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 Author  Topic: Don Rickles passed away
29navy

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A PT Boater made his final patrol.  Seaman First Class Don Rickles, who served aboard the PT-boat tender the USS Cyrene in the Pacific. He died Thursday, April 6, at his Los Angeles home. He was 90.  Fair winds and following seas, Mr. Rickles

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Frank J Andruss Sr

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I read this before on Facebook. Such a shame for sure.


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Shipmate you stand relieved.. we have the watch..."

"Boatswain..Standby to pipe the side...Shipmate's going to Heaven.."

Fair winds and following seas to BMC Otto Sharkey USN:

AKA: S1/C Donald Rickles USNR USS Cyrene( AGP-13)1944-1946.


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R.I.P., S1/C Rickles, aka "Mr . Warmth."

As with all of your fellow WWII veterans, "we will not see your kind pass this way again..."


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RESPECT...


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