Status - John Skinner - USS O'Brien:
On January 21, 1942, O'Brien was at sea, moving north through the Pacific toward San Francisco, in company with Idaho and Mustin. The ships had transited the Panama Canal the previous day.
The Panama Canal was completed in 1914 and has two sets of locks, the Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side, and the Miraflores Locks on the Pacific side.
- Panama Canal Passage - Gatun Locks - YouTube video of a ship passage of the Gatun locks, and demonstrates how close to the walls of the locks some ships get during the passage.
- The Path Between The Seas - book by David McCullough gives a detailed history of the building of the Panama Canal.
Other Events
- January 18-19: Four ships were sunk off the east coast of the US, including one tanker, Another tanker was damaged.
- January 20th: Marines land at Pago Pago, American Samoa, covered by Task Force 8 (centered on carrier USS Enterprise). This was part of establishing forces on the chain of islands between Hawaii and Australia.
- Task Force 8 (centered on USS Enterprise) and newly formed Task Force 17 (centered on USS Yorktown) begin moving toward the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands to conduct a raid on Japanese occupied islands there.
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