Allied Warship Commanders

Allan Rockwell McCann, USN

Born  20 Sep 1896

Ranks

30 Jun 1937 Cdr.
30 Jun 1942 Capt.
25 Mar 1943 T/R.Adm.

Retired: 1 May 1950


Decorations

Warship Commands listed for Allan Rockwell McCann, USN


ShipRankTypeFromTo
USS Iowa (BB 61)T/R.Adm.Battleship16 Aug 194428 Nov 1944

Career information

USS K-6 on 18 May 1920

20 September 1920 - Detached from USS K-6

USS S-19 (Submarine No. 124).

Assumed Command USS S-19 (Submarine No. 124) 27 September 1920. (prior to its commissioning).

7-12 January 1921 - Detached from S-19, to Command the submarine USS N-4 (SS-56)

4 February 1922 - Detached to additional Duty in Command of USS L-3 (SS-42)

6 April 1922 - Relinquished Command of USS N-4

Events related to this officer

Battleship USS Iowa (BB 61)


30 Aug 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) departed Eniwetok for exercises followed by raids against the Japanese to support future landing operations.

Iowa was part of Task Force 38 which was made up of the following ships;

Task Group 38.1
Aircraft carriers USS Wasp (Capt. O.A. Weller, USN), USS Hornet (Capt. A.K. Doyle, USN), light carriers USS Cowpens (Capt. H.W. Taylor, USN), USS Belleau Wood (Capt. J.A Perry, USN) (detached on 17 September and replaced by USS Monterey (Capt. S.H. Ingersoll, USN), the heavy cruisers USS Wichita (Capt D.A. Spencer, USN), USS Boston (Capt. E.E. Hermann, USN), USS Canberra (Capt. A.R. Early, USN) and the destroyers (DesRon 46 / DesDiv 91) USS Izard (Cdr. M.T. Dayton, USN), USS Charrette (Lt.Cdr. G.P. Joyce, USN), USS Conner (Cdr. W.E. Kaitner, USN), USS Bell (Cdr. J.S.C. Gabbert, USN), USS Burns (Cdr. J.T. Bullen, Jr., USN), (DesRon 46 / DesDiv 92) USS Boyd (Cdr. U.S.G. Sharp, Jr., USN), USS Brown (Cdr. T.H. Copeman, USN), USS Cowell (Cdr. C.W. Parker, USN), (DesRon 12 / DesDiv 23) USS Farenholt (Cdr. K.S. Shook, USN), USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E. Vinock, USN), USS Grayson (Cdr. W.V. Pratt, III, USN).

Task Group 38.2
Aircraft carriers USS Bunker Hill (Capt. M.R. Greer, USN), USS Intrepid (Capt. J.F. Bolger, USN), light carriers USS Cabot (Capt. S.J. Michael, USN), USS Independence (Capt. E.C. Ewen, USN) battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Houston (Capt. W.W. Behrens, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), USS San Diego (Capt. W.E.A. Mulen, USN), USS Oakland (Capt. K.S. Reed, USN) and the destroyers (DesRon 52 / DesDiv 103) USS Owen (Cdr. R.W. Wood, USN), USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS The Sullivans (Lt.Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN), USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), (DesRon 52 / DesDiv 104) USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN) (left for Manus on 15 September), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), (DesRon 53 / DesDiv 105) USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN), USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. W.T. McGarry, USN), USS Benham (Cdr. F.S. Keeler, USN), (DesRon 53 / DesDiv 106) USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN), USS Blue (Cdr. L. Ensey, USN) (left formation on 18 September), USS Stockham (Cdr. E.P. Holmes, USN), USS Wedderburn (Cdr. C.H. Kendall, USN), USS Twining (Cdr. E.K. Wakefield, USN) (joined the formation on 18 September).

Task Group 38.3
Aircraft carriers USS Lexington (Capt. E.W. Litch, USN), USS Essex (Capt. C.W. Wieber, USN), light carriers USS Princeton (Capt. W.H. Buracker, USN), USS Langley (Capt. W.M. Dillon, USN), battleships USS Washington (Capt. T.R. Cooley, USN), USS Indiana (Capt. T.J. Keliher, USN), USS Massachusetts (Capt. W.W. Warlick, USN), USS Alabama (Capt. V.R. Murphy, Jr., USN), light cruisers USS Santa Fé (Capt. J. Wright, USN), USS Birmingham (Capt. T.B. Inglis, USN), USS Mobile (Capt. C.C. Miller, USN), USS Reno (Capt. R.C. Alexander, USN) and the destroyers (DesDiv 100) USS Caperton (Cdr. G.K. Carmichael, USN), USS Ingersoll (Cdr. A.C. Veasey, USN), USS Knapp (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Brown, USN), USS Porterfield (Cdr. D.W. Wulzen, USN) (DesRon 55 / DesDiv 109) USS Callaghan (Cdr. F.J. Johnson, USN), USS Cassin Young (Cdr. E.T. Schreiber, USN), USS Irwin (Cdr. D.B. Miller, USN), USS Preston (Cdr. G.S. Patrick, USN), USS Laws (Cdr. L.O. Wood, USN), (DesRon 55 / DesDiv 110) USS Longshaw (Cdr. R.H. Speck, USN), USS Morrison (Cdr. W.H. Price, USN) and USS Prichett (Cdr. C.T. Caulfield, USN).

