That was the same day he was at Ticonderoga.
November 25, 1944"Kumano" was attacked by aircraft from the aircraft carrier"Ticonderoga".
Ticonderoga, Shelburne(Vermont) is a paddle steamer which served
as a Lake Champlain ferry until 1969.
I would have called her Bunker Hill or Miss Ticonderoga, if she had wanted.
The third representative of the family, the cruiser URO"Ticonderoga", was unified with destroyers for most systems.
The Ticonderoga(CG 47)
class guided missile cruisers were built on the Spruance hull(the hull and engineering was almost identical).
When the American Revolutionary War broke out,
Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
Unsurprisingly, his accomplishments have been exaggerated- for example, yes,
he took Fort Ticonderoga, but his troops out-numbered the enemy's four to one.
He was the leader of the Green Mountain boys during the Revolutionary War,
and won acclaim by capturing Fort Ticonderoga assisted by Benedict Arnold, in May of 1775.
A number of private interests sought to have the medal re-instituted in the Army,
this included the board of directors of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum in Ticonderoga, New York.