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DESTROYER ARCHIVE |
23 of her crew were lost and remain on duty.
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91k | Norman Scott, born 10 August 1889 in Indianapolis, Ind., was appointed midshipman 17 June 1907, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1911. In December 1917, the future Rear Admiral Norman Scott was the Executive Officer of USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) when she was sunk by a German submarine and was commended for his performance at that time. He received his first command, a group of eagle boats, in 1919. During peacetime, he commanded Paul Jones and Pensacola. Commissioned Rear Admiral 16 June 1942, he commanded a strike force in the Guadalcanal campaign. On the night of 12/13 November 1942, he led his force against a numerically superior Japanese force in a desperate struggle to prevent the Japanese from turning back our first offensive action in the Pacific. He was killed aboard his flagship, USS Atlanta (CL-51), during the action, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his intrepid leadership. Photo #: NH 102454. Rear Admiral Norman Scott, USN, Halftone reproduction of a 1942 photograph, published in "Medal of Honor, 1861-1945, The Navy", page 257. Rear Admiral Scott was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity" during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Wayne VanDerVoort/Bill Gonyo | |
| 78k | Artist's conception of the Scott by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource. | Navy Yard Associates | |
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255k | Undated postcard, location unknown. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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41k | Undated, location unknown. | Norman Monfort | |
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71k | 1943 at Bath Iron Works. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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55k | the Scott at Bath, Maine at her launching in August 28, 1943. | Norman Monfort | |
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70k | Seymour Owens the Captain of the Norman Scott giving a speech at the commissioning of the Scott at the Boston Navy Yard on November 5, 1943. He was killed in action at Tinian 8 1/2 months later. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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165k | Operating with USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), February 1944. | Norman Monfort | |
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143k | June 1944 supporting the invasion of Saipan, National Archives photo 80-G-244406. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 13d. | Norman Monfort | |
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27k | USS Norman Scott refueling from the AO-71 Neshanic off Saipan in June 1944. | Norman Monfort | |
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125k | USS Norman Scott Plan of the Day off Saipan, June 14 1944. | Mark Rogers | |
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65k | USS USS Norman Scott (DD-690), off Saipan, 15 June 1944. Photo taken from "United States Destroyer Operations in World War II" by Theodore Roscoe. Photo Identified by Wayne VanDerVoort. | Robert Hurst | |
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201k | Deck Log from the Saipan Invasion, June 15 1944. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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132k | USS Norman Scott Plan of the Day off Saipan, June 15 1944. | Mark Rogers | |
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126k | Painting of the USS Norman Scott on the morning of the Saipan invasion by Wayne Scarpaci of Art by Wayne. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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65k | Painting of the USS Norman Scott at Tinian just before she was hit. The Norman Scott was moving in to draw fire away from the USS Colorado. The USS Colorado is in the foreground. Painting by Wayne Scarpaci of Art by Wayne. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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146k | Paintiong of the USS Cleveland (CL-55) screening the Scott at Tinian on July 24 1944 after she had been hit. Wayne donated the painting to the Naval Park in Buffalo on July 28 2011. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
  | 105k 110k | Condolence messages to the USS Norman Scott following casualties off Tinian, July 24 1944. | Mark Rogers | |
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86k | Damage from 6" coastal guns on Tinian, 24 July 1944. | Norman Monfort | |
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85k | Another view of the damage. | Norman Monfort | |
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149k | Another view of the damage. | Norman Monfort | |
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62k | view of shrapnel damage when the Scott was hit at Tinian. The Captain, Seymour Owens, was killed above this section on the wing of the bridge. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
   
| 278k 115k 135k 79k | Deck Log from the July 24 1944 assault on Tinian. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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158k | Official USN photo #5270-44. USS Norman Scott (DD-690) at Mare Island showing some of the damage, August 1944. | David Buell | |
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144k | After repairs at Mare Island, circa 1944. | Norman Monfort | |
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148k | Newspaper article of November 8, 1944 about repairs being done at Mare Island in August 1944. | Norman Monfort | |
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149k | Navy Photo 5290-44, workman board USS Norman Scott (DD 690) at Mare Island on 19 Aug 1944 to start repair of battle damage. | Darryl Baker | |
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107k | Aft plan view of USS Norman Scott (DD 690) at Mare Island on 14 Oct 1944 near the completion of her overhaul. She was in overhaul at the yard from 17 Aug until 15 Oct 1944. | Darryl Baker | |
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103k | Forward plan view of USS Norman Scott (DD 690) at Mare Island on 14 Oct 1944 near the completion of her overhaul. She was in overhaul at the yard from 17 Aug until 15 Oct 1944. | Darryl Baker | |
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80k | Mare Island, October 16 1944. | Don Muse | |
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64k | As above. | Don Muse | |
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68k | As above. | Don Muse | |
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106k | October 16 1944 at Mare Island. | Ed Zajkowski | |
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117k | As above. | Ed Zajkowski | |
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139k | As above. | Ed Zajkowski | |
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145k | USS Norman Scott (DD-690) coming alongside USS Shangri-La (CV-38) for refueling, while enroute from Okinawa to San Pedro, California in October 1945. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 73367. | Norman Monfort/Robert Hurst | |
| 98k | Refueling from the USS Chicopee (AO-34) with the USS Intrepid (CV-11) opposite on April 10 1945. | Pieter Bakels | |
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123k | News dispatch from Admiral Nimitz describing the first naval bombardment of the Japanese homeland on July 15, 1945. The six ships were the battleships USS Missouri, USS Wisconsin, USS Iowa and the destroyers USS McGowan, USS Norman Scott and the USS Remey. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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358k | August 15 1945 issue of the ship's newspaper, VJ Day. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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50k | Herby, the Scott's pet money who sailed with the ship during the War. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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83k | The Scott's Logo and Tally Board from World War II. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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106k | Ship produced cachet postal cover in memory of the events of September 2, 1945. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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324k | Newspaper article from Tacoma, WA of October 27, 1945. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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227k | Newspaper article from Tacoma, WA of October 27, 1945. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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141k | Tacoma, Washington Navy Day October 27, 1945. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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61k | Another view of the Japanese shore battery. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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96k | 2002 views of the Japanese guns that fired on the Norman Scott in July 1944. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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68k | At Mare Island in May 1972. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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208k | Two poems that Will C. Jumper wrote, he was a Lieutenant aboard the USS Norman Scott DD690 during WWII. After the war he became a professor of Literature at the University of Iowa and wrote a book of poems called From Time Remembered. In that book he wrote a number of poems about the crew that died on July 24 1944. Will passed away in 1990. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
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130k | Ships patch. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
CDR Seymour Dunlop Owens Nov 5 1943 - Jul 24 1944 (KIA) CDR William Baxter Porter Jul 24 1944 - Sep 16 1945 LCDR William Jones Hughes Jr. Sep 16 1945 - Apr 30 1946
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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