October 2024 - MGlenn Ross

Navy Day Does Without USS Franklin

By Glenn | October 29, 2024 |

USS Franklin In New York Harbor April 1945 80-G-K-4760

USS Franklin, showing horrendous battle damage, is moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1945.

Research Visit to the National Museum of the Pacific War

By Glenn | October 23, 2024 |

View of the George W. Bush Gallery at the National Museum of the Pacific War (Author's photo.)

Last week, I spent a morning in Fredericksburg, Texas, searching through the archives of the National Museum of the Pacific War. I was there to research my forthcoming book on the crew of USS Franklin, still today the most decorated in US Navy history. My first trip to the museum was strictly as a tourist…

USS Franklin Commissioned 14 October 1943

By Glenn | October 14, 2024 |

USS Franklin, with bunting draped underneath her bow, is floated out of dry dock on 14 October 1943.

14 October 1943 saw USS Franklin christened at the Newport News dockyard.

USS Franklin Has A Busy October

By Glenn | October 3, 2024 |

Two carriers burning after separate kamikaze strikes. USS Franklin (CV-13), at right, and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) afire after being hit by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Photographed from USS Brush (DD-745). US Navy 80-G-326798

USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) had a busy month in October 1944. Even though her crew suffered from exhaustion, they pulled their weight in the battle against the Japanese.