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BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANNA 2014 HOLIDAY INN-SOUTH DATES; OCTOBER 2 to 5 from the Officers and Board Members of the USS Haynsworth Reunion Committee U.S.S. Haynsworth DD-700 Newsletter Issue 74 (November Juliet Tango Alpha) July, 2014 (p-1) Official Newsletter for the USS Haynsworth Reunion Committee BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANNA 2014 HOLIDAY INN-SOUTH DATES; OCTOBER 2 to 5 From the Officers and Board Members of the USS Haynsworth Reunion Committee. HOST and HOSTESS: James and Ann Murphy, SM3/c 1957 to 1960, Vero Beach Florida. Holiday Inn Baton Rouge, LA (home base) The old Louisiana State House Arial View of Baton Rouge, LA th on the Mississippi River Jim and Ann have developed an exciting agenda for this years 25 annual Reunion. On Thursday, 2 Oct., we will visit the Holly- Wood Casino for gaming and Buffet lunch. From there we will travel to Boudins Cajun Restaurant for good Cajun Food and Music. Friday we will go on a Cajun Pride Swamp tour and picnic. From there we travel to the National WWII Museum. On Saturday we will visit the USS Kidd DD-661 where we will also conduct our Annual Memorial Service. After return to Hotel we will prepare for our Annual Banquet with entertainment by Les Danseurs de la Capitale de Baton Rouge. (A Cajun Dance Group) Following will be our annual raffles and silent auction drawings! Be prepared to have a great time reconnecting w/ shipmates! PLEASE, PLEASE GET YOUR RESERVATION’S IN EARLY! USS Haynsworth Newsletter July, 2014 USS HAYNSWORTH DD-700 NEWSLETTER July, 2014 (P-16) James F. Horn 2 Surrey Court Chambersburg, PA 17201-8756 Newsletter Editor/Treasurer/ and Ship’s Store Clerk. ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED If your name or address is not correct or any of the information within is not correct or if you have any news or stories you wish to share with your ship- mates, please contact the Editor. If you wish to discontinue receiving this newsletter, please return this copy or notify Editor If you would like to receive the e-newsletter exclusively, e-mail me. (It’s great in color!) SHIP’S STORE The following items are available in our Ship’s Store. All orders include shipping. For all purchase requests, please send check to the above “return address”. USS Haynsworth, DD-700 mesh Ball Cap (specify with/without “eggs)-----$12.00* USS Haynsworth Patch (embroidered 5” Dia.).-----------------------------------$ 5.00 USS Haynsworth Golf Shirt,(Navy Blue ) with: Gold embroidered ship, name, and hull number).S/M/L/XL XXL------$35.00* DD-700 T-Shirts (Limited sizes)-------------------------------------------------------$20.00* USS Haynsworth DD-700 +Tin Can Sailor License Plate Frame--------------$13.00* Official Gov. Issue Foul Weather Jacket, embroidered with: “Name”, “USS Haynsworth” “DD700”, and ships patch.(only sizes left)---(M/L/XL) Contact Jim Horn for details.($30 goes to our Org.)--(supply source is drying up!)------$300.00 (Note: some prices have increased due to increased mailing costs. See *) Make all checks payable to: “USS HAYNSWORTH REUNION COMMITTEE” Send check to: James F. Horn 2 Surrey Court Chambersburg, PA 17201-8756 USS Haynsworth Newsletter NEW SECTION FOR 2014 (July 2014 page 3) In this NEW SECTION I will be selecting some excerpts from the New Book titled “PHALANX AGAINST A DIVINE WIND”, the story of the USS Haynsworth’s participation in WWII, 1944 to 1945. This book is being written by the son-in-law (Martin J. Irons) of John (Jack) McAllister, RM3/c 1944 to 1946. Jack passed away on November 11, 1992. See the December 2013 issue for more details on this. Over the past few months Marty has been sending numerous ‘This Day in the History of the Haynsworth’ which I have been forwarding to all shipmates’ having an active e-mail address, approximately 200+ a few more, of these 200+ only ninety have opted to receive the Haynsworth newsletter exclusively by E-mail. That leaves more than one hundred who receive the Newsletter in both formats. My current mail list for the printed Newsletter now stands at 416. Of this number I am certain that there are shipmates that do have access to E- mail that I do not have. Also, I realize that of those, some may not be able to print out a personal hard copy, and therefore, wish to continue receiving the printed copy. Anyway, I digress. Bottom line is, it is in the interest of our organization to increase the number of electronic recipients and decrease the number of printed editions. As for the section title above, you will notice this section will only last for the whole of 2014. The Book will have been published by then and all shipmates will be able to purchase their own copy. With this, I will include excerpts from the book