group.
Open in the diary →Entered Ulithi 2100. Are task group is in including the battleships. Three carriers were hit on last operation. They are, Franklin - Enterprise, Wasp.
Open in the diary →Nice weather. Expect to pull out the 29th. Franklin left for the states today. She was really a mess
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