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<DIV><FONT size=2>My cousin was 2nd in command of a LST sent from Hawaii
to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>the Phillipines. The squadron was in a typhoon for 3
days,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>and wound up several hundred miles off course. The
records</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>show some men actually repaired engines while in the
worst</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>part of that storm. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=dorothy@napanet.net href="mailto:dorothy@napanet.net">Dorothy
Wogh</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:45
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Pacific
Typhoon</DIV>
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<DIV>My husband was on a LST during that hurricane. That must have been
some storm from the way he talked and the way you tell it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dorothy Wogh</DIV>
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<A title=DAVIESW739@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Pacific
Typhoon</DIV>
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<DIV>One time coming back from Hawaii we were in a storm taking 40 degree
rolls. We were sitting in the boat shop some on a wall bench made of
1/4 in stell and loaded with engine parts.. Three of us were leaning against
and engine with our ft. against the bench when it broke loose from the
wall. A friend of mine and me were on the outside and jumped
clear as the bench hit the engine a new kid who had just came aboard was
caught in the middle and squashed down to about 4 in. We pulled him
out as the ship rolled back and just in time as the bench rolled over and
cut every thing to the block of the engine.. Had we not pulled him clear he
would have come out in 2 pieces. </DIV>
<DIV>He was passed over to an APA that was faster than us and they took him
into San Diego a couple of days before we got there. I never saw or
heard of him again always wondered what happened to him.</DIV>
<DIV>On that same trip a D-8 Cat broke loose in the well deck and they had
to used big timbers to get it wedged against one side before going down and
securing it to the deck. </DIV>
<DIV>Yep its a hard life out on those boats. many a Sailor has learned that
the hard way.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>Walt
Davies<BR>Cooper Hollow Farm<BR>Monmouth, OR 97361<BR>503 623-0460
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