Entry: 13531
Subject: RE-COMMISSIONING CREW 1950
Tom Bilbo wrote on December 8, 2000
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City and State: SCITUATE MA
Unit: SK3 SUPPLY
Service or Relationship: Navy Veteran - Korea
Comments: I was part of the re-commissioning crew in July 1950. We made many trips across the Pacific to Yokosuka, Kobe Sasebo Japan, also several ports in the Phillappines, Subic Bay, Manila Bay, Cavite City. Eniwetok, Bangkok Thialand. Pearl Harbor Hawaii. I served in supply from July 1950 to about Aug. 1951. Sister ship USS Sitko Bay CVE 86 comissioned at same time from Takoma WA,. We were towed to Bremerton for bottom sand blasting and painting and in one month we were at Sasebo Japan with supplies for the invasion of Inchon in Sept. 1950. Anyone who remembers me me E mail me , it has been many years since I heard from anyone.
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Entry: 13089
Subject: CAPE ESPERANCE
Dean Hill wrote on November 18, 2000
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Unit: 388TH EMS HILL AFB, UT
Service or Relationship: -
Comments: My father was on the USS Cape Esperance during the Korean war. His name was Willie Dean Hill, and I would be interested in finding or talking to anyone that has information on him during that period. I also have access to a naval picture of the ship during this time period that my father had recieved while on board.
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Entry: 9968
Subject: REUNIONS
Arnold LeMoine wrote on June 30, 2000
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Service or Relationship: Navy Veteran - Korea
Comments: Just a brief note about an upcoming reunion for the USS Cape Esperance. It will be held at the down town Holiday Inn in Green Bay, Wesconsin July 27 - 30. If you are interested, call the Holiday Inn and they can give you info and who to contact.
Keywords: Navy Veteran, Korea
Entry: 5055
Subject: SHIP'S HISTORY - KOREAN WAR SERVICE
Craig Rothhammer wrote on November 17, 1999
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City and State: LA CRESCENTA CA
Unit: USS GRASP (ARS-24) USS BOLSTER (ARS-38)
Service or Relationship: Navy Veteran - Korea
Comments:
USS CAPE ESPERANCE (CVE-88)
Displacement: 10,400 t. (full load) Length: 512’3” Beam: 65’2” Extreme Width: 108’1” Draft: 22’6” Speed: 20 k. Complement: 860 Armament: 1 5” Class: CASABLANCA
Recommissioned 5 August 1950, CAPE ESPERANCE reported to the Military Sea Transportation Service for duty as an aircraft transport.
During the next 9 years, she cruised widely in the Pacific, delivering aircraft to Japan for use in the Korean conflict, supporting atomic tests at Eniwetok, and making two voyages to bring aircraft to the Royal Thai Air Force at Bangkok.
In 1952, she sailed to Hong Kong, to evacuate Chinese Nationalist aircraft in danger of seizure by the Chinese Communists.
From: DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHTING SHIPS
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