Originally Posted by
NewFlyBoy
For no particular reason this 4th of July, I began thinking about the WW II ships I have visited and compiled the following list of ships I have been aboard:
1) HMS Belfast (C-35)
2) USS Franklin (CV-13)
3) USS New Jersey (BB-62)
4) USS Massachusetts (BB-59)
5) USS Ling (SS-297)
6) USS Requin (SS-481)
7) USS Kidd (DD-661)
8) USS Slater (DE-766)
9) USS Kankakee (AO-39) -- this was the ship my Dad came home from Japan on post WW II. He and I visited it while it was still on active service when it came into the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1960's -- it was the sister ship of the one he served on for the duration of WW II (USS Merrimack, AO-37).
10) USS Intrepid (CV- 11 )
11) USS Joseph P. Kennedy (DD-850)
12) USS Cassin Young (DD-793)
13) Elco PT-617
14) Higgins PT-796
15) USS Lionfish (SS-298)
16) Liberty ship ghost fleet (dozens of ships in mothballs when I was a kid anchored in upper Hudson River-- couldn't go on them but was very close to them)
There are probably more -- but I've reached that age where things disappear into the mists of memory......
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