The American Merchant Mariners Memorial
New York Harbor
Percentages
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The
United States Merchant Mariner suffered
more casualties than any other American
service during World War II, 1 of every
26 mariners would not return home.
Facing submarines, mines, armed
raiders, destroyers, aircraft,
"kamikaze," and the elements. About
8,300 mariners were killed at sea,
12,000 wounded of whom at least 1,100
died from their wounds, and 663 men and
women were taken prisoner. Some
were blown to death, some incinerated,
some drowned, some froze, and some
starved. Sixty-six died in prison
camps or aboard Japanese ships while
being transported to other camps.
Thirty-one American merchant ships
vanished without a trace to a watery
grave.........
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The Merchant Marines
has a long proud history.
Often overlooked still they were
everywhere, their is even a
memorial to them on Omaha
Beach
because they were there too!
They and the Coast Guard
are often overlooked.
Remember they supplied the War
Corpus Christi-Caller-Times
15 Sep 1943
He signed up in Dallas and so Dallas is his
'hometown' in articles.
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