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LT Crotty, USCG, WWII POW of the Japanese PACIFIC CURRENTS NEWSLETTER “They Also Serve” VOLUME XX ISSUE IV 1 DECEMBER 2019 United States Coast Guard Retiree Council Northwest LT CROTTY, USCG, WWII POW OF THE JAPANESE Lieutenant Thomas James Eugene Crotty, USCG was laid to rest on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019 at : Holy Cross Cemetery, 2900 South Park Avenue, Lackawanna, New York LT Thomas Crotty was the only Coast Guardsman to serve in the Defense of the Philippines. Crotty was the first Coast Guard prisoner of war since the War of 1812 and one of four USCG POWs during WWII. Crotty served in four different military branches while deployed to the Philippines. Crotty managed and coached Buffalo's 1929 American Legion Junior National Baseball Championship team and he was class president during his time at the Coast Guard Academy. LT Crotty’s story has been lost and forgotten like the heroic sacrifices made by thousands of defenders of Bataan and Corregidor. Jimmy Crotty was a member of the long blue line and his brief life embodied the Coast Guard’s core values of honor, respect and devotion to duty. LT Crotty was born on 18 March 1912, in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1934 after serving as Company Commander, class president and captain of the Academy’s football team. After graduation, Crotty began a promising Coast Guard career, which hardened him into a mature leader. For six years, he served on board cutters based out of New York, Seattle, Sault Ste. Marie and San Diego. His assignments included duty on cutter Tampa, during her 1934 rescue of passengers from the burning passenger liner Morro Castle; and, a Justice Department appointment as special deputy on the Bering Sea Patrol. In the late 1930s, diplomatic tensions heightened between the U.S. and Imperial Japan and the American military began sending additional personnel and units to Pacific outposts. These military moves set Jimmy Crotty on a collision course with tragic events unfolding in Cadet Thomas James Eugene the Far East. In 1941, the Coast Guard assigned him to the U.S. Navy Crotty, USCG, for specialized training in mine warfare. Jimmy probably embraced USCG Photo the opportunity to cross-train with the Navy. As one of his commanding officers wrote, Jimmy was “forceful and always enthusiastic about engaging in new problems; sometimes ‘too’ willing to attempt things when perhaps, maturer judgment would suggest further consideration.” In April 1941, Crotty received orders to the Navy’s Mine Warfare School Crotty Continued on page 2 in Yorktown, Virginia. After that training, he joined the inaugural Visit our Web site at https://www.cgretirenw.org WINTER 2019 Visit our Web site at https://www.cgretirenw.org Crotty Continued from page 1 30 days until the Japanese bombardment finally silenced the defense of the island fortress. class of the Mine Recovery School located at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard, graduating April proved a pivotal month for Crotty. On in August 1941. Crotty had become a leading Wednesday, April 1, he sent by submarine the military expert in mine warfare, demolition last message his family would ever receive. A th and the use of explosives. After completing his little over a week later, on Thursday, the 9 , the mine warfare training, Crotty received orders diseased, starving and exhausted American from the commander of the Navy’s Asiatic and Filipino troops besieged on adjacent Fleet, Admiral Thomas Hart, to sail for the Bataan Peninsula could hold-out no longer Philippines and join a navy mine recovery unit and surrendered to the enemy. By mid-April, at the fleet’s homeport in Manila. On Tuesday, Crotty transferred from Quail to Fort Mills, September 2, Crotty concluded a visit to Corregidor, and for the rest of the month, he Buffalo and saw his family for the last time. The served as adjutant to the headquarters staff of the thirty-year-old officer thought his deployment Sixteenth Naval District. would last six months, but he would never see Jimmy also served as a member of the Marine the States again. Corp’s Fourth Regiment, First Battalion, which defended the narrow strip of the island stretching from Malinta Hill to the eastern point of Corregidor Island. Of the four battalions defending Corregidor, only the First Battalion would see action against the enemy, which landed on Tuesday, May 5. Eyewitness accounts indicate that Crotty supervised the crew operating a 75mm field howitzer dug-in on top of Malinta Hill, the small rocky mountain that held the island’s underground command center. Crotty’s field piece faced east, toward the USS Quail (AM-15), U S Navy Photo oncoming Japanese troops and he served up until In the days leading up to the attack on Pearl American forces surrendered in the afternoon