"CDR Cole USN rehabilitated?" Topic
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| LT Sparker | 20 Aug 2019 4:46 p.m. PST |
Dear All, Just finished the excellent Naval Institute's The Battle of Tassafaronga, by Crenshaw, who was present. His account and analysis backs up that CDR Cole; who was overruled in his request to launch torpedoes at short range on a direct bearing by his Admiral, and subsequently criticised by Nimitz for not engaging at that point, should have been exonerated.
Obviously there is now a USS Cole – was this by way of amends? And was CDR Cole exonerated in his lifetime? |
| LtJBSz | 20 Aug 2019 5:13 p.m. PST |
USS Cole is named for a Marine sgt who won the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima. |
| LT Sparker | 20 Aug 2019 9:29 p.m. PST |
OK thanks mate – so much for that theory! |
| Blutarski | 21 Aug 2019 5:51 p.m. PST |
Hi LT Sparker,
My father was aboard USS Lardner (DD487) at Tassafaronga. Crenshaw is a terrific source on the Solomons naval campaign. Allow me to recommend another Crenshaw book in the event you have perhaps not already run across it - "South Pacific Destroyer – The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf"
By Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr.
Naval Institute Press; 1998 link B |
| LT Sparker | 21 Aug 2019 8:36 p.m. PST |
Thanks mate – yes its on the list – I really enjoyed his Tassafaronga book! |
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