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Title: Name this person
Post by: pugg666 on June 28, 2003, 02:40:52 PM

(http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/29252/28.jpg)

bonus points for what ship he's on

Title: Name this person
Post by: pugg666 on June 29, 2003, 01:00:46 PM

no one?

Title: Name this person
Post by: Charon on June 29, 2003, 01:27:29 PM

A retired Bull Halsey on one of the Wisconsin class battleships.

Charon

Title: Name this person
Post by: vatiAH on June 29, 2003, 02:39:15 PM

there is no such thing as a Wisconsin class battleship.    They are Iowa class Battleships.

Title: Name this person
Post by: pugg666 on June 30, 2003, 02:54:02 PM

oh well no one got it.

Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, supposedly onboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57).

anyone know if the S D was ever in the Atlantic?

Title: Name this person
Post by: Rasker on July 02, 2003, 11:41:41 AM

It was built on the east coast, probably would have done initial working up and fitting out there.  It was commissiond in March 1942 and Stark assumed position of CinC Europe in April 1942 which gives the approximate date of the photo. With the onrushing Japanese tide, SoDak went to the Pacific pretty damn fast, you betcha! :)