PLEASE FOLLOW OUR E BAY STORE. PLEASE READ WHOLE ADD. We do not want your feed back. We want your repeat business. We get by having best prices on the net. NOTE :SUB BADGE IS POST WW2- PRE 1960. Banner is apx 30 inch’s. Submarine action in Palawan Passage (23 October 1944). Note: This action is referred to by Morison as’The Fight in Palawan Passage’. And elsewhere, occasionally, as the’Battle of Palawan Passage’. As it sortied from its base in Brunei. Kurita’s powerful “Center Force” consisted of five battleships Yamato. Ten heavy cruisers Atago. , two light cruisers Noshiro. Around midnight on 22-23 October. The American submarines Darter. Were positioned together on the surface close by. At 01:16 on 23 October, Darter. S radar detected the Japanese formation in the Palawan Passage. At a range of 30,000 yd (27,000 m). Her captain promptly made visual contact. At least one of these was picked up by a radio operator on Yamato, but Kurita failed to take appropriate antisubmarine precautions. Darter and Dace traveled on the surface at full power for several hours and gained a position ahead of Kurita’s formation, with the intention of making a submerged attack at first light. This attack was unusually successful. At 05:24, Darter fired a salvo of six torpedoes, at least four of which hit Kurita’s flagship. The heavy cruiser Atago. Ten minutes later, Darter made two hits on Atago. Takao, with another spread of torpedoes. At 05:56, Dace made four torpedo hits on the heavy cruiser Maya (sister to Atago and Takao). Atago and Maya quickly sank. Atago sank so rapidly that Kurita was forced to swim to survive. He was rescued by the Japanese destroyer Kishinami. And then later transferred to the battleship Yamato. Takao turned back to Brunei, escorted by two destroyers, and was followed by the two submarines. On 24 October, as the submarines continued to shadow the damaged cruiser, Darter ran aground on the Bombay Shoal. All efforts to get her off failed; she was abandoned; and her entire crew was rescued by Dace. Efforts to scuttle Darter over the course of the next week all failed, including torpedoes from Dace and Rock. That hit the reef (and not Darter) and deck-gun shelling from Dace and later Nautilus. After multiple hits from his 6-inch deck guns. The Nautilus commander determined on 31 October that the equipment on Darter was only good for scrap and left her there. The Japanese did not bother with the wreck. Takao retired to Singapore. Being joined in January 1945 by Myoko, as the Japanese deemed both crippled cruisers irreparable and left them moored in the harbor as floating anti-aircraft batteries. The Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. Was a United States. Of the Second World War. Which was awarded to any member of the United States Armed Forces. Who served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. From 1941 to 1945. The medal was created on November 6, 1942, by Executive Order. Issued by President Franklin D. The medal was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones. The reverse side was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman. Which is the same design as used on the reverse of the American Campaign Medal. And European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. There were 21 Army and 48 Navy-Marine Corps official campaigns of the Pacific Theater, denoted on the suspension and service ribbon. Of the medal by service stars. Which also were called “battle stars”; some Navy construction battalion. Units issued the medal with Arabic numerals. Is authorized for those campaigns which involved participation in amphibious assault landings. The Fleet Marine Force Combat Operation Insignia. Is also authorized for wear on the medal for Navy service members who participated in combat while assigned to a Marine Corps unit. The flag colors of the United States and Japan. Are visible in the ribbon. The Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal was first issued as a service ribbon in 1942. A full medal was authorized in 1947, the first of which was presented to General of the Army. Equivalent of the medal was known as the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. Boundaries of Asiatic-Pacific Theater. (1) The eastern boundary is coincident with the western boundary of the American Theater. (2) The western boundary is from the North Pole south along the 60th meridian east longitude to its intersection with the east boundary of Iran, then south along the Iran boundary to the Gulf of Oman and the intersection of the 60th meridian east longitude, then south along the 60th meridian east longitude to the South Pole. US Navy – Marine Corps campaigns. The 43 officially recognized US Navy campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations are. Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor. 8 December 1941 – 6 May 1942. Netherlands East Indies engagements. 23 January – 27 February 1942. 1 February – 10 March 1942. 7-9 August 1942 (First Savo). Capture and defense of Guadalcanal. 10 August 1942 – 8 February 1943. Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid: 5 October 1942. 11-12 October 1942 (Second Savo). 12-15 November 1942 (Third Savo). 30 November – 1 December 1942 (Fourth Savo). Eastern New Guinea operation. 17 December 1942 – 24 July 1944. Consolidation of Solomon Islands. 8 February 1943 – 15 March 1945. 26 March – 2 June 1943. New Georgia Group operation. 20 June – 16 October 1943. Bismarck Archipelago operation: 25 June 1943 – 1 May 1944. Pacific raids (1943): 31 August – 6 October 1943. Operation: 27 October – 15 December 1943. 13 November – 8 December 1943. 26 November 1943 – 2 March 1944. Asiatic-Pacific raids (1944): 16 February – 9 October 1944. Western New Guinea operations. 21 April 1944 – 9 January 1945. 10 June – 27 August 1944. Western Caroline Islands operation. 31 August – 14 October 1944. 10 October – 29 November 1944. 12 December 1944 – 1 April 1945. 15 February – 16 March 1945. 17 March – 30 June 1945. Third Fleet operations against Japan. 10 July – 15 August 1945. 1 February 1944 – 11 August 1945. 27 April – 20 July 1945. Tinian capture and occupation. 24 July – 1 August 1944. Consolidation of the Southern Philippines. 28 February – 20 July 1945. 21 April – 1 June 1944. 29 January – 16 April 1945. Escort, antisubmarine, armed guard and special operations: 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945. Submarine War Patrols (Pacific). 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945.