My father, William B. Merritt, served as an armed guard aboard the George S Boutwell, 514. He is not listed on your page but could you please put his name there?
I'm not clear on where you would like to have your father included on the Armed Guard website. If you are speaking of a page such as http://armed-guard.com/mmmm.html, that and similar pages are not meant to list all Armed Guard personnel. (So far as I know there is no master list of Armed Guard sailors and officers, at least not online.) Rather these pages list individuals who are or were members of the U.S.N. Armed Guard World War II Veterans Association. The Veterans Association began long after the end of the war and only a small fraction of all Armed Guard veterans have ever joined the Association or even known of its existence. If your father is still living he is welcome to join the Veterans Association. See http://armed-guard.com/association.html for information.
However, if your father is deceased, I would be happy to prepare an Honor Page for him. For that I would need some biographical information and ideally "then" and "later" photographs. See http://armed-guard.com/honorpgs.html for links to existing Honor Pages so that you can see what a Honor Page looks like. Having an Honor Page would be more of, well, an honor than simply to be listed by name on a single page.
Let me know what you would like.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website www.armed-guard.com
Thanks. My father died in November 1995, so yes, please make an honor page for him.
William B. Merritt US Navy - Armed Guard served aboard SS George S. Boutwell, Pacific Theatre. Saipan, Phillipines
After the war "Bill" returned to West Virginia and worked in the coal mines, ran a gas station in the town of Alderson before becoming an electrician. Bill then worked along the East coast including Washington DC, working at the White house during its renovation in the early 1950s. He eventually worked in Portsmouth, Ohio at steel mills and coke ovens being constructed there in the area, where he met and married Jean in 1955. They then moved to Dayton, Ohio where Bill worked as an electrician until retiring in 1981. William Merritt died in November, 1995.
Please contact Tracy Merritt at the following email: tracerm@live.com