People forget about all the guys who hung around and took care of that sort of thing (to include removing landmines, booby traps, etc) and who sometimes died as these minesweepers did. When I look through my magazines I will post the issue.
Excellent point Todd. You will probably never see a mega-buck Hollywood movie about Minesweepers or USN Armed Guards, who were assigned as gunners on merchant ships in WWII as my Father was, but they were both there, performing hazardous duties for our nation during he war and after.
I did a search on the USS YMS-398 and found a name and email contact for her. I sent him a message over the weekend but haven't received a reply as yet. I don't know how current the contact info is, but if there are any of the crew still living I would like to send them the photos. I am posting one more photo here.The names are all on the flip side.
regards,
Dogdaddy
