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To: robowombat

USS Hammann DD-412 was tied up along side the damaged USS Yorktown CV-5 on June the 6th 1942. She was aiding the DC parties on Yorktown when 1 of 4 torpedoes fired at Yorktown, by a Japanese submarine, hit her amidships. She sank in less than 4 minutes. Eighty of her sailors were killed. In later years, Hammann survivors were always warmly welcomed at the reunions of the Yorktown crew.


10 posted on 08/21/2018 7:55:14 AM PDT by Bull Snipe (")
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To: Bull Snipe; robowombat

That’s interesting, the DD-412... The DD-214 is the discharge certificate for former military types...


13 posted on 08/21/2018 9:43:10 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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