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USS Menominee

Atf73_b.jpg (44909 bytes) USS Menominee ATF 73 September 30, 1942 (Submitted anonymously)
atf73_A.jpg (68645 bytes) USS Menominee ATF 73 Japanese Destroyer salvage August, 1943 (Submitted anonymously)
USS Menominee ATF 73 (Circa September 1942) (Submitted Ed Loebs)
USS Menominee ATF 73 photo taken while fighting fire caused by Japanese "Kaiten" suicide sub that had rammed into and exploded in the USS Mississinewa AO 59 at Ulithi Atoll November 1944 (Submitted Sid Harris via Ed Loebs)
USS Menominee ATF 73  As Ed Loebs watched a Japanese torpedo plane came in low from the hills towards the beach. As it got over the water it turned and flew parallel with the shoreline. It went past us and dropped it's torpedo which went right into the USS Honolulu. His ship the USS Menominee went over to help save her. In this photo you can see the ATF 73 Menominee alongside her and on the otherside (you can barely make her out) is the ATF Potawatomi.  (US Navy Photo Contributed via by Ed Loebs)
USS Menominee ATF 73 Of historical interest, this is the newspaper article about the USS Honolulu and the role the Menominee and Potawatomi played in helping save her. (Contributed by Ed Loebs)

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