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1909 - USS Scorpion arrives to help the survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake. With the Great White Fleet making its way through the Suez Canal, President Theodore Roosevelt orders the Navy to assist.
1943 - USS Humboldt rescues ten survivors from the Philippines motor-ship Dona Aurora, which was sunk by Italian submarine Enrico Tazzol on Dec. 25, 1942.
1945 - Task Force 38, under Vice Adm. John S. McCain, begins operations against Japanese airfields and shipping in the Formosa area, with aircraft sinking six enemy ships.
1945 - USS Kingfish (SS 234) attacks a Japanese convoy in the Bonin Islands sinking a Japanese army cargo ship and two freighters 200 miles north of Chichi Jima.

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USS Scorpion arrives in Messina to aid earthquake survivors. The ship, a part of the Great White Fleet, was in the region during the earthquake.]]