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Gerald McPeake

Pacific Theater of Operations; United States Navy – 1944-1946Gerald McPeake

  • Served on a yard class minesweeper
  • Signalman third class
  • Swept for mines in advance of Allied amphibious forces
  • Survived a 47 degree roll to starboard during a typhoon
  • Witnessed the devastation in Nagasaki
  • Preparing for invasion of Japan when war ended

 

 

 

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