Lee Carlton Yates
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...
Ralph Athol Blowers
The following story comes from the book, The U.S. Frogmen of World War II. The book is written by Wyatt Blassingame and published in 1964 by Random House. The following story comes from page 76, "...a landing craft had just picked up John Parrish of Team 3 and was...
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