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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Profiles Spring-Summer 2014 HFDFW


Jack enlisted into the Navy on August 9, 1943. After basic training he was sent to the South Pacific and began serving on the U.S.S. Wrangell, AE-12 which an ammunition ship.

During his service on the Wrangell, Jack’s ship was tasked with loading ammunition on other ships, sometimes at sea while underway.

Jack saw the raising of the flag on Mt. Suribachi off Iwo Jima. No doubt the Wrangell experience the massive suicide attacks on U.S.Navy ships anchored off that strategic island that was the scene of horrific fighting between Marines and fanatical Japanese.

In August, 1945, the Wrangell was anchored in Leyte Gulf when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Jack said that he observed the pyrotechnics caused by the massive blast hundreds of miles away.

Jack was discharged from the Navy on February 8, 1946 with the rank of Pharmacist Mate 2nd Class.  

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