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From: RobRielly@aol.com
Mr. Dyrek, I have enjoyed looking over your P-47 website and hope that
you will be able to help me. I am a historian currently researching
the radar picket ships during the battle for Okinawa from April through
August 1945. The Navy set up a ring of 16 stations surrounding
the island in order to give
warning of raids headed for the landing site. These ships took
heavy losses and casualties, soon becoming targets of the kamikazes.
Assigned to fly a protective CAP over the ships were
Marine Corsair F4U
fighters from Yontan and Kadena fields on Okinawa. On many occasions, they were
also covered by Wildcats and
Hellcats off the
aircraft carriers. In my research
I found evidence in a destroyer action report that 4
P-47 Thunderbolts flew
CAP over the ships on one of the Radar Picket Stations on June 6.
This was a highly unusual entry as the P-47s on Ie Shima were there for
long range flights to Japan and China, picket protection was usually a Navy-Marine assignment. Since I want
to credit the flyers who flew over the ships in my book, I am now looking
further to see if I can turn up anyone who might have first hand knowledge
of Radar Picket Patrol. Ken Elender says he doesn't have any information
about it and I have contacted the P-47 Association as well. Can you
shed any light on this or can you put me in contact with anyone who can?
Thanks for the help. Rob Rielly
We are looking for information about War
Correspondent Jack Singer for his nephew Jeff Hubbard. Jack Singer was a
War Correspondent for the U.S. Navy and was stationed on the USS WASP when it
was sunk in 1942. We are also looking for information about any members of
the ships company. Please send me information at the bottom of this page if you
have any information.
You can email me or give me a
call (818) 419-1260. Thanks for your help
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