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ptbrat
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 12:15am
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WOW! Thanks so much, Ted! She mistakenly called it 248.
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ptbrat
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 1:16am
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That would be him! Thx so much, Ted! Liz is an info. hoarder, and when she croaks, tons of family history is going to disappear. The other 5 of us have to do our digging.
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ptbrat
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 1:21am
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Oops. re-posted because I didn't see the "next page" thing... learning.
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rickas
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 Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 3:58pm
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He even assisted in an emergency appendectomy on the boat, reading instructions to the corpsman! They drained ether from a torpedo to use in some fashion. The story made headlines, stateside.
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This sounds like a story worth retelling. Do you know the details?
Rick Schaefer Splinter
TM2c John E Mirus
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PT-107 Dec '43-April '44 PT-63 April '44-June'44 PT-108 June '44-Nov '44
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29navy
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 4:39pm
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He went through the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center in Melville RI from May - July 1943.
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29navy
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 4:58pm
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Here's one write-up from the Gettysburg newspaper.
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29navy
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Posted on: May 12, 2018 - 5:16pm
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Picture of the Medical officer and the operation from the Pittsburg paper
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: May 13, 2018 - 9:30am
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BarneyFyfe;
PM me and I will see if I can dig up, what I sent Liz.
Take care,
TED
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Jeff D
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Posted on: May 13, 2018 - 2:01pm
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Wow nice work Charlie! Cool story about your Dad BF.
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