CVE9

SAILORS AND AIRMEN WHO SERVED ABOARD THE USS BOGUE......YOUR�� ATTENTION PLEASE!.........WE ARE THE SHIPMATES OF YOUR REUNION ASSOCIATION..... TRYING TO LOCATE YOU.... ANYONE WHO KNOWS A PERSON WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE CREW OF THE USS BOGUE CVE-9 ~SAILOR OR AIRMAN~.... PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH US FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION... THANK YOU ONE AND ALL... ALLOW US TO ENTER THE NEW MILLENIUM WITH NEW VIGOR TO SURVIVE INTO THE FUTURE

�� CHIEF� "� SKI "� WALTER SCHREIBWEISS

�� THIS YEAR OUR SHIP'S COMPANY AND THEIR LADIES WILL BE CELEBRATING OUR ANNUAL�REUNION�FOR YEAR 2001 IN PIGEON FORGE, TN, HOSTED BY JULIAN & BETTY ALLEN & FAMILY

� Read the Book� "HUNTER-KILLER"�� by William T. Y'Blood

�� Lt. ROY STEINMETZ (Gunnery Officer)

A brief history of US Navy aircraft carriers� that were known by the names ; Baby Flattops ; Jeep Carriers and� also Mighty Midgets did the routine work, patrol work, scouting and escorting� of convoys, that the larger fleetypes could not do. It was often a joke that the CVE stood for combustible , vulnerable� and expendable.. It was the Jeeps and their crews that provided fighter and close� air support for amphibious landings and served as aircraft transports as the tempo of the carrier war mounted. The USS Bogue CVE-9 was the first escort carrier to sink a U-Boat in�� W.W.II. It sank the I-52, the largest Jap sub, that has been found 3 miles down and� was�� purported to have been carrying gold bullion. The USS Bogue sank the last enemy submarine� of the war as well. Its wartime record included Japanese cargo subs and German subs for a�� total of 13 which resulted in the award of a Presidential Citation. The first operable�� unit proved to be the USS Bogue CVE-9, joining the fleet in March of 1943. The idea of a� roving U-Boat killer group composed of an escort carrier equipped with Wildcat fighters and Avengers that could use bombs, depth charges, or torpedoes screened by old destroyers�� and destroyer escorts, was a sound one. Admiral Royal Ingersoll's command to the Captains of all the escort carriers was that they take offensive action against the enemy. It was� time for these unique warships to show what they could do against the wolf-packs that were sinking allied merchant vessels. The Battle of the Atlantic had now begun in earnest!

THE SIGNALMAN WOULD HOIST THE FOX FLAG, AS WE WERE� ABOUT TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY. THE DESTROYER ESCORTS WOULD BE ALERTED THAT OUR SHIP WOULD� BE TURNING INTO THE WIND TO; LAUNCH OUR AIRCRAFT. OUR TASK GROUP WOULD DEPLOY THEIR FORCES AND THE DESTROYER ESCORTS WOULD CONVERGE ON THE U-BOAT AND DROP DEPTH CHARGES. THE� MIGHTY MIDGET� USS BOGUE WOULD NOW BE TRANSFORMED FROM A SHIP OF MANY DUTIES� TO A UNIQUE WARSHIP, CAPABLE OF DAMAGING AND SINKING THE ENEMY'S U-BOATS AND SURFACE� VESSELS. OUR PLANES WERE USED FOR RECONNAISSANCE RANGING MANY MILES IN ORDER TO SIGHT AND� THEN BOMB ANY VISIBLE SUBMARINES THAT MAY HAVE INTRUDED INTO OUR WATERS.