USN · CVE
Sangamon
Photos and infoEscort carrier CVE-26. Thomas L. Sprague flew his flag in her with Taffy 1 on 25 October 1944. He was not her captain. She was south of the Taffy 3 gunfight and sent aircraft to help. She was not in that gun line and she was not sunk.
| Type | Escort carrier (CVE) |
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| Hull | CVE-26 |
| Commissioned | 1940-10-23 |
| Fate | Afloat. Commissioned as the oiler AO-28 on 23 October 1940. Converted to an escort carrier in 1942. At Leyte she was in Taffy 1, off northern Mindanao, about 120 miles south of the Samar gunfight. A kamikaze hit her flight deck off Okinawa on 4 May 1945. Eleven men were killed, twenty-five were missing, and twenty-one were seriously wounded. Not sunk. Decommissioned 24 October 1945. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
U.S. Navy photograph of the escort carrier Sangamon (CVE-26) underway. Wikimedia Commons File:Uss sangamon CVE-26.jpg. Public domain.
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Command
Battle off Samar
1944-10-25 · Taffy 1, off northern Mindanao, about 120 miles south of the gunfight. Sent aircraft to help. Not sunk.
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · A kamikaze hit her flight deck on 4 May 1945. Eleven killed, twenty-five missing, twenty-one seriously wounded. Not sunk.
