[Steven Scharf]

From Nimitz Graybook Extensive ice flows encountered forced DesRon 57 to abandon bombardment of SURIBACHI. My wiki search produced these five references Suribachi can refer to: • Suribachi and surikogi, Japanese mortar and pestle • Mount Suribachi, mountain on Iwo Jima, Japan • Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), mountain in Antarctica • USS Suribachi (AE-21), ship of the United States Navy • Suribachi-class ammunition ship, class of ship of United States Navy Omitting the three non place references, we can also omit Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), as it dates to 1973. Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima which is at 24°45′01″N 141°17′20″ calculated as about 1623 miles north of the equator and slightly higher than Hawaii. Was this referring to another place and they got the spelling wrong or was there really icebergs that far south.

[Steven Scharf]

From Nimitz Graybook
Extensive ice flows encountered forced DesRon 57 to abandon bombardment of SURIBACHI.

My wiki search produced these five references

Suribachi can refer to:
• Suribachi and surikogi, Japanese mortar and pestle
• Mount Suribachi, mountain on Iwo Jima, Japan
• Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), mountain in Antarctica
• USS Suribachi (AE-21), ship of the United States Navy
• Suribachi-class ammunition ship, class of ship of United States Navy

Omitting the three non place references, we can also omit Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), as it dates to 1973.

Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima which is at 24 45 01 North, 141 17 20 West; calculated as about 1623 miles north of the equator and slightly higher than Hawaii.

Was this referring to another place and they got the spelling wrong or was there really icebergs that far south.

Putting the lat/long in exact format screwed up last post.

[colorado tanker]

At the time, Desron 57 was assigned to the Aleutians. This mission appears to have been to bombard Suribati in the Kuriles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rowe_%28DD-564%29