Talk:USS Cortland

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:57, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Addendum: to the USS Cortland History

The following was added to the article on 2 September 2009, by User:Gerhard68, apparently a former member of the crew:

Between 5 April- 8 April 1945 she transported a load of troops from Hawaii Islands to replace troops on Midway Island and returned. This was the trip Tokyo Rose said the USS Cortland would not get to it destination. Our radio room picked up this message while we were underway.

The Cortland also spent time in the following Island groups and country during 1945, which was not mentioned in the ship's history on the internet.

• 26 June - 8 July 1945 Entwetok, Marshall Islands
• 14 July - 18 July 1945 Ulithi, Caroline Islands
• 5 September - 8 September 1945 Jinsen, Korea for the re-occupation of this country.

We were with some of the first American ships going into Korea to take it over from the Japanese troops.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Gerhard returned to expand on the above in September 2009, as follows:

The following information was omitted from the ship’s history on the Internet.

Tokyo Rose

During 5–8 April 1945 Cortland transported a load of troops from Hawaii Islands to replace troops on Midway Island and returned, this was the trip “Tokyo Rose” said the USS Cortland would not get to its destination. Our radio room picked up this message while we were underway with the troops.

Southern Pacific Islands

The Cortland spent time in the following island groups during 1945, 26 June – 8 July Entwetok, Marshall Islands, and 14 July – 18 July Ulithi, Caroline Islands. These two island groups are in the lower southern part of the Pacific Ocean. The weather was very warm.

Okinawa Suicide Planes

13–24 August 1945 during this time while anchored at Okinawa, we experienced numerous Japanese suicide plane air raids at various hours though out the nights. We had to man our battle stations, and also lay smoke screens around our entire ship to protect ourselves. There were some American ships, that did get hit or damage from these suicide raids.

Reoccupation of the country, Korea

5–8 September 1945 the Cortland went to Jinsen, Korea with their amphibious force for the take over of this country from the Japanese. There were several other amphibious ships with us on this mission. The town of Jinsen is now named Inchon, Korea.

Typhoon Louise

8 October 1945 The Cortland and its crew got caught in the center of a typhoon name “Louise”, which is known to have been the most furious and lethal storm ever encountered by the United States Navy’s in its entire history.

Gatoclass (talk) 09:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)