Task Group 38.4
Aircraft carriers USS Franklin (Capt. J.M. Shoemaker, USN), USS Enterprise (Capt. C.D. Glover, Jr., USN), light carriers USS Monterey (Capt. S.H. Ingersoll, USN), USS San Jacinto (Capt. H.M. Martin, USN), heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (Capt. J.E. Hurff, USN), light cruiser USS Biloxi (Capt. D.M. McGurl, USN) and the destroyers (DesRon 6 / DesDiv 11) USS Maury (Cdr. J.W. Koenig, USN), USS Craven (Cdr. R.L. Fulton, USN), USS Gridley (Cdr. P.D. Quirk, USN), USS Helm (Cdr. S.K. Santmyers, USN), USS McCall (Lt.Cdr. J.B. Carroll, USN), (DesRon 6 / DesDiv 12) USS Mugford (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), USS Ralph Talbot (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Brown, USNR), USS Bagley (Cdr. W.H. Shea, Jr., USN), USS Patterson (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Hering, USN) (DesDiv 24) USS Wilkes (Lt.Cdr. F.E. McEntire, Jr., USN), USS Nicholson (Cdr. W.W. Vanous, USN) and USS Swanson (Lt.Cdr. W.K. Ratliff, USN).

Task Group 38.5
(This Task Group was dissolved on 11 September 1944, all ships then joined the other four Task Groups)
The ships in this group are already listed with the other Task Groups.

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during these operations see the map below.

6 Sep 1944
Late in the afternoon, USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), topped off one of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Dortch (Cdr. R.C. Young, USN), with fuel.

10 Sep 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled from the USS Guadalupe (Cdr. H.A. Anderson, USN).

16 Sep 1944
In the morning, USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), fuelled from the USS Lackawanna (Cdr. A.J. Homann, USN).

19 Sep 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were topped off by a group of oilers.

23 Sep 1944
In the morning USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled three destroyers attached to the Task Group, USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN) and USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN).

In the evening Iowa herself fuelled from the USS Chikaskia (Lt.Cdr. G. Zimmerman, USNR).

25 Sep 1944
Late in the afternoon, USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), topped off one of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN), with fuel.

27 Sep 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers.

28 Sep 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) anchored off Saipan Island.

29 Sep 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) departed Saipan for Ulithi Atoll.

Iowa made the passage as part of Task Force 34 (Heavy Unit striking unit) which was made up of the following ships;
Battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), USS Washington (Capt. T.R. Cooley, USN), USS Alabama (Capt. V.R. Murphy, Jr., USN), USS Massachusetts (Capt. W.W. Warlick, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Houston (Capt. W.W. Behrens, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN) destroyers USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN), USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. W.T. McGarry, USN), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.G. Hooper, USN), USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN).

1 Oct 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) arrived at Ulithi Atoll.

3 Oct 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) departed Ulithi Atoll to ride out a storm at sea.

4 Oct 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) returned to Ulithi Atoll.

6 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) departed Ulithi for raids against the Japanese to support future landing operations.

Iowa was part of Task Force 38 which was made up of the following ships;

Task Group 38.1
Aircraft carriers USS Wasp (Capt. O.A. Weller, USN), USS Hornet (Capt. A.K. Doyle, USN), light carriers USS Monterey (Capt. S.H. Ingersoll, USN), USS Cowpens (Capt. H.W. Taylor, USN), heavy cruisers USS Wichita (Capt D.A. Spencer, USN), USS Boston (Capt. E.E. Hermann, USN), USS Canberra (Capt. A.R. Early, USN) light cruiser USS Houston (Capt. W.W. Behrens, USN), destroyers USS Izard (Cdr. M.T. Dayton, USN), USS Charrette (Lt.Cdr. G.P. Joyce, USN), USS Conner (Cdr. W.E. Kaitner, USN), USS Bell (Lt.Cdr. J.S.C. Gabbert, USN), USS Burns (Cdr. J.T. Bullen, Jr., USN), USS Cogswell (Cdr. H.T. Deutermann, USN), USS Caperton (Cdr. G.K. Carmichael, USN), USS Ingersoll (Cdr. A.C. Veasey, USN), USS Knapp (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Brown, USN), USS Boyd (Cdr. U.S.G. Sharp, Jr., USN), USS Cowell (Cdr. C.W. Parker, USN), USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E. Vinock, USN), USS Grayson (Cdr. W.V. Pratt, III, USN), USS Brown (Cdr. T.H. Copeman, USN), USS Woodworth (Cdr. C.R. Stephan, USN).

