Entry: 14893
Subject: GEORGE R. HOUSEKEEPER SR.
John Housekeeper wrote on February 10, 2001
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City and State: LANSDALE PA
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Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: Would appreciate anyone serving with my Dad on the WHINDHAM BAY durinf the Koreana War to please contact me. His grade was a TELEMAN 1st class. At that time he was 56 years old. His job included the delivery of mail to shore and return when in port, as well as various things I would suppose. He served in WW1,(Naval Aviation) WW2, (Midway Island) Korean War (WINDHAM BAY). Between wars he worked for the US Post Office in Philadelphia, PA.It would be great to hear from those who served with him on the carrier. Both my brother and myself would be grateful. Hiis third son George Jr. was lost at the Chosin Reservoir on Dec 2nd. but carried as a MIA . Dad never knew the final outcome as he passed away in 1976. Thanks for any replies we may receive. John.
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USS WINDHAM BAY CVE - Teleman 1st Class George R Housekeeper Sr. (Seeking friends of)
Entry: 13628
Subject: USS WINDHAM BAY
Haskell Citty wrote on December 14, 2000
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City and State: IDABEL OK
Unit: USS WINDHAM BAY (CVE-92)
Service or Relationship: Navy Veteran - Korea
Comments: I served on the Windham Bay during the early fifties. I would be interested in hearing from any of my old shipmates.
Keywords: Hack
Entry: 13024
Subject: REMEMBER STAN PALMER?
Marlys Palmer Jones wrote on November 16, 2000
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City and State: KIRKLAND WA
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: My dad Stanley Palmer served on the Windham Bay as
a machinist 1950-1951. Lives in Everett, WA. Does
anyone remember hi
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Entry: 13023
Subject: REMEMBER STAN PALMER?
Marlys Palmer Jones wrote on November 16, 2000
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City and State: KIRKLAND WA
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: My dad Stanley Palmer served on the Windham Bay as
a machinist 1950-1951. Lives in Everett, WA. Does
anyone remember hi
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Entry: 5045
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:
WINDHAM BAY (CVE-92)
Displacement: 10,400 t. (full load) Length: 512’3” Beam: 65”2” Extreme Width: 108’1” Draft: 22’6” Speed: 19.3 k. (trials) Complement: 860 Armament: 1 5”; 16 40mm Aircraft: 28 Class: CASABLANCA
The escort carrier stayed with the Reserve Fleet until hostilities erupted in Korea during the summer of 1950. On 28 October 1950, she was recommissioned at Bremerton, Wash., Capt. Charles E. Brunton in command.
On 20 November, she steamed south to California, visiting San Francisco on the way to San Diego where she arrived on 2 December. After 11 days, the escort carrier returned to San Francisco whence she embarked upon a voyage to Pearl Harbor on the 19th. Returning to the west coast at Alameda on 2 January 1951, the warship headed west again five days later.
She arrived in Yokohama, Japan, on the 24th and unloaded a cargo of aircraft for use in the Korean conflict which the United States had entered under the auspices of the United Nations. Departing Japan two days later, she visited Saigon in French Indochina and Manila in the Philippines before shaping a course back to the United States.
WINDHAM BAY reentered San Francisco Bay on 24 February. At this juncture, the escort carrier settled into a routine of transpacific resupply voyages between the United States and Japan. Over the next 20 months, she made nine round-trip voyages, beginning each at either San Francisco or San Diego, stopping always at Yokosuka, and returning always to San Francisco. She broke that nine-voyage routine in October and November 1952 when she visited Takao, Japan, and Bangkok, Thailand before returning, via Japan, to the west coast at Alameda on 9 December.
WINDHAM BAY continued her aircraft ferrying voyages between the United States and Japan during 1953. The war in Korea, however, began to subside in intensity at about the same time, and her passages began to take on more of a peacetime character. She began making more stops and side trips in addition to Yokosuka--notably to Hawaii, the Philippines, and at other Japanese ports.
From: DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHTING SHIPS
Keywords: MILITARY SHIP TRANSPORTATION SERVICE,