USS White Plains - Survivor of Taffy 3

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In today's video, we'll be looking at the third of the famous escort carriers of Samar. USS White Plains, perhaps best known for something that has since been disproved.
Landing a hit on Chokai that detonated the cruiser's torpedoes. Something that has been proven wrong, due to the discovery of Chokai's wreck. With intact torpedo tubes.
Regardless, White Plains remains an interesting ship. She took a pounding off Samar, including a near-miss from Yamato herself. And beyond that, White Plains had a busy 1944 in general. Mostly on secondary roles, to be sure, but she still put in work.
We'll look at that, in this video.
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@joethegeographer 5 дней назад

My old buddy, Red, from Grand Forks, ND, would be very pleased that you did a video on his ship. He joined the Navy in February 1942 and served aboard the USS White Plains for her entire tour of duty, and his. He was shocked in the 1980s when I was able to identify from memory what his ship had accomplished during the war but I was a history student at the local UND so I had an unfair advantage over the average college punk. He took the time to tell me all of his stories at least once - I was his bartender, it's how I paid for college back then.

@a.muligan4991 4 дня назад

Thanks for listening I'm sure Red appreciate it.

@edwardmurray4703 5 дней назад

I worked for the chamber of commerce in White Plains 80's thru 90's and have the opportunity of visiting city hall which has many of the photos that you have shown. a tough little ship that gave as much as she got.

@Straswa 5 дней назад

Great video Skynea, those CVEs and their crews are unsung heroes. Ferry duty and training isn't glamorous but was vital to the war effort. I love learning more about the escort carriers.

@robwernet9609 5 дней назад

I was thinking the same thing, they did that and were also sent into heavy combat from time to time.

@seanbigay1042 5 дней назад

IIRC, that near-miss from the Yamato so jolted White Plains' engines a=that she bean to make thick smoke on top of that ordered by her captain. The amount of smoke she was emitting convinced the Japanese she was done for, which is why they left her alone for the rest of the battle.

@robmcelwee389 5 дней назад

It would be cool if you did USS Killen. My grandfather served on her and she helped sink the Yamashiro. He told me all kinda tales about her Borneo adventures with Australian species ops.

@robwernet9609 5 дней назад

Man those little escort carriers did everything from combat to performing the heavy lifting jobs. A real swiss army knife...or swiss navy knife i reckon 😂

@CaptainSeato 5 дней назад

On the one hand, I so desperately wish for a movie of this one, single naval action. On the other, I know that Hollywood wouldn't do it justice.

@bgw33 5 дней назад

Thanks for focus on escort carriers.

@robertbenson9797 5 дней назад

Fantastic episode about one of the most heroic battles of WWII by the US Navy. Taffy 3 shows you don’t have to be big to be mighty. All aspects of this battle, from the US Naval Aviators dropping what ever ordnance that had aboard on the Japanese to the US destroyer escorts taking on some of largest remaining Japanese ships, will make you wonder, “Where did we get such brave men?” I would highly recommend reading James D. Hornfischer’s book, “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”. It is riveting in its narrative of the battle.

@bkjeong4302 5 дней назад

An outdated and rather inaccurate book about the battle, as new research in the past decade has revealed.

@jonathanbair523 4 дня назад

Such a little force punching way about it's weight class... But fighting so hard to make the IJN think there is more then what we see... WTG Taffy 3....

@BrockRuby 5 дней назад

Another great vid!! Never knew the full story of USS White Plains. Keep it up!!

@MyRuno 5 дней назад

For self-defence the ship also carried a single dog.

@Normandy1944 5 дней назад

Oh, c'mon.... now you're going to say her bite was worse than her bark. or... the dog had a howlin' good time.

@bostonrailfan2427 5 дней назад

at least it wasn’t a devil dog! 🤣

@jonathanbair523 4 дня назад

It was a keeper of the air craft.... Making sure only friendly landed on her deck or she would be the welcoming comity lead..

@daverobinson6110 4 дня назад

Kept the alpo supply in the fan room no doubt

@bradbechlyb9273 5 дней назад

i grew up, and still live around Vancouver. the old slipways are still around

@JGCR59 5 дней назад

Diving shells were a feature of japanese artillery they had been researching since the firing trials on Tosa in the 1920s. Basically short shots could be induced by a special shape of the ballistic cone to move towards the target underwater and impact below the armor belt. The one event where this definitely happened was at Cape Esperance when such a diving hit by a shell from Kinugasa took out Boise's forward turrets and nearly blew up the magazines. But I guess the underwater explosion beneath White Plains was a diving 46 cm shell as well even if it was sort of an accidental hit

@redtobertshateshandles 4 дня назад

Quite clever idea if you think about it. A skipping shell.

@Absaalookemensch 5 дней назад

Self defense was buy a single 15 lb dog.

@54blewis 3 дня назад

This is a story that’s begging for a cinematic adaptation,it has everything Hollywood loves,big Naval battle,heroic last stands,Brave suicidal attacks,David versus Goliath,Gallantry and sacrifice and a miraculous,victorious ending…the making of a epic motion picture!

@bradgillingham71 5 дней назад

well done

@malcolmgibson6288 4 дня назад

The term Hero is overused, but Taffy 3 was heroic in extreme.

@Moredread25 5 дней назад

Interesting it got decommissioned in Boston. Not where most ships ended up.

@torgover-l1n 5 дней назад

I think it's kind of funny that the battle still gets a "David vs Goliath" tilt to it, when the 16 escort carriers involved from the three Taffys had about the same number of aircraft (around 448 aircraft) that the Japanese fleet fielded in The Battle of the Philippine Sea (around 431 aircraft), which is also the most planes they fielded during a carrier battle. Don't get me wrong, the crews of all of the Taffy 3 ships were very brave and did their duty to the utmost, but it's certainly not as one-sided as so many history books make out.

@bkjeong4302 5 дней назад

Yep this. It’s one of the most misconstrued battles in history, as Parshall pointed out recently in a podcast.

@seanbigay1042 5 дней назад

So what happened to the Chokai? Something definitely went boom aboard her. If not her torpedoes, then what?

@roycedunbar 3 дня назад

My father in law was on the White Plains during the battle.

@Buconoir 5 дней назад

Puppy!

@redtobertshateshandles 4 дня назад

Did Picasso paint that ship. Just looking at it gives me epilepsy. 😂

@HughieHughes-i8t 2 дня назад

Do one on uss kalinin bay cve 68 as it was holed no less than 15 times with large caliber shells 6 in 8 in 14 in and did not sink + two kamikazes my dad was a boilerman 1 class damage control party GQ station