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<blockquote data-quote="LCI449" data-source="post: 27629" data-attributes="member: 2191"><p><strong>Lee Carlton Yates</strong></p><p></p><p>Lt. (j.g.) Yates died aboard my grandfathers LCI gunboat 449. He was in the conning tower with the Executive Officer and the Skipper of the 449. Also there were two signalmen. A mortar round landed right in the conning tower blowing the skipper out of the back and down to the deck below. Yates, Signalman Park, a Photographer named McGrath the Executive Officer named Yarbrough were all killed as was another member of the UDT party PFC Brockmeyer USMC recon. These men were obliterated. In fact, one of the crew said the conning tower was cleaned up with shovels and buckets. It was a sad loss. The ship was hit two other times just a few seconds before resulting in 21 Dead and 22 Wounded out of a crew of 70 men. My grandpa did not get a scratch. His name was Clifford Lemke and he had a hard time with it. He wondered how he could survive when he was standing right in the middle of so many who had died. I know Yates was married and had a daughter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LCI449, post: 27629, member: 2191"] [b]Lee Carlton Yates[/b] Lt. (j.g.) Yates died aboard my grandfathers LCI gunboat 449. He was in the conning tower with the Executive Officer and the Skipper of the 449. Also there were two signalmen. A mortar round landed right in the conning tower blowing the skipper out of the back and down to the deck below. Yates, Signalman Park, a Photographer named McGrath the Executive Officer named Yarbrough were all killed as was another member of the UDT party PFC Brockmeyer USMC recon. These men were obliterated. In fact, one of the crew said the conning tower was cleaned up with shovels and buckets. It was a sad loss. The ship was hit two other times just a few seconds before resulting in 21 Dead and 22 Wounded out of a crew of 70 men. My grandpa did not get a scratch. His name was Clifford Lemke and he had a hard time with it. He wondered how he could survive when he was standing right in the middle of so many who had died. I know Yates was married and had a daughter. [/QUOTE]
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