Do you see your grandfather’s name on the roster, StoneWall? It seems that at this point Murray is probably at Pearl Harbor for repair of the bomb damage, or else recently returned to action. I see in the history that Murray covered the Army operation at Aitape in New Guinea. My father was there for that one.
My father was on the USS Mississippi BB-41.
He never spoke much about his experiences until a granddaughter related her history lesson from public school about how Americans had made a sneak nuclear attack on the innocent Japanese.
Thereafter, he pulled out memorabilia, and hung a framed document listing those killed on the battleship, among them a chaplain who was his close friend.