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USS ''Crowley'' (DE-303) was an of the United States Navy during World War II. She was sent off into the Pacific Ocean to protect convoys and other ships from Japanese submarines and fighter aircraft. She performed escort and antisubmarine operations in dangerous battle areas and returned home with a respectable five battle star record. ''Crowley'' was named for Lieutenant Commander Thomas Ewing Crowley, who was killed in action on the USS ''Arizona'' during the attack on Pearl Harbor She was launched on 22 September 1943 by Mare Island Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. T. E. Crowley, widow of Lieutenant Commander Crowley; commissioned on 25 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander T. J. Skewes, Jr., USNR, in command; and reported to the Pacific Fleet. == World War II Pacific Theater operations == Departing San Francisco, California, on 25 May 1944, ''Crowley'' arrived at Pearl Harbor on 31 May and joined in anti-submarine training exercises in Hawaii until 12 August. Escorting a convoy, she arrived at Guadalcanal on 25 August, and with another convoy reached Manus on 14 September. Between 15 September and 18 November 1944, ''Crowley'' sailed out of Manus escorting shipping to the Palau Islands during the invasion and consolidation, with occasional voyages to Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, and the Solomons. On 26 September she joined in giving assistance to the merchant ship rescuing her survivors and bringing her fires under control to save her war cargo. ''Crowley'' based at Ulithi from 21 November 1944, joining a logistics group supporting the fast carrier task forces. Until 1 February 1945 she escorted oilers to the ocean rendezvous at which they replenished the carrier forces striking Luzon, Formosa, and the China coast, then operated with the oilers in the assault on Iwo Jima until 22 March. Departing Ulithi on 22 March, ''Crowley'' arrived at Guam on 9 April and continued escorting oilers during the Okinawa operations until 18 June. From 3 July to the end of hostilities ''Crowley'' supported the 3rd and the 5th Fleet raids on the Japanese home islands. On similar logistics duty for the occupation forces, ''Crowley'' arrived at Sagami Wan, Honshū, on 9 September. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Crowley (DE-303)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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