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To: Homer_J_Simpson

That’s alright. Looks like we used her as a hospital ship during World War II - the Frances Y. Slanger (named for the first US nurse killed in action in WWII. Killed in 1944 - I would have thought some would have been killed prior to that)


8 posted on 01/19/2009 1:31:52 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Killed in 1944 - I would have thought some would have been killed prior to that

Likewise. Like in the Philippines in 1942.

9 posted on 01/19/2009 2:02:49 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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