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USS Electra (AKA 4) |
| Don Ravey's summary history of USS Electra. |
| Lloyd Grady's contemporary history of USS Electra in WW II. |
| View the Deck Log for Nov. 15, 1942 when USS Electra was torpedoed off the coast of North Africa! |
| View the remembrances of Ens. John P. Bledsoe for Nov. 15, 1942 and other remarkable events. |
| View the remembrances of Ens. Doug Cook, SC for Nov. 15, 1942 and the days following! |
| View the duty orders assigning Ens. W. D. Cook to USS Electra In February 1942, even before she was commissioned. |
| View the WW II Pacific Theater map showing the track of Electra in the Pacific Islands campaigns, 1944-45. |
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The 1953 mission to Point Barrow, Alaska,
courtesy of Tom Klaus ... and visit the web site of USS Estes (AGC-12), PhibGroup 3 flagship on the Point Barrow mission |
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Here's a copy of the Deck Log of USS Electra for August 15, 1954, as Electra was underway from Seattle to the Pribilof Islands. For a list of the dates for which I have USS Electra Deck Logs, similar to the one linked to this page (see above), Click Here. |
| Electra Notice 3120, the official orders for the Pribilof Islands resupply mission, courtesy of Tom Klaus |
| Plan of the Day for August 9, 1954, the day before the Pribilof Islands resupply mission departure |
| Pribilofs Resupply Mission recollections by Floyd Cramer |
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March 1945 edition of Sun Dial,
the ship's newspaper The third anniversary of Electra's commissioning |
Requires Adobe Reader - if you don't have it, you can download it for free
here. You can print from Adobe Reader. |
| Easter 1945 edition of Sun Dial, the ship's newspaper | |
| Ship's Menu for the Fourth of July, 1954, courtesy of Floyd Cramer | |
Do you remember these?   
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This postmarked envelope is in the collection of Ortwin Trapp in Germany,
reproduced here with his kind permission: |
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Take a look at these mementos:
