SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 7, 2020) U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 2nd Class Olivia Quinci, from San Diego, Calif., monitors aircraft aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) April 7, 2020. ... 2020, based on Navy and public data. USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell return to San Diego The ships are part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a deployment to … ( Log Out /  Austin is a general assignments reporter for WAFB 9News in Baton Rouge. In the time-bending world of wartime censorship, military authorities had deemed June 27 as the proper day to release the news that the USS Bunker Hill had incurred heavy damage and hundreds of casualties in a kamikaze attack on … May 11. USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell return to San Diego The ships are part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a deployment to … In 1945 it was crippled after a kamikaze attack. (U.S. Navy/MC3 Nicholas Huynh) “There were so many acts of outstanding heroism, it would be impossible to praise anyone over another,” the Bunker Hill‘s skipper, Capt. Jump to. USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy constructed by Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched on 11 March 1985. Joining the US Pacific Fleet, it supported Allied efforts during the island-hopping campaign across the Pacific. The bomb, fitted with a delayed action fuse, pierced the flight deck at a sharp angle, passed out through the side of the hull and exploded in mid-air before striking the water. Phelps Adams would return to the job he had held since 1928, serving as a Washington correspondent for the Sun, before joining U.S. Steel in 1950 after the newspaper shut down. USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) fires ordnance during an Independence Day celebration near the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on July 4, 2020. He remained with the company through his retirement in 1967 and died in 1991. I enjoyed every bit of it.”. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. 95-year-old WWII veteran says he would enlist in the Navy again if he could, November 11, 2020 at 4:07 PM CST - Updated November 11 at 6:45 PM, St. Vincent de Paul offering to-go Thanksgiving meals due to pandemic. A thousand feet long.". BATON ROUGE, La. A five-inch shell that should have blown him out of the sky set him afire and riddled his plane with metal, but still he came. 559 likes. Xavier Vavasseur 22 Apr 2020 . The men of the Bunker Hill had been in combat mode for 58 consecutive days, supporting operations off Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and beyond. USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell return to San Diego The ships are part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a deployment to the region on January 17, military officials said. Everyone had to volunteer for something, something you could get into you know.”. I can tell you that. For eight seemingly interminable hours that followed the ship and her crew fought as tense and terrifying a battle for survival as has ever been witnessed in the Pacific but when dusk closed in, the U.S.S. This plane was a Jap dive-bomber — a Judy. The Navy had suffered a significant loss, the flight deck of one of its carriers looking more like “the crater of a volcano,” Adams wrote. His deeply lined face was more than weather beaten — it looked like an example of erosion in the dust-bowl country — but his eyes flashed fire and vengeance.”. SAN DIEGO (July 8, 2020) -- The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS … Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. George A. Seitz, said in the Navy release on June 27. “Everybody had to volunteer for something, whatever you could get in to.”. Welcome to the official ombudsman page of the USS Bunker Hill CG-52. Change ), USS Bunker Hill kamikaze attack: ‘Now It Can Be Told’ – faujibratsden, Thanksgiving 1942: Exporting an American holiday, Gen. George S. Patton and the slaps heard ’round the world, Ralph Barnes: First U.S. war correspondent to fall, Kristallnacht: The night the world took notice, Sinking of the USS Tang: ‘Like the world coming to an end’. It’s a big floating city. As the crew fought the existing fires, new explosions kept popping off once the flames reached a fuel tank or ammunition stores. USS America (top center), USS Barry (top left) and USS Bunker Hill (rear) conduct office of the watch maneuvers in the South China Sea with Royal Australian Navy helicopter frigate HMAS Parramatta (top right), April 2020. That ended up being the Navy, where he served as a deckhand on the USS Bunker Hill CV-17. By MC3 Nicholas Huynh, USS Bunker Hill Posted February 7, 2020 USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) approaches Saipan, Feb. 7. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It’s a big floating city. The ship was not at general quarters when the attack came, the men not on watch finally permitted to relax. An Essex-class aircraft carrier, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) entered service in 1943. ... 2020 you will need to be added again. USS America (LHA-6), left, and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) transit the South China Sea on April 18, 2020. It is hard to believe that men could survive those flames, or that metal could withstand such heat. They kept the boilers going and the pressure in the fire mains.”, By the end of May 11, Admiral Mitscher had left Seitz to nurse the Bunker Hill home and transferred to the Enterprise, making the “Big E” his new flagship. Some of the pilots were blown overboard, and many managed to scramble to safety, but before a move could be made to fight the flames another kamikaze came whining out of the clouds, straight into the deadly anti-aircraft guns of the ship. …. His story began this way: Aboard a Fast Carrier in the Forward Pacific Area, May 11 [Delayed] — Two Japanese suicide planes carrying 1,100 pounds of bombs plunged into the flight deck of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher’s own flagship early today killing several hundred officers and men and transforming one of our biggest flat-tops into a floating torch, with flames soaring nearly 1,000 feet in the sky. Eventually other ships were able to come alongside, “like fireboats in New York Harbor,” and help hose down the listing carrier. August 10, 2020 12:18 PM. Copyright 2020 WAFB. USS Bunker Hill trials experimental hardkill/softkill integration tool. As Adams would note in his dispatch from the unnamed carrier — he was aboard the Enterprise — luck was on the Japanese pilots’ side. The following is the April 29, 2020 statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. ( Log Out /  USS Bunker Hill Vice Adm. Richard Brown, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, presented the Battle Effectiveness (Battle “E”) award to the crew of the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), July 31, while the ship was underway conducting operations in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Details of the attack and the crew’s heroic effort in saving the ship dominated front pages the day after the release, bolstered by dramatic pictures of the burning carrier taken by Navy photographers. “Who knows?”. Capt. Saipan (Feb. 7, 2020)--The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) arrived in Saipan for a port visit, Feb. 7. ( Log Out /  Above: USS Bunker Hill, assigned to the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, and the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group participate in dual-carrier operations in the Philippine Sea on June 23, 2020. “It was a big, big war we had and if you didn’t get involved in it you were kind of an outcast. “Perhaps her next task will be to cover the invasion of Tokyo itself,” Adams concluded his story. Mitscher had seen several of his staff killed and wounded in the attack. Now the fight was on to save the ship. The plane — a single-engined Jap fighter — knocked the parked aircraft about like ten-pins, sent a huge column of flame and smoke belching upwards and then skidded crazily over the side. “Aircraft carrier was good duty,” Cotton said. The kicker headline on the Boston Globe front page for June 28, 1945 said it all: “NOW IT CAN BE TOLD”. But the two-year-old ship was afloat and able to head back to Bremerton Navy Yard in Washington under her own power, her remaining crew still able to continue the fight. 13 May 2020. 844 Government StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802(225) 383-9999. The Bunker Hill was still undergoing repairs when V-J Day arrived and she never saw battle again, though she did bring U.S. troops back from the Pacific theater before being decommissioned in January 1947. ... March 5, 2020 … “It’s been a long time ago, man. The guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill sailed through the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea Wednesday, according to the the U.S. 7th Fleet. All rights reserved. SAN DIEGO (July 8, 2020) -- The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) returned to San Diego July 8 after a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. “It was a big, big war we had on and if you didn’t get involved in it you were an outcast,” he said. Sections of this page. Pingback: USS Bunker Hill kamikaze attack: ‘Now It Can Be Told’ – faujibratsden. USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell return to San Diego The ships are part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and departed on a deployment to … Then he flipped over and torched through the flight deck at the base of the island. The aircraft carrier saw its fair share of combat in the Pacific Theater.