USS Tulagi (CVE-72) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
She was laid down on 7 June 1943 at Vancouver, Washington, United States, by the Kaiser Company, Inc., as Fortazela Bay (ACV-72); and redesignated CVE-72 on 15 July 1943. However, her name was corrected to read Fortaleza Bay on 19 October 1943, and the ship was renamed Tulagi on 6 November 1943; launched on 15 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. James Duke Earner; and commissioned on 21 December 1943, Capt. Joseph Campbell Cronin in command.
USSTulagi (CVE-72) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 7 June 1943 at Vancouver, Washington, United...
1943. The present-day Tulagi has a fishing fleet. Tulagi offers numerous scuba diving locations. The wrecks of USS Aaron Ward, USS Kanawha, and HMNZS Moa...
Battalion during the Battle of Tulagi, part of the initial landings of the Guadalcanal campaign. He went ashore on Tulagi on 7 August 1942 and Gyatt reported...
was attacked in the vicinity of Okinawa on 29 April by an aircraft from USSTulagi. The submarine was hit first by a depth charge and finally by a Mark 24...
January 1945: USS Natoma Bay (CVE- USS Marcus Island (CVE- USS Savo Island (CVE- USS Steamer Bay (CVE- USS Petrof Bay (CVE- USSTulagi (CVE- USN Task...
River in 1942 Map Tulagi-Gavutu-Tanambogo from August 7, 1942 The New Georgia group of islands Map Nggela Islands in Solomons US Navy USS LST-460 unloading...
Joseph Gilligan Jr., who was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery on Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands. John Joseph Gilligan Jr. was born on 17 June 1923...
the heavy cruiser USS Houston, the destroyer USS Peary), and the surprise Japanese attack on Darwin on 19 February 1942. The Tulagi's luck ran out in March...
landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Island in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of using Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases in supporting...
participation in the attacks on Tulagi and Shoho, earned him his second Navy Cross citation. He was later transferred to VF-10 on board USS Enterprise and became...
Squadron FIVE (VS-5), attached to the U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5), in action against enemy Japanese forces at Tulagi Harbor on 4 May 1942, and in the Battle...
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to a Kaiten mother ship on 22 October 1944. Sunk by an aircraft from USSTulagi southeast of Okinawa at 24°15′N 131°16′E / 24.250°N 131.267°E / 24...
and was a U.S. Navy World War II combat veteran, where he served on the USSTulagi from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from Tolleson Union High School in 1947...
Calvin T. Durgin and his staff turned Tulagi into his flagship. The next day, on 30 June, Kasaan Bay and Tulagi left port, accompanied by six destroyer...
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