This is the exciting story of the events and operations of the UUS Steele, DE-8, in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre of War from July 1943 to September 1945.
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This is the exciting story of the events and operations of the UUS Steele, DE-8, in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre of War from July 1943 to September 1945.
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Tight binding, clean throughout, clean and colorful wraps, crisp pages, small patch of residue from old price sticker on ffep, Near Fine. 92pp, octavo.
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Good. xvi, 92 pages. Imperfect stamp inside front cover. Includes List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; and Abbreviations. Chapters cover Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; DE to the Front; South Pacific Convoy; Homecoming; A New Theatre; New Players; Kusaie and Saipan; Guam and Beyond; Prelude to Palau; Palau Invasion; Between Acts; The Philippines; Aftermath; "Vacation" in the Solomons; Crossroads; On the Benches; Submarine Duty; After Victory in Europe; Victory in the Pacific; and The Long Road Back. Also includes Appendix A through D. This is the exciting story of the events and operations of the USS Steele, DE-8, in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre of War from July 1943 to September 1945. In 1943, as one of the first two Destroyer Escorts in the Southwest Pacific, this ship escorted convoys through submarine-infested waters in the area of the Solomon and Marshall Islands and was one of the first ships into Majuro, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok. In 1944 the USS Steele, DE-8, escorted convoys to Saipan and Guam, and assisted in the raids on Marcus and Wake Islands and the shore bombardment in the Eastern Carolines. The ship participated in the invasion of the Palaus and Leyte. The vessel was engaged in the training of Allied submarines in evasive tactics to thwart Japanese submarine attacks on Allied shipping. The ship and its crew of 186 officers and men sailed 142, 439 miles or equal to 5.7 times around the world in the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean in contributing to the defeat of the Japanese in WWII. Walbrook D. Swank Walbrook "Wally" Davis Swank (November 20, 1910-May 4, 2008) was a World War II officer and a noted historical author. Colonel Swank was the personnel officer on the staffs of the commanding generals of the Air Material Command and Seventeenth Air Force Service Command, Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command and the Alaskan Air Command. Col. Swank was an author of numerous Civil War stories and authored 17 books relating to historical events, activities and people of Louisa County, Virginia. Colonel Swank also wrote about Abraham Lincoln and incidents concerning Ulysses S. Grant. He also produced four books on the history of World War II. USS Steele (BDE-8/DE-8) was an Evarts-class short-hull destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy. Steele, with her group, supported the amphibious assault on Peleliu, Palau Islands, by patrolling between there and Mindanao, Philippine Islands. After refueling on 23 September, the group shifted their patrol area to the northeast of the Palaus. On 3 October, Samuel S. Miles made a surface contact which was identified as a Japanese submarine. Steele was detached from the screen to assist the escort. The submarine had submerged, but Samuel S. Miles made sonar contact and fired two Hedgehog patterns. The second pattern produced two underwater explosions which Steele's sonar equipment picked up and a third explosion so violent that it damaged some of Miles' sonar and radar. Steele made more runs over the area but could not make contact. Miles had sunk the Japanese submarine I-364. On October 20, 1944, Steele and her group rendezvoused with Houston and Canberra, which had been hit off Formosa while serving with the 3rd Fleet. After furnishing protection for the cruisers for two days, the group was detached to rejoin the 3rd Fleet fueling group which was then supporting the liberation of Leyte. The group arrived at Ulithi on 27 October. On 1 November, Steele returned to the Palaus and operated from there until 8 January 1945, when she arrived at Ulithi for upkeep. After escorting a convoy to Saipan, the escort headed for Pearl Harbor. Steele decommissioned on 21 November and was struck from the Navy list on 5 December 1945.
