The Destroyer Escort That Crushed a Cargo Sub, USS Manlove #history #ww2

追加: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]USS Manlove was an Evarts-class destroyer escort, a small warship built to shield convoys and keep supply lines flowing.

[00:00:11]In the Pacific, that meant anti-submarine patrols and screening against air attack.

[00:00:17]It was dangerous work that rarely made headlines.

[00:00:21]Her name carried weight. Arthur Manlove was born in Tipton, Indiana in 1901, enlisted in the Navy in 1923, and rose to the rank of warrant officer, serving aboard ships such as USS Augusta and USS Colorado.

[00:00:38]In November 1941, he reported for duty aboard USS Arizona, and a month later, on December 7th, he was killed alongside hundreds of American sailors during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

[00:00:52]After her shakedown, the destroyer escort arrived at Pearl Harbor on January 16th, 1944, then pushed into the Marshall Islands.

[00:01:02]On March 24th, during her first hunter-killer assignment, Manlove made contact on the Japanese transport submarine I-32 attempting to resupply the garrison at Wotje, one of the heavily defended atolls in the Marshalls.

[00:01:18]Manlove and the patrol craft PC-1135 executed a coordinated attack, running depth charge patterns until the contact was destroyed.

[00:01:29]From there, it was back to the grind. In May 1944, Manlove began convoy duty between Majuro and Kwajalein, then screened fleet oilers during refuelings.

[00:01:42]In October 1944, she arrived at Enewetak and spent months on the convoy lanes to Ulithi.

[00:01:49]By March 1945, Manlove joined the buildup for Okinawa, arriving on station off the island on April 2nd.

[00:01:57]On April 11th, she was damaged when a Japanese aircraft was destroyed and exploded nearby.

[00:02:04]After repairs at Guam, she returned to the Okinawa patrol line.

[00:02:08]On July 5th, 1945, Manlove was ordered home to the United States and was in Seattle when the war ended.