1937 PICTURE OF THE USCGC TANEY

    PLANK OWNERS 1ST CREW OF USCGC TANEY
Photo provided by Helen Hartman July 2001 in memory of Warren Hartman 

Harry Nelson, (USS TANEY) and Capt. Koitschka,  commander of German Submarine U-616 and  wife and son at Honolulu TANEY reunion. 
The U-616 engaged the TANEY 20-22 April 1944 in the Mediterranean.  The book "The Death of the U-Boats" lists his U-boat distroyed 14-17 May 1944
off coast of Oran, North Africa.  The following ships were the cause of its sinking: Neilds DD616, Gleaves DD423, Dllyson DD454, Hilar P. Jones DD427, Macomb DD458, Hambleton DD455, and the Rodman DD456. One of the above destroyers had located him and brought him to their reunion in Honolulu. visit:    http://www.armory.com/~vern/personal/theway/  for additional story. .
 
 

Capt. Koitschka (center with white hat) CO U-616. German sub scuttled after surface fight with US Destroyers. 55 members
of the crew were picked up by the US Destroyers. Picture provided by Klaus Zaepfel, who's late
father Franz Zaepfel served aboard the sub.

Capt. Koitschka  U-616 http://www.classicwest.com/homesig.html

http://uboat.net/boats/u616.htm
 
 

This painting of the Taney at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by acclaimed artist Keith Ferris
http://www.mardigrasfun.com/bsp/200th/taney/taney.htm

Photo by Russell Green aboard the CG-manned USS Menges (DE-320) 
[see  R. Green, chapter 3 Bells]
Please note: Art Green and Russell Green names are the same, info from different sources

Photo copy provided by The Coast Guard Historian's office:   Note the size of the explosian compaired to the two ships in the forground.
The TANEY's Photographer took simular pictures. This picture was published in Time May 22 1944 and in "The History of the TANEY by the late
LtJG Whetstine USCGR.
Caption from TIME
"This is what men risk who go to sea. Even in the Allied-controlled Mediterranean. Off the coast of North Africa a German bomber has bat-winged in by night, made a direct hit on Allied freighter. Left and right are the silhouettes of other ships picked out by a pillar of flame, fed by explosives, which rise hundreds of  feet into the sky. "
Caption from History of TANEY
"Destruction of the SS Paul Hamilton 20 April 1944. Photo by Art Green, USCG combat Photographer stationed aboard the USS Menges (DE 320)"

http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/HAMILTON-001.htm

 
 
 

Photo by Vern Toler: Sick Bay USCGC TANEY I think this is the patient we  took from the SS Paul Hamilton for an appendectomy operation.
We returned him to his ship a couple days before it was hit. Several days earlier, Dr Dowdy brought an man from the ship to the TANEY to perform an appendectomy. After he recovered, the man was returned to the Hamilton.  The ship had a large contingent of Army Airmen. 
547 men were lost with this ship. s/Vern

View looking aft from the foremast, showing the ship's wrecked after section.  She was struck by an acoustic homing torpedo from the
German Submarine U-371 while operating in the Western Mediterranean, 3 May 1944.
Taken by Coast Guard photographer Green, while she was under tow, en route to be repaired.  The Menges had a Coast Guard crew.
Original rint has Photo # USCG 4622. From the U.S. NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER.  
 

"Coast Guard Seaman 1/c Joseph Seppi died while manning a 40mm gun director aboard the USS Menges in 1944,
which was torpedoed by a Nazi sub in the Mediterranean."
PhoM1c. Arthur Green. 26-G-2330 

 
 
"Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted
a Nazi U-boat's hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy. Sinking of U-175. Photo by WO Jack January, April 17, 1943."
(Stern of Taney was configured similarly)

 
      

 

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