-
Humboldt Bay 22 April, made an
exploratory sweep, and then
fired a close-in
preinvasion bombardment. Long
arrived at
Guadalcanal early in May to
prepare for...
-
Returning to the
central Pacific the next month,
Franks joined in the
preinvasion bombardment of Guam from 12 July, and gave fire
support to the ****ault...
- Truk, Satawan, and Ponape. She
cleared Majuro again on 6 June for the
preinvasion air
strikes in the
Mariana Islands, and on 19 and 20 June
launched sorties...
- for
escort carriers furnishing close air
support for the
landings and
preinvasion neutralization of
neighboring ****anese air strips.
Detached on 12 April...
-
prepared at
Majuro for the ****aults in the Marianas,
firing on
Saipan in
preinvasion bombardment on 14 June. As word came that a
large ****anese
force was...
-
October to 4 December,
covering underwater demolition teams and
firing preinvasion-bombardment, call-fire, night-har****ing and
illumination missions. Her...
- for
transports bound for the
Battle of Iwo Jima. She parti****ted in
preinvasion minesweeping for 3 days
before the
invasion landings of 19 February,...
-
reached that
important Marianas island 14 July to parti****te in the
preinvasion sweeping and bombardment. She also gave fire-support to the landings...
-
Action off
Leyte began 18
October with
little serious opposition to the
preinvasion bombardment but rose to a
crescendo climax with the
Battle of
Leyte Gulf...
-
Colorado sailed to
Luzon on 1
January 1945,
where she parti****ted in the
preinvasion bombardments in Lin****en Gulf. She
returned to
Okinawa on 6
August and...
