Another branch that gets little credit is the Merchant Marine. I need
to check but I seem to recal hearing they lost more men to enemy action than
any other. Some men were torpedoed and rescued by another ship in the
convoy only to be sunk again - some men were sunk as many as 3 times in one
voyage! Most of the ships were without much to shoot back with - and the
Germans used long distance airplaces to bomb the ships.
All those ships in the water off Normandy are part merchant ships and part
warships - and the Germans were targeting the merchant ships as well as the
warships.
IIRC the Merchant Marine veterans had trouble taking advantage of the
benefits promised to the other services. Eventually they were successful I
believe..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilton Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] June 6, 1944
> US Navy and US Coast Guard. How many or what percentage of each I don't
> know, but, yes, Wonko, "your" service was there en mass, too - likely a
> large percentage.
>
> Wilton
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] June 6, 1944
>
>
>> Wilton,
>>
>> Who (what service) *drove* the boats that delivered the folks to the
> beach?
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Wilton Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> > I turned 10 four days after my brother, Lewis, and others of that
>> > finest
> of
>> > generations stormed onto/into France. I was not quite 8 when another
>> > brother, Jerry, helped to deliver Doolittle's men and 16 B-25's on the
>> > carrier, Hornet, to within striking distance of Japan. I was 11 when
>> > another brother, Carson, rode a halftrack into Germany in '45, about
>> > the
>> > same time Lewis, as Chief-of-the-Boat delivered troops, supplies during
> the
>> > invasion of Okinawa. (Okinawa, is that spelled right? 'Doesn't look
>> > right.)
>> >
>> > There's no way that we can ever thank that "finest of generations" for
>> > saving the world from Hitler and Tojo and their henchmen.
>> >
>> > Humbly,
>> >
>> > Wilton
>> >
>> >
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