- USS
Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) was the
seventeenth of
fifty Casablanca-class
escort carrier built for the
United States Navy
during World War II. She was launched...
- ("Taffy 3")
consisted of
Fanshaw Bay, St. Lo,
White Plains,
Kalinin Bay,
Kitkun Bay and
Gambier Bay.
Screening for Taffy 3 were the
destroyers Hoel, Heermann...
- ****isting
Kitkun Bay, and
rescued a
Kitkun Bay
sailor from the water. She
continued to
screen the
escort carrier and sent
boats to
return Kitkun Bay personnel...
-
escort carriers until 18 September, when
Johnston was re****igned to
escort Kitkun Bay,
White Plains, and
Gambier Bay.
Johnston and her
charges received orders...
- with St. Lo.
Three other Taffy 3
escort carriers, USS Kalinin Bay, USS
Kitkun Bay and
White Plains, were also
damaged in the same
kamikaze attack. Vice-Admiral...
- the
command of Rear
Admiral Calvin T. Durgin,
Shamrock Bay and her
sister Kitkun Bay were ****igned to Rear
Admiral Ralph A. Ofstie's Task Unit 77.4.3, the...
-
damaging it badly. The
other hit the aft port stack,
destroying it. USS
Kitkun Bay (CVE-71): The port
catwalk was
clipped and the
aircraft exploded off...
-
attacked several escort carriers. One Zero
attempted to hit the
bridge of USS
Kitkun Bay but
instead exploded on the port
catwalk and
cartwheeled into the sea...
- (127 mm) s****. However,
fatal damage occurred when air
attacks from USS
Kitkun Bay
dropped a bomb down the stack,
destroying her
engine room.
After her...
- staged.
Screened by four
destroyer escorts,
Gambier Bay and her
sister ship
Kitkun Bay
escorted transports and
amphibious landing ships safely to
Leyte Gulf...
