I recall him saying that he embarked on MISSIONARY RIDGE for her first trip out of the shipyard, wondering if the trip you described was that one. It may have been the trip where he somehow managed to meet up in Panama with his two brothers Pasco (Pat) and Ralph whose ships also were there at the same time. The JAMES BOWIE in the Pacific in 45 also lines up with where he was at the end of the war. At some point he was on a ship that had to lay over for an extended period in Australia for repairs, the crew apparently had a lot of liberty time to do some traveling there.
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