03USS Phoebe service timeline
A sourced chronology that keeps dates, places, event types and evidence in the same view.
Reader route / Operations
Where a small ship fits on the map
Operations connects Phoebe to chronology, navigation, ports, exercises and the larger western Pacific systems in which a coastal minesweeper worked. The Service Ledger is the quickest route through the evidence, while the essays explain why each setting matters.
07 ways into the recordUpdated August 25, 2026
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07USS Phoebe and Operation Market Time
What the surviving official record can establish about the ship’s place in a larger coastal surveillance operation.
08Operation Market Time explained
A clear map of the operation’s barriers, force types and research limits.
09What Sasebo tells us about home port
How a home port changes the way a ship’s operational history can be read.
10Reading a western Pacific route
A method for placing assignments and ports in context without drawing an unsupported track.
11Why allied mine exercises matter
Exercises reveal how small ships learned a shared vocabulary of equipment, signals and procedure.
18Reading the final service years
What a late-service photograph or status note can establish, and what it leaves open.
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