beginning with the first ‘This Day in the History of the Haynsworth. Enjoy! Jim, Editor/Treasurer ************************************************************************************** (Editors Note: I ended this series in the April 2014 issue with: “This Day in DD-700 History on April 6, 1945.) In this issue I continue with April/7/1945. This day in DD 700 History. Apr 7, 1945. “Though the mass attacks on April 6 had passed, the kamikazes were by no means finished. The next day brought a renewal of the efforts of the Japanese to attack the US invasion forces with devastating attacks from the air and sea. Midday a raider slips through and drops it’s bomb on the USS Hancock (CV-19). The explosion causes the kamikaze’s plane to cartwheel across the deck into plans spotted aft. Fires erupt on both ends of the deck. Some of the carriers sailors are blown overboard, others jump to avoid the flames.” Within Task Group 58.3, the USS Haynsworth is sailing blind without radar. The destruction of the radio transmitter room and radio central, turns the destroyer deaf to most radio communications with the fleet. Relying on the limited capacity of the emergency radio shack, the few remaining radiomen and the skills of it’s signalmen, the “Lucky 700” steams within the protective screen of the group. She will not leave the safety of the mutual fire of the screen for the rest of the time she fights with the Fast Carrier Task Force. Commander Tackney’s Haynsworth plays her part in protecting the Task Group on the second day of Kikusui No. 1. The ship that was rescued is now the rescuer. Damaged by a kamikaze like her fleet partner, USS Hancock, the “Lucky 700” recovers eight sailors from the sea that day. Bill Brecenridge, TM2/c, was the first to help bring a Hancock survivor aboard the Haynsworth. The previous day Breckenridge had to remain at his General Quarters (GQ) station at the torpedo’s despite the proximity of the fire from the kamikaze attack. Ship’s Doctor, Allyn Ley, LT(jg) (plankowner), and the pharmacist mates, exhausted from caring for the dozens of wounded in the previous twenty-three hours, make room for several more new burn victims. While the battle rages over the Task Group, nearly three hundred American fliers are in the hunt for the battleship Yamato and her companion ships. Without aerial protection of her own, the massive battleship is eventually sunk. The Yamato does not go down easily. Ordinance of eleven torpedoes and six bombs are needed to subdue the leviathan. The Yamato never gets close enough to Okinawa to do damage to the American forces. ------------------- (Continued on next page, 4) USS Haynsworth Newsletter MAIL BAG (July, 2014) (Page 4) (continued from page 3). For USS Haynsworth, burial of her killed in action,(KIA) crewmen killed in the previous day’s attack, was scheduled for 1400 hours. With the battle still raging, the burial at sea is moved back to 1816 hrs. Still at GQ, the ceremony is led by the Haynsworth’s twenty five year old Executive Officer, LT(Cdr) Scott Lothrop. Commander Stephen Tackney stays on the bridge. (Editor’s note: LTC Scott Lothrop passed away in June 1998). LTC Lothrop would have preferred that this burial (at sea) be more traditional. On another day, on a day without battle, most of the ship’s crew would be gathered. Instead of the white sailos’s uniforms and the Officer’s dress white’s, the uniform of the day was dungaree’s and chambray shirts. LTC Lothrop, like each crewmember felt exposed. Haynsworth was still serving as screen for the carrier’s, and planes were still flying overhead as the battle was still being waged. The largest kamikaze attack of the war was in it’s second day. Though all eyes were on the ceremony, no one was relaxed enough not to strain for the sound of foreign planes. That nagging feeling was reinforced by the helmeted crews already on duty at all weapons stations. The aft 5” gun mount was manned as were the 20mm machine guns on the fantail, the depth charge racks, and the depth charge K-guns. The quad 40mm tubs above the sea deck were also manned as were both sets of torpedoes. Assembled on the deck with the XO, (Executive Officer) , is part of the crew, a five man honorary guard of gunners mates, six pall bearers, and three body bearers. The remains of seven of their shipmates are lined along the deck. Each set of remains was sewn into their individual hammock. The impromptu body bags were weighted with a 54 pound 5”/38 caliber shell. The space amidships on the Haynsworth was tight. Shipmates, both on duty and off duty crowed the deck, the battle stations, and the top of the deckhouse. On this cool Saturday in April 1945, just one week after Holy Saturday, LTC Lothrop would fulfill the dual role of Exec and surrogate Chaplin.
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