THEDFORD, EDWIN HENLY, Seaman Second Class (no. 3602702), USS Langley, US Navy, †01/03/1942
Mother, Mrs. Margrette Thedford Daniels, 521 Spencer Ave., San Antonio, Tex.
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3). In 1937, she was converted from carrier to tender. On 27th February 1942, Langley, escorted by destroyers Whipple and Edsall, was attacked by 29 Japanese bombers, some 75 miles South of Tjilatjap. During the third raid, Langley took five hits and 16 crew members were killed. The topside burst into flames, steering was impaired, and the ship developed a ten-degree list to port and went dead in the water, as her engine room flooded. The order to abandon ship was passed and the escorting destroyers fired shells and two torpedoes into Langley, to prevent capture by the enemy and she sank.
USS Edsall picked up 177 survivors; USS Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on USS Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi´s Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138146
Mother, Mrs. Margrette Thedford Daniels, 521 Spencer Ave., San Antonio, Tex.
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3). In 1937, she was converted from carrier to tender. On 27th February 1942, Langley, escorted by destroyers Whipple and Edsall, was attacked by 29 Japanese bombers, some 75 miles South of Tjilatjap. During the third raid, Langley took five hits and 16 crew members were killed. The topside burst into flames, steering was impaired, and the ship developed a ten-degree list to port and went dead in the water, as her engine room flooded. The order to abandon ship was passed and the escorting destroyers fired shells and two torpedoes into Langley, to prevent capture by the enemy and she sank.
USS Edsall picked up 177 survivors; USS Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on USS Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi´s Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138146
THEDFORD, EDWIN HENLY, Seaman Second Class (no. 3602702), USS Langley, US Navy, †01/03/1942
Mother, Mrs. Margrette Thedford Daniels, 521 Spencer Ave., San Antonio, Tex.
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3). In 1937, she was converted from carrier to tender. On 27th February 1942, Langley, escorted by destroyers Whipple and Edsall, was attacked by 29 Japanese bombers, some 75 miles South of Tjilatjap. During the third raid, Langley took five hits and 16 crew members were killed. The topside burst into flames, steering was impaired, and the ship developed a ten-degree list to port and went dead in the water, as her engine room flooded. The order to abandon ship was passed and the escorting destroyers fired shells and two torpedoes into Langley, to prevent capture by the enemy and she sank.
USS Edsall picked up 177 survivors; USS Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on USS Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi´s Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138146
Mother, Mrs. Margrette Thedford Daniels, 521 Spencer Ave., San Antonio, Tex.
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USS LANGLEY (CV-1 AV-3)
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3). In 1937, she was converted from carrier to tender. On 27th February 1942, Langley, escorted by destroyers Whipple and Edsall, was attacked by 29 Japanese bombers, some 75 miles South of Tjilatjap. During the third raid, Langley took five hits and 16 crew members were killed. The topside burst into flames, steering was impaired, and the ship developed a ten-degree list to port and went dead in the water, as her engine room flooded. The order to abandon ship was passed and the escorting destroyers fired shells and two torpedoes into Langley, to prevent capture by the enemy and she sank.
USS Edsall picked up 177 survivors; USS Whipple, 308. On March 1st the destroyers landed the survivors on USS Pecos and Pecos, now carrying about 700 survivors from Langley, Stewart and Houston headed for Australia. Later in the day, she was attacked for hours and sunk by Japanese bombers from the carriers of VADM Nagumo Chuichi´s Kido Butai.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138146
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