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Old 01-11-2010, 05:24 AM
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McHank... did your father serve aboard the Howard, or Long?

My father had a USS Howard scrapbook that someone on the ship must have put together. The below link is to a lot of scanned images from a Howard scrapbook belonging to Thomas O'Hara - looks like he had some good times on R&R. My dad's scrapbook has most of the same photos and he is in image #24 (right side).

http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/0907d.htm
I have other photos of the ship that I can send along if you want.

Also, I just got through reading Herman Wouk's, The Cain Mutiny. Wouk had served on a 4-piper Wickes-class DMS during WWII and the story takes place on such a ship. Unfortunately, the movie (starred Humphry Bogart) was not filmed on a Wickes-class DMS because they had all been scrapped by 1951 when the film was made. It's a good read (pulitzer prize winner) and will give you a good idea of what life was like on such a ship.

Jim Riley
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