My dad served as a a supply officer (Lieutenant JG) on the USS Loesser-DE680 during WWII. Following a shakedown cruise off Bermuda, the new destroyer escort departed from Norfolk on December 11, 1943, for Pearl Harbor. Over a 21-month period, it sailed to Funafuti, Ellice Islands; Guadalcanal; Efate, New Hebrides; Espirito Santo; Solomon Islands; Sydney; [...]
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Bertram Bruce (my father) in the South Pacific
Posted in life events, travel on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »