Thanks Eric, I don't think my guy lived past 12/7/1941. He's listed as a civilian casualty.
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 12:39:00 PM UTC-5, luiznoia wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
