"'DOOMED' COAST GUARD-MANNED DE BACK IN ACTION AFTER 'SURGICAL MIRACLE' MAKES ONE SHIP FROM TWO: BEFORE -- The Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS MENGES, thought doomed after being torpedoed in May, 1944, is back in action again today as a result of a 'miracle surgical operation' which took two torpedoed DE's and made them into one healthy, fighting ship. Shown here from the mast, looking aft, in Mediterranean convoy two weeks before falling victim to a German sub, the MENGES, lost a third of her hull when the underwater missile ripped into her stern. The Coast guard skipper refused to abandon ship. After transferring dead and wounded the stricken vessel was towed to North Africa and then to New York. There, the Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the plan of making one whole ship out of two disabled ones, and American shipyard workers did the job. Half of the USS HOLDER, another torpedoed DE in dock for repairs, and the floating portion of the MENGES were joined. Today, two men o' war fight as one."; no date; CG Photo No. 4624; photographer unknown. - Castlemaine-Boy's Photos- powered by SmugMug

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Castlemaine-Boy > Japanese destroyer as seen from the periscope of the USS Wahoo.

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Castlemaine-Boy > "OIL-COATED SEAMAN RESCUED BY COAST GUARD: One of many rescued by Coast Guardsmen of two Destroyer Escorts during a German bomber attack off the coast of North Africa, a U.S. Navy seaman relaxes as two Coast Guardsmen scrape a thick coating of oil from his body. The survivor's ship, the USS LANSDALE, was sunk by Nazi planes (April 20, 1944 in the Mediterranean). The Coast Guardsmen in this picture are: Virgil Mathis (left), Motor Machinist's Mate, of St. Augustine, Fla.; and Melvin Howard of Pittsburg, Kansas. These men are on board the Coast Guard-manned Destroyer MENGES (DE-320), when it picked up 119 survivors of the ill-fated destroyer LANSDALE. Virgil Mathis later was himself a survivor when the MENGES was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine on May 3, 1944."; 20 April 1944; CG Photo No. 2140; photo by PhoM 1/c Arthur Green, USCGR.

Castlemaine-Boy > "'DOOMED' COAST GUARD-MANNED DE BACK IN ACTION AFTER 'SURGICAL MIRACLE' MAKES ONE SHIP FROM TWO: THE PRICE ONE PAYS -- Dead and wounded sprawled on the torn and twisted decks of the Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS MENGES, after she fell victim to a German sub's torpedo in the Mediterranean last May. Like this fallen Coast Guardsman who lies dead where he fell under the vessel's steaming torpedoes, the ship appeared doomed. Today, however, the MENGES is back in action after a 'miracle of ship's surgery' which joined the floating portion of the Coast Guard-manned ship with part of the USS HOLDER, another torpedoed DE, to make a healthy, fighting ship once again seeking out the enemy. The Coast Guard skipper refused to abandon his stricken vessel. She was towed to North Africa and then to New York, where, coincidentally, the HOLDER was awaiting repairs. The ingenious Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the 'one for two' plan and the talent of American shipyard workers made the scheme a reality."; no date listed (May, 1944?); CG Photo No. 4627; photo by PhoM 1/c Arthur Green, USCGR.

Castlemaine-Boy > "'DOOMED' COAST GUARD-MANNED DE BACK IN ACTION AFTER 'SURGICAL MIRACLE' MAKES ONE SHIP FROM TWO: BEFORE -- The Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS MENGES, thought doomed after being torpedoed in May, 1944, is back in action again today as a result of a 'miracle surgical operation' which took two torpedoed DE's and made them into one healthy, fighting ship. Shown here from the mast, looking aft, in Mediterranean convoy two weeks before falling victim to a German sub, the MENGES, lost a third of her hull when the underwater missile ripped into her stern. The Coast guard skipper refused to abandon ship. After transferring dead and wounded the stricken vessel was towed to North Africa and then to New York. There, the Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the plan of making one whole ship out of two disabled ones, and American shipyard workers did the job. Half of the USS HOLDER, another torpedoed DE in dock for repairs, and the floating portion of the MENGES were joined. Today, two men o' war fight as one."; no date; CG Photo No. 4624; photographer unknown.

Castlemaine-Boy > The Holder's stern is transplanted to the Menges.

"'DOOMED' COAST GUARD-MANNED DE BACK IN ACTION AFTER 'SURGICAL MIRACLE' MAKES ONE SHIP FROM TWO: BEFORE -- The Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS MENGES, thought doomed after being torpedoed in May, 1944, is back in action again today as a result of a 'miracle surgical operation' which took two torpedoed DE's and made them into one healthy, fighting ship. Shown here from the mast, looking aft, in Mediterranean convoy two weeks before falling victim to a German sub, the MENGES, lost a third of her hull when the underwater missile ripped into her stern. The Coast guard skipper refused to abandon ship. After transferring dead and wounded the stricken vessel was towed to North Africa and then to New York. There, the Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the plan of making one whole ship out of two disabled ones, and American shipyard workers did the job. Half of the USS HOLDER, another torpedoed DE in dock for repairs, and the floating portion of the MENGES were joined. Today, two men o' war fight as one."; no date; CG Photo No. 4624; photographer unknown.