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​1944-1950




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​1945 Till 1950

Maine Maritime Museum Pictures

Al Smith RD3  Pictures   1945
  Al was a WWII veteran,RD3, plank Owner on USS Frank Knox DD-742.  He served aboard from 11-1944 through 6 -1946.  AL was part of the "Jammin' Joes" using the radar and jamming equipment to great effect receiving credit for 10 Japanese planes shot down. One narrowly missed FRANK KNOX, crashing into the ship behind the KNOX causing much damage.  
 Helen writes “I’m just so happy for all the priceless photos shipboard. Quite a nono, and my dad was such a law-abiding person. I guess something inside him said
these photos were important to document history. His friends would form a circle, and they would be all be eyes to cover for him….One, two three quick snaps of Halsey, and a camera back down at the speed of light. So cool! He would hold his camera down at his waist and hide it while his friends covered for him.”

 FRANK KNOX also escaped two torpedo attacks.  One attack was a single torpedo from a Submarine hunted by the KNOX.  The second attack was more serious - a spread of three torpedoes from a submarine again hunted by the KNOX. An emergency turn allowed the torpedoes to pass alongside the ship while top side officers and sailors watched anxiously.

A few pictures from Bob O'Kon
Pictures from Catarino Arellanes FN  8-45  9-46​
                       Articles
  • Curtis Burnside YN2
  • The Last Story Irv Eisenberg RM3
  • Swim Call
  • ​The First Riders
  •  Billy Jack Smith  TM1
  • 1944 Gerald HarmsTM1 
  • Ships History, Awards  From C N O  1944-1950  
  • ​1945  First Anniversary
  • 1945  Kamikaze
  • 1945 TYPHOON VIPER SKD1 Bob Beachkovski
  • 1945  Janice&Robert Keller SOM2c
  • ​1946  Ed Ewoldt
  • ​1947  ENS William L. McGonagle
  • 1947 A Tin Can Without Tubes
  • ​1948  Christmas Dinner Tsingtao China
  • 1948 Oct 27 Navy Day Tsingtao China
  • ​​1948 Thanksgiving ​Tsingtao China
  • ​1948  China Report ​of Ships Movement
  • ​1948  William Madden
  • 1949 Thanksgiving
  •  WWII Diary of ​Gerald "Dutch" Harms TM1
  • Equipment we love to hate
  • 1950 Christmas Day 
  • ​Phillip Richard MM-3
  • K-Gun Depth Charge​   
  • Rough Rider Patch  































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