Though not quite “lone”, this is the story of the floatplane whose crew saved 20 Miss survivors on 20Nov1944. As the article says, neiher Captain Beck nor his crew knew the identify of the float plane pilot and radioman who risked their lives that day. We have found out who
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Mass. Maritime Accademy honor Lt. Robert Rowe
Lt. Robert Rowe, Navigator of the USS Mississinewa (AO-59), was a 1931 graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. His daughter, Jan Tracy, was kind enough to share a photo of a display recently created at the academy honoring her late father. Lt. Rowe was severely burned when the ship sank.
Continue readingVeteran’s Breakfast Club video chat – Dec 2020
Mike Mair and a host of others discussed the book, Kaiten, and the USS Mississinewa joined the Veteran’s Breakfast Club’s video blog two days in December 2020. Some of those who attended the zoom meeting were: relatives of the crew, an eye witness to the sinking of the Miss, daughter
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Kaiten Book Review The following review is generously offered by John Adams Graf, editor of Military Trader, MiliaryTrader.com Kaiten: Japan’s Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII, by Michael Mair and Joy Waldron (ISBN: 978-0425272695, Berkley Publishing Group, published by Penguin Group, 357 Hudson
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