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Ric

Posted 2008-04-06 9:46 AM (#14704)

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Subject: Now this is scary .....

USS Tambor being used as a strafing target during WW II of Port Angles, Washington.
Photo provided by Lance Dean in memory of his grandfather Shelton Doyle Blalock, EM3c

Photo provided by Lance Dean in memory of his grandfather Shelton Doyle Blalock, EM3c

snakeyez

Posted 2008-04-06 2:07 PM (#14712 - in reply to #14704)

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Location: Chunky, MS

Subject: RE: Now this is scary .....

Yeah, I hate that Papaw never talked about the time they spent helping to train those pilots.

I have found 1 man living still that was on the boat at this time. His name is Ben Hynum. I wish he'd register and post on here about this experience...

Lance

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