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Our Granddaughter on Veteran's Day

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I took our 8 year old Granddaughter to the Veteran's Day
ceremony,& she ended up getting on the front page of the local
paper.
As she was wearing her Uncle's hat that he had while attending
the Naval Acadamy,& he's visiting here now,made it even better.Plus,
she is shown greeting Herb Wall,a Navy Veteran,who was on the -
Bismark Sea when it was sunk.
I'm not sure how to post individual pictures (or even if I can),so
you have to pick her out.

- Doug

https://mng-eureka.smugmug.com/Other/Veterans-Day/33385338_88F5rv#!i=2901055184&k=WtRnrsB

https://mng-eureka.smugmug.com/Other/Veterans-Day/33385338_88F5rv#!i=2900113295&k=WZmq3GK
 
Doug - great pictures, and even greater that your town was able to honor so many vets on Veterans Day. What an honor for your grand daughter to meet Mr. Wall.

I didn't know the WW2 story of the USS Bismarck Sea until you posted this.

Thanks.
Tom
 
Thanks - Herb (& his Wife Agnes,are like another Great Grandmother/Grandfatherto Lilly,& I've known them all of my life. - Doug
 
Those are wonderful pics of your granddaughter with a member of our "greatest generation". I hope she will remember this day!

The Escort Carriers or "baby flattops" were the unsung heroes of the Pacific War (and the Atlantic for that matter). They didn't get the headlines or the glamor of serving on the big fleet carriers, but they had a job to do and did it well. If you see some of the pictures of the Bismarck Sea after she was hit, it's amazing anyone got off her. Escort Carriers weren't meant to take the kind of punishment the bigger carriers could, yet many of them took some incredible amounts of damage and still remained afloat.
 
It is very cool that your granddaughter got to meet someone who experienced so much history; I love the fact that she is rocking the dixie cup. If I'm not mistaken the USS Bismarck Sea was the last US ship sunk during the war.
 
waltesefalcon said:
It is very cool that your granddaughter got to meet someone who experienced so much history; I love the fact that she is rocking the dixie cup. If I'm not mistaken the USS Bismarck Sea was the last US ship sunk during the war.
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It was the last carrier sunk, but not the last ship. Bismarck Sea was sunk February 21st, 1945. The last major combatant sunk was the submarine USS Bullhead on August 6, 1945. The last major surface vessel was either the USS Indianapolis (sunk by submarine) or the USS Callaghan (kamikaze) on July 29, 1945.
 
Very cool, Doug!
 
Well I knew it was the last something sunk.
 
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