From the book Battle Starts for the Cactus Navy, by David Bruhn, he describes the " tuna clippers" and their mostly Portuguese captains in WW2 .
begin at page 5- Fishing Vessels to the fore. It describes their involvement in the battle at Guadalcanal <http://www.davidbruhn.com/Chapter1BattleStars.pdf> http://www.davidbruhn.com/Chapter1BattleStars.pdf Eric Edgar On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Herb <[email protected]> wrote: > 73 years ago... December 7, 1941 after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 47 > Portuguese Tuna boats were converted into war ships and 600 > Portuguese/Azoreans in San Diego and Hawaii were commissioned to serve the > United States. Azorean Fishermen became American warriors.Today we pay > Tribute to their courage and contribution to this country! > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
