The USS Harder was able to return to Fremantle by 8 November 1944. Mitsui Maru, the only survivor of Takao's convoy, would be sunk (instead of Hiyodori) on 17 November 1944 by USS Gunnel. With the losses of Asashimo and Naganami to USS Harder, US carrier...
In February 1962, Randolph was standing-by as the command ship of a flotilla to recover astronaut John Glenn. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. Determining the splashdown area from a orbit was exponentially harder than a 15-minute vertical flight into space and back. To complic...