USS Knapp: Foxtrot Zulu One""

Foxtrot, Zulu, One "I am continuing to search"   USS Knapp on the afternoon of December 20, 1944 sights and recovers two and then later that day three shipwrecked  USS Hull (DD350) cremen after their Farragut Class destroyer capsized and sank during typhoon Cobra on December 19, 1944 in 150+ mph winds. Known as "Halsey's Typhoon", his 170 ships were battered and three Farragut Class destroyers were sunk: USS Hull, USS Spence and USS Monahegan(?). This painting depicts the rescue of Seaman  1st Class Al Taylor who would be pulled out of the water by Knapp's rescue swimmer Owen "Red" Atkinson 20years of age from Georgia. He also went back into the ocean to recover a body which was later buried at sea. Atkinson later went back in the sea and rescued  CIC officer Lt. Lloyd Rust.