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It may be a big world, but the Pacific was a small ocean in 1944. I remember my dad saying years ago that he had gone to visit Jimmy Brown on his ship during World War II and that Jimmys ship was larger not that that means much when your own home away from Abbot is a 157-foot Landing Craft Infantry.
I had found my dad, Gayland Moore Jr., on ancestry.coms U.S. Navy Muster Rolls for World War II, a new database of enlisted men. So I looked for James F. Brown, of which there were many. None of the ship names rang a bell.See the full content of this document
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Sailors Middle Name Key to Muster Rolls Database
I checked with Jimmys nieces who are also my dads cousins Joyce Eggleston and Joann Bennett, and they said theyd find out the name of his ship. It was the USS Lindenwald, LSD 6, a dock landing ship of 457 feet 9 inches.
With the ships name, I easily found the right Ja...See the full content of this document
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