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USS TULAGI (CVE-72)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Whiskey - Romeo

(Ex- FORTALEZA BAY)
CLASS - CASABLANCA
Displacement 7,800 Tons, Dimensions, 512' 3" (oa) x 65' 2" x 22' 4" (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/38AA 8 x 40mm, 12 x 20mm, 27 Aircraft.
Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 Skinner, Uniflow engines, 2 screws
Speed, 19 Knots, Crew 860.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
Construction
NS0307204	12k	*Tulagi* was sponsored by Mrs. James Duke Barner, wife of the commanding officer of the Astoria Naval Station. (From "Bo's'n's Whistle," Vol. 3, No. 22; November 25, 1943; page 7.)	Courtesy of Ron Gough, Bea Dee, Ltd., Kaiser Vancouver / Swan Island & Oregon Shipyards website
World War II
NS0307201	74k	Good overhead, showing starboard side AA armament. Painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 4A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.)	USN
NS0307202	67k	Underway, aircraft on deck.	USN
NS0307208	103k	USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72) enroute from New York to Casablanca with a deck cargo of U.S. Army P-38s and P-47s. This photo is dated 31 May 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-364576).	Courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
NS0307207	120k	USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72) enroute from New York to Casablanca with a deck cargo of U.S. Army P-38s and P-47s, 2 June 1944. USS Marsh (DE-699) is alongside. Photographed from USS Mission Bay (CVE-59). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-364378).	Naval History & Heritage Command, via Robert Hurst
NS0307205	223k	S Division, USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72). Grand Harbour, Valletta, Island of Malta, August 5, 1944.	Mark Hauth
NS0307203	131k	Grumman F6F Hellcats aboard USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72) en-route to Operation Dragoon, August 1944. USS Kasaan Bay (CVE-69) is behind her, and a British-manned escort carrier leaves the convoy (left) presumably to operate aircraft for CAP.	Robert Hurst
NS0307209	271k	Steward's Mate Second Class Miles Davis King carries a loaded magazine for a 20mm machine gun, as USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72) steams through the Mediterranean Sea en route to the invasion of Southern France. Photographed a few days prior to 15 August 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-417623).	Courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
NS0307206	174k	An F6F-5 Hellcat of VOF-1 takes a waveoff from LSO during a landing attempt aboard USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72), following an air-support mission over Southern France on D-Day for Operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944. USN photo, courtesy Russ Egnor. Photo and text from "Carrier Air War In Original WWII Color" by Robert Lawson and Barrett Tillman.	Robert Hurst
NS0307210	166k	Unidentified *Tulagi*'s crew members, sometime in 1945.	Scott Wood, for his father, Thomas B. Wood, RdM3c(T), USS Massachusetts (BB-59), USS North Carolina (BB-55), and USS *Tulagi* (CVE-72) in both the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters

USS TULAGI CVE-72 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact and Reunion Information

Date:
Place:
Contact:	Bill Rochford
Address:	31 Lambourne Rd. Unit 507 — Baltimore, Maryland 21204
Phone:	410 825 0093
E-mail:	usstulagi@netscape.net
Web site:
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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Official U.S. Navy Carrier Website
Escort Carrier Sailors & Airmen Association

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Last update: 27 March 2011