My father served on it between the years of 1941 and 1944 so I am interested in learning about it's history and finding a picture as I am doing a bio of my fathers life as a Merchant Marine.
2006-12-10 15:08:33 · 7 answers · asked by j_miller46 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Sounds like your father was a lucky man, but you already knew that.
All I can find is that she was a freighter built just before the Victory Ship freighters, with an unremarkable history throughout WWII except that she was machine gunned near Nuevitas, Cuba on June 2, 1942 by an unidentified submarine but sustained no injuries nor damage. Freighters like this usually were not armed. This was about the time German U-Boats were called off from the US coast back to the North Atlantic and just before the Battle of Midway in the Pacific.
Being a pre-Victory Ship freighter, she was probably a quality vessel purposely kept out of harms way. It appears as though she had been assigned for and was being prepared for some type of war effort during 1945 - about the time your father was transferred off of it - preparation possibly in support of the invasion of Japan, before the atomic bombs cut the war short - but this is my opinion based on the timing of events.
The best I could do. You're going to have to vigilant in finding a photo.
If you can identify the shipyard who built her, you might be able to identify her sister ships for which there may be photos.
2006-12-10 15:53:56 · answer #1 · answered by waplambadoobatawhopbamboo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Panzer, actually translated actual skill ARMOR, not panther. Plus, the German Tiger and Panther tanks, mutually as stable gun systems and nicely armored, had crappy engines and gasoline systems. a greater effective tank, probable the terrific of the conflict, grew to become into the Joseph Stalin (Iosif Stalin) IS-2 sort 1944 (greater distinctive, yet with some qc subject concerns with the armor that made them a splash greater vunerable), or the IS-3, of which in uncomplicated terms 350 have been produced in the time of the conflict. the two a form of carried a 122mm cannon, that ought to penetrate the German Panther from front to diminish back, and that could additionally penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger II. the US M-4 Sherman grew to become right into a stopgap piece of s***. that's gun grew to become into too small and that's armor grew to become into too skinny. the only ingredient it had going for it grew to become into velocity and manuverability, and the undeniable fact that we made so d*** many. It wasn't till the production of the M-26 Pershing that the US created a first rate tank, and we by no skill have been given very many over to Europe.
2016-10-14 10:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh I've googled every combination I can think of to find pictures on their images.
Sorry :(
2006-12-10 15:19:46 · answer #3 · answered by ??? LadyBoyd ??? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call the army and ask them instead of finding the pictures online.
2006-12-10 15:28:28 · answer #4 · answered by henry z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you spell the name correct? I not find anything, sorry.
May try this link; http://www.usmm.org/ Good Luck!
2006-12-10 15:19:12 · answer #5 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ag6CZjbGDmN0HxpJaOKFx24ezKIX?link=answer&qid=20061210092124AAMIGhs&u=o&update=update&prev_ans_page=1 Look familiar?
You have two open questions that are exactly the same.
2006-12-10 23:05:43 · answer #6 · answered by Quest 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Domino_(IX-208)
2006-12-10 17:44:57 · answer #7 · answered by tronary 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