USS Callaway

USS Callaway was a Bayfield class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. As the invasion force for the Lingayen assault sailed north, desperate Japanese kamikaze attacks were launched in a determined effort to break up the landings, and on January 8, 1945, a suicide plane broke through heavy antiaircraft fire to crash on the starboard wing of Callaway’s bridge. Cool and skillful work against resulting fires kept material damage to a minimum, but 29 of Callaway ‘s crew were killed and 22 wounded. Despite this loss, the attack transport carried out her mission the next day with her usual competence. Temporary repairs put her back in action by early February, when she carried Marine reinforcements from Guam to Iwo Jima, and wounded from that battle scarred island back to Guam. For the next 3 months, Callaway transported men and equipment between the bases and operating areas of the western Pacific, then embarked Japanese prisoners of war at Pearl Harbor, whom she carried to San Francisco, arriving June 16, 1945.

Name Rating Duty Station Date
Maxwell, A. A. SM3 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Centofani, E. J. S2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Pettit, G. E. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Williams, G. W. BM2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Pimm, H. G. Jr SM2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Bermuda, J. W. SM2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Nemeth, J. J. EM3 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Martin, R. E. S2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Hoyt, R. G. SM3 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Fritch, R. A. S2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Wardlaw, R. E. Jr. F1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
King, S. W. cox USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Owens, T. E. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Ritter, W. W. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Marshall, W. J. Jr. SM2 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Tafalla, A. T. CST USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Blaney, A. Cox USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Jarosz, R. J. MoMM3 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Moore, B. R. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Davis, C. G. BM1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Kehn, C. R. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
Hughes, C. J. S1 USS Callaway 1/8/1945
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