Franklin (CV 13) - Naval Cruise Book

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lllt'ltlS0lXtt5 by their work in eontpiering the dannaging tires. lfitity-tiour men were dead. three more would not lixe through the night: sixty wounded tiltt-tt the dressing stations. The ttight deek had ai thirty-loot holeg the alter elexntor was warped by the force ol' the explosion, Large areas ol' the seeond and third decks were eoxered with water two or more feel deep. trapping l.t. lfomdr. Greene and his hun- dreds ol' engineers for more than lixe hours. The third and fourth decks aniidships were twisted and broken: steel plates were buckled and torn: stout doors and bulkheads were crumpled. Ylxlll' entire ship, spotlessly clean that morning. was covered with a thick tilm of black soot. Xlen worked all night pumping water out of flooded spaces. salvaging equip- ment. making liig lien habitable again. After many hours of etliort, with the ship on an ex en keel again. the task group joined the tanker lleet on Uctober 31st and refueled. The next day. with 13 Hellcats, 15 Helldivers and 41- Aven- gers aboard and still operational, Frunlflirz and the Belleau lliiood. escorted by destroyers. retired to Utithi for repairs that would tit them for further operations. Admiral Davison transferred his llag to the Ifnlerprise. When Big Ben steamed slowly into the choppy waters of Litithi Harbor. where hundreds of warships lay at anchor, to drop her hook a few hundred yards from the hospital ship Solace, the crew of a Fighting comrade. the USS Wasp, manned the rail and gave three cheers, the highest com- pliment that one man-o'-war can pay another. The carrier Nassau sent the following despatch: Deein it an honor to be anchored in the same harbor 1' I w,g4c3 X, V 1 t 4 Fighting flames on flight deck with Franlzlin. Congratulations on cone swell job., All our best wishes for the future? From Admiral Nimitz to the US. Pacific Fleet: 'alt can be announced with assurance that the Japanese Navy has been beaten, routed, and broken by the Third and Seventh Fleetsf' Men lifted off their sooty helmets, washed their grimy, blackened facesg spoke sadly but proudly of comrades who had died at their battle stations. U l lfmuf.s mar on l'lfllHlfZI'fl,:S fllflfk . . . l orlun11l1'ly l2llllI,l'S, llmuglz gasseal, were not rzrrned

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