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TexasTowelie

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3. The USS Barrow

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 05:18 AM

Mar 2013

was at the first two atomic bomb tests in the Bikini Atolls. It sustained moderate radiological damage after the Able test and heavy damage in the Baker test, decommissioned in August 1946 and scuttled at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands in May 1948.

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March 31,1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned. [View all] Sherman A1 Mar 2013 OP

My father was aboard the USS Barrow, TexasTowelie Mar 2013 #1

My father was aboard an LST Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #2

The USS Barrow TexasTowelie Mar 2013 #3

My Dad's LST went to Japan for a bit Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #4

Looked up the Barrow Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #5

My Grandfather vt_native Mar 2013 #6

A lot of good men where lost in those years Sherman A1 Mar 2013 #7