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Website: The U.S.S. Harry Lee - Biography of an Attack Transport Ship in WWII Hello Mac, I can't remember if I sent you this link I came across it when doing an internet search on attack transports. If not, better late than never. The site was put together by a medical doctor in Seattle on the USS Harry Lee, the ship his father-in-law served on in the Pacific. It briefly discussed Olympic so I sent a copy of an old letter containing various useful links as an FYI. Take a look at what he did: http://www.waszak.com/giangreco_bibliography.htm (from "The U.S.S. Harry Lee - Biography of an Attack Transport Ship in WWII") The fellow did a considerable amount of work on this and made some useful additions. Also took some of my suggestions re filling it out a bit on the review essay links. Looks great. Unlike your site, however, he does not Regards,
Thank you for that, he has produced a nice clean site that is a pleasure to roam. We will add a link to it. I note the USS Harry Lee was at Iwo Jima, I have been thinking of revisiting that arena, and doing a small piece for AHOY, it was certainly a bloody affair, with an awful loss of life on both sides, about 7,000 US and 21,000 Japanese. No doubt these figures would have paled to insignificance if the planned invasion of the Japanese homeland had come to pass. I know for one, I was very relieved when President Truman took the decision to unleash the Atom bombs, forcing the surrender. My RAN cruiser at the time, HMAS Shropshire would have been in the bombardment force in any invasion attempt, so we were then in Tokyo Bay for the signing of the surrender on board USS Missouri on the 2nd. of September 1945. With this battleship now in Honolulu, the USS Missouri Association is celebrating the 60th. anniversary of that historic event on the 2nd. of September next, and my wife Denise and myself have been invited by that Associatrion to be present in the Mighty Mo for that ceremony, and we are looking forward to it. Nice to hear from you, Best regards, |
