Wikipedia.
In the last post, I mentioned that Milt Card had also survived his destroyer being sunk near New Guinea in which he was one of only 30 survivors.
I came across the name of a destroyer, the USS Brownson DD-518, which was sunk while covering action at Cape Gloucester, New Guinea on 26 December 1943.
A dive bomber hit it with two bombs causing huge damage. The article said that 108 of the 300-man crew died.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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