Posted by Ultradog MN on September 18, 2009 at 08:02:32 from (71.34.13.162):
In Reply to: OT: You Just Never Know posted by James Howell on September 17, 2009 at 13:57:49:
Great post James. Thanks. I was at the grocery store about a year ago and saw an older fellow wearing a ball cap with USS Columbia CL-56 on the brim. So I asked him about the ship and he told me he'd served on it for the entire war. He wasn't a man of many words though so I just let him go about his business. When I got home I goggled the ship and realized the old man had been to hell and back on it - from the Solomon Islands to the Phillipines where the ship was hit by three Kamikazes in Lingayen Gulf. A couple of very famous photos of that event are of one of the Kamikazes striking his ship. I wish I could have talked to him longer, especially after learning what the ship had been through.
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