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USS Edsall (DD-219), was a Clemson-class destroyer, the first of two United States Navy ships named after Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899). She was sunk by a combined Japanese air and sea attack, approximately 200 miles (320 km) east of Christmas Island on 1 March 1942.
USS Stewart (DE-238) – the sole surviving example of the Edsall-class; a museum ship in Galveston, Texas. USS Kretchmer (DE-329) received a Navy Unit Commendation for action three days after the war ended. USS Stanton (DE-247) won two battle stars in a single engagement sinking two U-boats with the USS Frost (DE-144).
Although some of her survivors were picked up by the Japanese, not a single man from Edsall would survive the war. USS Stewart (DD-224) was en route to Bali on 19 February 1942, leading a column of Allied ships when they were engaged by Japanese destroyers in the Battle of Badung Strait causing extensive damage. The ship made it to a floating ...
USS EDSALL (DD-219), 1920-42. - Naval History and Heritage Command. The old US destroyer – Edsall was commissioned in 1920 – and its 4-inch guns would prove to be no match for the newer ...
The USS Edsall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to evade attacks. U.S. destroyer sunk during WWII found at bottom of ocean ...
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More than 200 American servicemen perished when the USS Edsall was brought down by Japanese forces on March 1, 1942. The Royal Australian Navy discovered the vessel last year some 200 miles east ...
Born in Columbus, Kentucky, Edsall enlisted in the U.S. Navy 27 June 1898.While serving on the protected cruiser USS Philadelphia, Seaman Edsall went ashore with a landing party on 1 April 1899 to suppress hostile natives near Vailele, Samoa.