Wednesday, December 07, 2011

december 7

My dad had just turned 16 less than two weeks before December 7, 1941. At 17 he enlisted in the Coast Guard and was a radarman second class on a destroyer escort for the rest of the war.

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Posing on the ship with an unidentified friend

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Visiting home (Belmar, N.J.) on leave
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2 comments:

jane said...

What was his ship #? My dad was on LST #21 “Blackjack Maru”.

xoxoxo said...

I had to check with my brother. : )

He was on the Merrill.

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