I served on the Hilary A Herbert as chief radio officer in 1945-46. Back in the Mediterranean during the invasion of Southern France,I aerved on a different shipthat took a load of ammunition and gasoline in 5 gallon Jerry cans which we unloaded at a beach. A solid week of no smoking on board and three full 24 hr days of US Army stevedores unloading the cargo. No attacks this time only cannon fire from the land. After the war when I served on the Herbert we lost our screw way oput in the North Atlantic in 1946 and hadshe to be towed in again, this time to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The shaft just broke in two and it showed rust in it interior, and the failure was attributed to a probable result of its beaching during Aznio
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