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To: Honor First who wrote (124721)	11/10/2006 7:24:00 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) of 225578

Wow! Flying General Dewitt around sounds like a great , although potentially dangerous, job. I remember my Dad telling about driving Admiral Newton back and forth to shore at Pearl Harbor in the Admiral's Barge. Dad was the Admiral's orderly picked, I suppose, because he was the sharpest looking Marine on the USS Northampton, which was the Admiral's flagship. She figured in two of Herman Wouk's Novels, "The Winds of War," and "War and Remembrance." She was notable because she was at sea when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, thus escaping catastrophe. My Dad was already gone, recruiting new Marines in Butte. en.wikipedia.org We have some family artifacts that are probably the only remaining fragments of her that aren't resting on Iron Bottom Sound. She was sunk in the battle of Tassafaronga. Menu from Thanksgiving Dinner Teakwood from her deck, removed in anticipation of war with Japan. My Dad grabbed two chunks of it and we still have both. My Dad's shore pass attached.

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