Task Group 38.2
Aircraft carriers USS Intrepid (Capt. J.F. Bolger, USN), USS Hancock (Capt. F.C. Dickey, USN), USS Bunker Hill (Capt. M.R. Greer, USN), light carriers USS Cabot (Capt. S.J. Michael, USN), USS Independence (Capt. E.C. Ewen, USN) battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), USS San Diego (Capt. W.E.A. Mulen, USN), USS Oakland (Capt. K.S. Reed, USN), destroyers USS Owen (Cdr. C.B.Jones, USN), USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN), USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. S.D.B. Merrill, USN), USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.G. Hooper, USN), USS Benham (Cdr. F.S. Keeler, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. E.P. Holmes, USN), USS Wedderburn (Cdr. C.H. Kendall, USN), USS Twining (Cdr. E.K. Wakefield, USN), USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN).

Task Group 38.3
Aircraft carriers USS Essex (Capt. C.W. Wieber, USN), USS Lexington (Capt. E.W. Litch, USN), light carriers USS Princeton (Capt. W.H. Buracker, USN), USS Langley (Capt. J.F. Wegforth, USN), battleships USS Washington (Capt. T.R. Cooley, USN), USS Massachusetts (Capt. W.W. Warlick, USN), USS South Dakota (Capt. R.S. Riggs, USN), USS Alabama (Capt. V.R. Murphy, Jr., USN), light cruises USS Santa Fé (Capt. J. Wright, USN), USS Mobile (Capt. C.C. Miller, USN), USS Birmingham (Capt. T.B. Inglis, USN), USS Reno (Capt. R.C. Alexander, USN), destroyers USS Clarence K. Bronson (Cdr. G. Scull, USN), USS Cotten (Lt.Cdr. P.W. Winston, USN), USS Dortch (Cdr. R.E. Myers, USN), USS Gatling (Cdr. A.F. Richardson, USN), USS Healy (Cdr. J.C. Atkeson, USN), USS Porterfield (Cdr. D.W. Wulzen, USN), USS Callaghan (Cdr. F.J. Johnson, USN), USS Cassin Young (Cdr. E.T. Schreiber, USN), USS Irwin (Cdr. D.B. Miller, USN), USS Preston (Cdr. G.S. Patrick, USN), USS Laws (Cdr. L.O. Wood, USN), USS Longshaw (Cdr. R.H. Speck, USN), USS Morrison (Cdr. W.H. Price, USN), USS Prichett (Cdr. C.T. Caulfield, USN).

Task Group 38.4 (which came from the Palau area)
Aircraft carriers USS Franklin (Capt. J.M. Shoemaker, USN), USS Enterprise (Capt. C.D. Glover, Jr., USN), light carriers USS San Jacinto (Capt. H.M. Martin, USN), USS Belleau Wood (Capt. J.A Perry, USN), heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (Capt. J.E. Hurff, USN), light cruiser USS Biloxi (Capt. D.M. McGurl, USN), destroyers USS Maury (Cdr. J.W. Koenig, USN), USS Gridley (Cdr. P.D. Quirk, USN), USS Helm (Cdr. S.K. Santmyers, USN), USS McCall (Lt.Cdr. J.B. Carroll, USN), USS Mugford (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), USS Bagley (Cdr. W.H. Shea, Jr., USN), USS Patterson (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Hering, USN), USS Ralph Talbot (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Brown, USNR), USS Wilkes (Lt.Cdr. F.E. McEntire, Jr., USN), USS Nicholson (Cdr. W.C. Bennett, Jr., USN) and USS Swanson (Lt.Cdr. W.K. Ratliff, USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during these operations see the map below.

8 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the light cruiser USS San Diego (Capt. W.E.A. Mulen, USN) and two destroyers, USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN) and USS Benham (Cdr. F.S. Keeler, USN).

Thereafter Iowa herself fuelled from the USS Neches (Cdr. H.G. Hansen, USN).

11 Oct 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Mississinewa (Cdr. P.G. Beck, USNR).

15 Oct 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Caliente (Lt.Cdr. A.E. Stiff, USNR) and the USS Schuylkill (Capt. F.A. Hardesty, USN).

