DESA has posted on their web site  the 2 excerpts from the "Tales of the USS Conklin DE 439"  that they have recently printed in their newspaper.

These are links to various related sites I have found while researching this project:

A complete listing of destroyers and destroyer escorts in WWII. and links to their websites:
Destroyers Online

Destroyers Online: Escorts

DESA Article: http://desausa.org/uss_conklin_history.htm 

World War II Stories

 For more information on Kaitens:
(about the sinking of the
Underhill by Kaitens, and Commander Oba of the I-53.)

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Note from Eileen: Joy Sexton found this fabulous Ulithi site. There is a great picture of a DE dropping depth charges after the USS Mississnewa explosion, - looking for Kaitens.  There is a lot of great Ulithi and MogMog stuff there. The owner of the web site is a grad student who wants to know about Ulithi and he seems to have a positive viewpoint.

Ulithi Website
http://www.shsu.edu/~stdbma11/ulithi/

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A photograph of the I-53 
Brought back to Hikari by Captain Oba, the I-53 was scuttled by the Navy 4/1/46.

 A photo of a Japanese sub,
 retrieved by the Navy. Note the bowed hull. I do not know the identity of this sub, or the date. Taken from the USS Rocky Mount site.

 The DE Johnny Hutchinson 
was about to be rammed by a Kaiten when the sailors rolled a depth charge off the side of the sub, which exploded and lifted the Kaiten into the air. They then shot it with their rear 5 inch #8 gun.

Captain Doscher

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