Patty Encinas Williams passed away on Saturday 17 February at home. A Celebration of her life will be at the Oak Harbor First United Methodist Church on 23 March!
Condolences to retired Captain Dave Williams
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19 March 2024
1918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
from - http://www.scopesys.com
in military history
rom - https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com
1942 – SecNav gave Civil Engineering Corps command of Seabees.
1945 – Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 – The first all-Coast Guard hunter-killer group ever established during the war, made up of four units of Escort Division 46, searched for a reported German U-boat near Sable Island. The hunter-killer group was made up of the Coast Guard-manned destroyer escorts USS Lowe, Menges, Mosley, and Pride, and was under the overall command of CDR R. H. French, USCG. He flew his pennant from the Pride. Off Sable Island the warships located, attacked and sank the U-866 with the loss of all hands. Interestingly, the Menges had been a victim of a German acoustic torpedo during escort of convoy operations in the Mediterranean in 1944. The torpedo had detonated directly under her stern, causing major damage and casualties, but she remained afloat. She was later towed to port and the stern of another destroyer escort, one that had been damaged well forward, was welded onto the Menges. She then returned to action.