I need a Navy Historian

[Lindagerr]

I have my Fathers discharge papers and it explaines his service as :

NRS N.Y.,N.Y./NTS Sampson,N.Y./RM
Scsh. Sampson,NY/USS LST 211/AATB
Bizerte,Tunisia/RS Oran,Algeria/RS
N.Y.,N.Y./USS FORT MANDAN (LSD 21)/
NAS Nor.,Va./ATB Camp Bradford, Nor.,
Va./PSC Lido Beach, L.I.,N.Y.

Then under remarks it says:

American Theater Medal
European African Middle Eastern
Theater Medal 1 star
Victory Medal

Can anyone tell me what any of this means in civilian talk?:o

[NAP]

Hi Linda!

The only thing I recognize from my family members is "NAS Nor.,Va.", which means Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia.

You can look up each of the medals at this website:

http://usmedals.com/moaCustomSearch.aspx...&ProdFam=1

They have a picture of each of the medals and a description of why they were awarded.

I hope your weekend went well!

I'm looking forward to your getting the rest of these explained by our military friends.

NAP

[Gary]

Hi Linda!

The only thing I recognize from my family members is "NAS Nor.,Va.", which means Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia.

You can look up each of the medals at this website:

http://usmedals.com/moaCustomSearch.aspx...&ProdFam=1

They have a picture of each of the medals and a description of why they were awarded.

I hope your weekend went well!

I'm looking forward to your getting the rest of these explained by our military friends.

NAP

I believe NTS Sampson was Naval Training Station, Sampson in Geneva, NY. Sampson NTS, Geneva, NY 1942-1946 :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated to the preservation of military history It seems like he was transferred to LST-211, which was a tank landing ship. They were used for amphibious operations to land tanks/equip. They were assigned to a convoy that entered theatre of operations in Bizerte/Oran.LST-211 He probably was reassigned to USS Fort Mandan (LSD21) uss fort mandan lsd-21
NAS is Naval Air Station, Norfolk. ATB Camp Bradford is Amphibious Training Base in Virginia. PSC Lido Beach was Personnel Separation Center, Lido Beach, LI, NY, probably where he was discharged.
American Theater Medal = American Campaign Medal
EAME Medal = European/African/Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Victory Medal = World War II Victory Medal
The Theater Medal 1 star was in conjunction w/the American Theater Medal. Hope this helps some.

[ashiq2009]

Also among the lessons learned, Cressman said, was the need to provide more protection for strike groups.

"Tactically, I think one of the things we learned at Midway was the whole business of defending our various strike groups,” he said, “because we had just too few fighters. And so not only did we need more aircraft carriers, but we needed more fighters on those decks to [protect] our attack groups."

Regarded as the turning point in the Pacific during World War II, the Battle of Midway took place June 4-7, 1942. An important marker in the nation’s naval heritage, the battle changed the course of the war in the Pacific within just a few days. It came a month after the Battle of Coral Sea, the war’s first engagement between carrier forces.

“In terms of employing carrier air groups, the U.S. Navy was much more flexible than the Japanese,” Cressman said. “Had the Japanese had that flexibility after Coral Sea, they might have taken the air group off of the Shokaku and parked it on the Zuikaku for the operations, giving them one more carrier.”

However, he added, the Japanese didn’t practice that tactic. “Whereas the Americans were able to put together an air group, literally at the last minute, to put on board Yorktown, that enabled her to participate in the Battle of Midway.”

Though the U.S. Navy was able to put together an air group, coordination and communication were the two biggest lessons learned from the battle, Cressman said. The U.S. aircraft carriers Hornet, Enterprise and Yorktown all were supposed to have coordinated cover, he explained, but only Yorktown’s group had fighter cover that worked by trying to keep the Japanese fighters off the torpedo planes.

“The way things worked out, the Hornet fighters ended up getting lost and flying to nowhere,” he said. “The Enterprise fighters ended up following the Hornet torpedo planes. There was a great need shown at Midway for much better communication in terms of letting people know where they were and what they needed to do. That was one of the big lessons.”

Cressman said fate played a hand for Navy Lt. Cmdr. C. Wade McClusky to spot the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Arashi. At that time, he said, a U.S. submarine, the Nautilus -- the slowest, least maneuverable, noisiest boat in the Pacific Fleet -- had intercepted the Japanese fleet.

“They … popped up right in the middle of it,” he said. “And they caused all kinds of consternation because, you know, a submarine periscope in the middle of a force of carriers is not something you want to see. And so the Japanese were really busy trying to drive off this sub.”

At the time of the interception, Arashi was detached from the Japanese fleet to either sink or drive off Nautilus.

“And once they figured they'd done the job -- which of course, they hadn't, because Nautilus was still very much alive -- they set course to return to the Kido Butai, the carrier task force, at top speed,” Cressman said. “And of course, when a ship is moving across the ocean at top speed, it tends to leave a pretty good wake behind her. And that was what McClusky spotted, was the wake from the Arashi.”

Cressman added that the training, the courage and the dedication to duty of the men who fought on both sides in the Battle of Midway made it a battle worth commemorating.

[Gary]

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