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Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: brady on April 14, 2003, 07:50:48 PM
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Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: Bullethead on April 14, 2003, 08:39:15 PM
Hmm.  Truman, guys in wheelchairs....  I figure this is an awards ceremony for repatriated former POWs right after the war.  So, ex-POW navy commander getting the CMH......  I'm guessing Dick O'Kane or whatever his name was.  The skipper of the Tang, formerly Mush Morton's XO.  But that's just a guess.  Can't tell if he's got wings or dolphins from the picture.
Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: john9001 on April 14, 2003, 10:35:06 PM
they don't give CMH just to ex-POW's , some people who weren't captured also got the CMH.
Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: brady on April 15, 2003, 05:58:59 PM
Hary S. Truman and Richard H. O'Kane, it is:)

   
    Ya he was the CO of the Tang, and Mush Mortan's XO, in the WaHoo, I scaned the pick off the Back of Clear The Bridge, a great book.
Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: Shiva on April 15, 2003, 06:57:17 PM
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Originally posted by brady
Hary S. Truman and Richard H. O'Kane, it is:)


Nitpick: His name is Harry S Truman. No period. Truman's middle 'name' was 'S', therefore it is not his middle initial, it is his full middle name, and does not get a period.
Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: Bullethead on April 15, 2003, 07:58:05 PM
brady said:
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Hary S. Truman and Richard H. O'Kane, it is:)


Lucky guess based purely on circumstantial evidence.  I've never seen a pic of O'Kane before :).

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I scaned the pick off the Back of Clear The Bridge, a great book.


That's a book I've been meaning to read for years.  I really like reading submarine stories.  The tension and stress of that job just boils off the page.  Salute to all submariners under every flag--those guys really earn their pathetically low pay ;).

Shiva said:
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Nitpick: His name is Harry S Truman. No period. Truman's middle 'name' was 'S', therefore it is not his middle initial, it is his full middle name, and does not get a period.


Strange how common that type of naming was 70-100 years ago.  Lots of my dad's contemporaries (WW2 vets) just had letters for names, anticipating the current fad among rappers :D.

Funny anecdote.  Back in those days, when a guy just had a letter for a name, his paperwork and dogtags reflected the fact by having "(only)" right after the letter instead of a period.  One of my dad's navy buds was named R M Davis, so his paperwork was supposed to read "Davis, R(only) M(only)".  However, the clerk who did his enlistment paperwork forgot the parentheses, so the navy officially called him Ronly Monly Davis.  And so he spent the duration of the war trying to get that straightened out, because it screwed up his mail, his pay, etc.
Title: Name This...(482)
Post by: brady on April 15, 2003, 08:05:43 PM
Clear the Bridge is one of my favorate's, I read it 4 times before I could bring myself to read the last chapter.

 Thunder Bellow by Buckely,  is another good one, and O'Kanes last book on the WaHoo is a good one too.