 World
War II
Lt JG Hugh Dale Hamilton
US NAVY
USS SAVANNAH (CL-42)
Serial No.
O-165476
5 Jun 1919- 11 Sep 1943
1930 Census
They lived in Dorchester
Father -Ross L Hamilton (Robert Lee) ,
Mother- Mary Alta Hamilton
Hugh was 11.
Siblings - Clarke and Ruth
1940 Census
Hugh was 20
He was in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland.
He had lived in Dorchester in 1935.
He was in Bancroft Hall 3rd Batt
Midshipman in the US Navy.
He had completed 1 yr of college.
At the time if his death his Father, Robert
Lee Hamilton was living in
Denton, TX
Commissioned in the United States Naval
Academy. He had graduated in 1943,
Midshipman
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The USS Savannah was Support to the
Invasion
at Sicily at Salerno, and was protecting
soldiers landing crafts on the beaches
of Sicily. The ship was hit by a Fritz X
radio guided bomb. Two hundred crew
members were killed. More were
injured and many trapped in the wreckage
for 60 hours.
The wreckage was repaired and the ship
rejoined the war in 1945.
Photographs
of that attack and its aftermath
The Ship when it was hit
by the bomb.
He
as buried at sea that day.
He is Memorialized on the Tablets
of the Missing,
Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Nettuno, Italy
And Memorialized at Arlington
National Cemetery
And Memorialized at
West Hill Cemetery in Sherman.
His Parents are buried in West Hill
Cemetery.
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