17 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers, USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. S.D.B. Merrill, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN) and USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN).

19 Oct 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Lackawanna (Cdr. A.J. Homann, USN).

23 Oct 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Kennebago (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Brockway, USNR).

25 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers, USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN) and USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN). Upon completion of the fuelling Iowa and other units of the Task Group formed Task Unit 34.5 and proceeded south at high speed (28 knots) towards San Bernardino Strait in the hope of intercepting the enemy force approaching that strait from the southward.

Task Unit 34.5 was made up of battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Biloxi (Capt. D.M. McGurl, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), destroyers USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS Owen (Cdr. C.B.Jones, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN) and USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN).

26 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) and the Task Group she is part of continued on the south. At 0029 hours the destroyer USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN) reported a surface contact. The three light cruisers closed this contact and opened fire on it. The contact turned out to be the Japanese destroyer Nowaki which was sunk by the light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), USS Biloxi (Capt. D.M. McGurl, USN) and the destroyers USS Owen (Cdr. C.B.Jones, USN) and USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN).

3 Nov 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Kaskaskia (Lt.Cdr. W.F. Patten, USNR).

7 Nov 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Nantahala (Capt. P.M. Gunnell, USN) but not before she had fuelled the destroyers USS Twining (Cdr. E.K. Wakefield, USN) and USS Stockham (Cdr. E.P. Holmes, USN) herself.

9 Nov 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) returned to Ulithi Atoll.

14 Nov 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) departed Ulithi for more raids against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Iowa was part of Task Force 38.2 which was made up of the following ships;
Aircraft carriers USS Intrepid (Capt. J.F. Bolger, USN), USS Hancock (Capt. F.C. Dickey, USN), light carriers USS Cabot (Capt. S.J. Michael, USN), USS Independence (Capt. E.C. Ewen, USN), battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), USS Pasadena (Capt. R.B. Tuggle, USN) (until 16 November), destroyers (DesRon 52 / DesDiv 103) USS Owen (Cdr. C.B.Jones, USN), USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN) (joined on 16 November), (Desron 52 / DesDiv 104) USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN) (joined on 17 November), (DesRon 53 / DesDiv 105) USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN) (departed the formation on 20 November), USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. S.D.B. Merrill, USN) (departed the formation on 20 November), USS Wedderburn (Cdr. C.H. Kendall, USN) (joined on 16 November, departed the formation on 23 November), USS Benham (Cdr. F.S. Keeler, USN) (joined on 17 November, departed the formation on 20 November), USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN) (joined on 23 November), (DesRon 53 / Desdiv 106) USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN) (departed the formation on 23 November), USS Stockham (Cdr. E.P. Holmes, USN) (departed the formation on 23 November), USS Twining (Cdr. E.K. Wakefield, USN) (departed the formation on 18 November), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.G. Hooper, USN) (joined on 17 November, departed the formation on 20 November), (DesRon 46 / DesDiv 92) USS Boyd (Cdr. A.E. Teall, USN), USS Brown (Cdr. T.H. Copeman, USN), USS Cowell (Cdr. C.W. Parker, USN) (this division joined on 20 November), (DesRon 51 / DesDiv 102) USS Capps (Cdr. J.W. Wood, USN), USS David W. Taylor (Cdr. W.H. Johnsen, USN), USS John D. Henley (Cdr. C.H. Smith, USN) (this division joined on 23 November). The following destroyers were with this Task Force only briefly; USS Mugford (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), USS Ralph Talbot (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Brown, USNR) (both departed the formation on 16 November), USS Cogswell (Cdr. R.E. Lockwood, USN), USS Caperton (Cdr. G.K. Carmichael, USN), Halford and USS Knapp (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Brown, USN) (these four destroyers departed the formaton even earlier, on 15 November).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during these operations see the map below.

16 Nov 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Neosho (Lt.Cdr. F.P. Parkinson, USNR). Iowa herself refuelled the destroyers USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN) and USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN).

18 Nov 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers USS Twining (Cdr. E.K. Wakefield, USN), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. E.P. Holmes, USN) and USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN).

21 Nov 1944
All ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Kankakee (Lt.Cdr. W.G. Frundt, USNR).

23 Nov 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers, USS Miller, USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), USS Hunt (Cdr. H.A. Knoertzer, USN) and USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN).

24 Nov 1944
All heavy ships of the Task Group including USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) were fuelled by a group of oilers. Iowa herself was fuelled by the USS Guadalupe (Cdr. H.A. Anderson, USN).

27 Nov 1944 (position 0.00, 0.00)
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) returned to Ulithi Atoll.


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