U.S.S. Walter C. Wann
DE-412
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Ralph Everett Billingsley
Federicksburg, Va.
Enlisted 3 Decemberr 1943
Discharged 23 April 1946 |
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Stationed
Navy Training, Bainbridge, Md.
Houston, Tx. (USS Wann)
Admiralty Islands
Leyte Gulf
Samara
Luzon
Okinawa
He was knocked off the boat during the explosion of the
Mount Hood in the Admiralty Islands. Also splattered by debris during a kamikaze
attack on picket posts during the Okinawa Campaign.
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