A search of the subscription website Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com) turns up three references to your father. Two were arrivals in New York of SS THOMAS L. CLINGMAN, the first on 8 August 1944 from Basra, Iraq, and the second on 28 October 1944 from Naples, Italy. On these two voyages your father is listed as Paul James Pisano, S1/c (seaman first class), serial number 816-90-77. Lists of his Armed Guard shipmates on the two voyages appear below; many of the same men sailed together on both voyages. The men you mention by last name all appear in the list below.
The third reference to your father is for the arrival of SS JOSEPH HOOKER in New York on 20 June 1945 from Le Havre, France. For this arrival your father is listed as Paul J. Pisano, S1/c. Again I list his Armed Guard shipmates below. One shipmate, Thomas A. Bowen, sailed with your father on all three voyages.
I do not know whether any of your father's shipmates are still living nor, if living, do I have contact information for them.
Two of your father's shipmates later joined the U.S.N. Armed Guard World War II Veterans Association, and that organization may know whether either is still living and would have contact information if they are. The two shipmates are John Curley (sailed with your father aboard THOMAS L. CLINGMAN) and Herman Raley (shipmate on JOSEPH HOOKER).
Here is contact information for the Armed Guard veterans association:
C.A. Lloyd, Chairman
U.S.N. Armed Guard World War II Veterans Association
115 Wall Creek Drive
Rolesville, NC 27571
Telephone: 919-570-0909
E-mail: clloyd@nc.rr.com
Good luck.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster
Armed Guard website
www.armed-guard.com
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SS THOMAS L. CLINGMAN
First voyage: arriving New York 8 August 1944 from Basra, Iraq
Second voyage: arriving New York 28 October 1944 from Naples, Italy
Bachand, Lucien Lionel **
Bowen, Thomas Augustus
Butler, Robert Allen **
Cassell, Rhubin David
Cipriano, Sam V. ** LT(jg), Armed Guard commanding officer
Corder, James Randall
Curley, John T. **
Dick, Cecil Raymond
Duncan, Howard Norman
Dysart, Lee Anderson
Felice, Eugene John
Giunta, Arthur
Ince, Ralph Walter
Jamison, Robert W. *
Jones, James Moffet, Jr. **
Kebort, James Arthur *
Kowack, Frank J. **
Lavern, Rufus L. **
Leonard, Maurice Robert
McCarthey, Francis Joseph
McCutcheon, Ira Andrew
Merfeld, Jack Alvin
Mucker, Clifford Woodrow **
Nagle, Clair Joseph **
Pagnano, Joseph Anthony *
Parker, James N. *
Righter, William Joseph
Sawed, Harold Richard
Scunziano, George Edward *
Slocum, Robert
Starkey, Donald Ray *
Stephens, Robert E. * LT(jg), Armed Guard
commanding officer
Wagner, Edgar K. *
Wahlin, Oscar Harry **
Watson, Warren Herbert
Williams, Thomas Clifford
* First voyage only
** Second voyage only
All others on both voyages
SS JOSEPH HOOKER
Arriving New York 20 June 1945 from Le Havre, France
Bellus, Benjamin J.
Bowen, Thomas A.
Bradken, Melvin R.
Brady, Thomas F.
Buckley, William J.
Charest, Roland J.
Condon, William D.
Connors, William J.
De Joseph, Patrick
Dean, Paul B.
Dillon, Berry L. LT, Armed Guard commanding
officer
Doty, Everett E.
Fariello, James P.
Herwig, Theodore R.
Hobbs, Ottie M.
Hull, George C.
Kardos, Ernest S.
Knott, Charles
Leader, Harold F.
Leatherman, C. R.
Lewis, Randolph E.
Lomb, Francis D.
Mackay, Alexander G.
McAfee, Gordon C.
McHugh, Joseph R.
Newbaugh, Karl S.
Poe, John N.
Rafferty, G. H.
Raley, Herman E.
Reilly, John P.
Skrzypic, Lawrence J.
Sundin, Carlton LT, Armed Guard officer
Tamulonis, Albert J.
Vernon, Thomas N.
Walker, Douglas A.
Watkins, Marvin E.
Woytowicz, John Zachary
Wucniski (or Wochiski), Gene A.
Note: some names were difficult to read due to poor-quality original
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