of th Harbor, he served with the U.S. Navy as Wednesday, May 6 Executive Officer onboard USS Quail, part th Following the fall of Corregidor, Crotty became of the 16 Naval District-in-Shore Patrol the first Coast Guard prisoner of war since Headquarters, Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines. He aided in the defense of Corregidor during Crotty Continued on page 3 the Japanese invasion in the early days of WWII, supervising the destruction of ammunition and facilities at the Navy Yard and scuttling the fleet submarine USS Sea Lion to prevent its use by the Japanese. As the Japanese advanced on Corregidor, LT Crotty eagerly took charge of cannibalized deck guns from the Quail. Damaged by enemy bombs and guns the ship was scuttled 5 May 1942 by Crotty (the day before Corregidor capitulation) who then led a team of 500 brave enlisted Marines and Army personnel fighting for an additional Cabanatuan Prison’s Camp #1, U S Army Photo Page 2 Coast Guard Retiree Council Northwest Newsletter PACIFIC CURRENTS Visit our Web site at https://www.cgretirenw.org WINTER 2019 Crotty Continued from page 2 LT Crotty is the only known Coast Guardsman to serve in the War of 1812, when the British defense of the Philippines; his captured U.S. Revenue Cutter service authorizes the Coast Service vessels and their crews. Guard to display the Philippine The Japanese loaded Crotty and Defense Battle Streamer on our his fellow prisoners into watercraft Coast Guard Ensign. He was transferring POWs from Corregidor posthumously awarded the Bronze Island to Manila, where they Star, Purple Heart, and many other boarded railroad cars bound for a decorations. LT Crotty embodied prison camp in northern Luzon. our core values of Honor, Respect, Eyewitnesses indicate that the and most especially Devotion to prisoners stood throughout the Duty. lengthy trip and many of the weak Lt. James Crotty as Peggy Crotty Kelly and her brother, and infirm who entered the boxcars lieutenant junior grade Patrick Crotty, hold a photo of their uncle, aboard a Coast Guard never left them alive. Crotty, Lt. Thomas "Jimmy" Crotty, at Pat's home cutter. He participated however, made it to Cabanatuan in Orchard Park. in Philippine combat (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News) Prison’s Camp #1, and bunked in operations in 1941 and barracks reserved for officers with 1942 as a member of the the rank of lieutenant. U S Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and In January 1945, the Army’s U.S. Army and served Sixth Ranger Battalion liberated in a variety of missions Cabanatuan Prison, an event against an overwhelming glorified in books and movies. enemy force. During the Japanese invasion of the Liberation came too late for Crotty Philippines, Crotty relied however, whose body was buried in on his innate leadership a mass grave alongside thousands skills repeatedly in the of American and Filipino heroes defense of Bataan, and who perished in the insufferable later at Corregidor. (USCG Photo) conditions at Cabanatuan. Jimmy Crotty had lost the battle against an invisible enemy. In July, a diphtheria epidemic swept through Cabanatuan and, by mid-month, Crotty contracted the illness. Eyewitness accounts indicate that with the camp’s lack of A plaque proper medication and health care, he passed honoring Lt. away on Saturday, July 19, only three days after Thomas "Jimmy" getting sick. A POW burial party interred him Crotty can be in a mass grave outside the prison walls.. After found at the World War II, the U.S. government moved Buffalo & Erie County Naval remains from the common graves to the Manila and Military American Cemetery and Memorial in the Park. (Mark Republic of the Philippines. On 10 September Mulville/News 2019, as part of an exhaustive effort by DoD to file photo) bring every service member home, LT Crotty was positively identified from the remains exhumed from the cemetery in early 2018. Crotty Continued on page 4 Coast Guard Retiree Council Northwest Newsletter PACIFIC CURRENTS Page 3 WINTER 2019 Visit our Web site at https://www.cgretirenw.org CGC Crotty Continued from page 3 NEW COAST GUARD CUTTER AND CREW CALL CAPE MAY HOME LT Brian Field, Commanding Officer of USCGC Angela McShan Jimmy Crotty's marker at Arlington National Cemetery. While Jimmy has a marker at Arlington that went up in 2017 his body is interred in Buffalo, New York. in November 2019. USCGC Angela McShan and MCPO McShan USCG Photo A Coast Guard hero, YNCM Angela M. McShan, is the namesake of the newest Coast Guard cutter which was commissioned Oct. 26, 2019, in Cape May, New Jersey. Cape May will be the home port of the Coast Guard’s 35th 154-foot Fast Response Cutter (FRC), appropriately named for the legacy that Angela left behind for her shipmates, the service, and the country.
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