Cape Trinity and Marine Tiger crew? Anyone?
Posted by Patrick Martin on January 24, 2010, 6:53 am
Anyone serve on these ships? My grandfather was a 20mm gunner on them. He told me about how one of these had a telephone pole mounted in place of one of the larger guns and how he and his buddies once smuggled a few hundred cases of beer from one resupply ship to theirs by running a line from ship to ship and making hooks out of wire and hooking each case so it could be slid across to their ship. Also spoke about some trouble with a certain lieutenant concerning a bunch of nurses or officers wives that were being transported and how none of the men were allowed to fraternize with them.
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