WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARD Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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Japanese Atrocities - S.S. Jean Nicolet. A JAPANESE ATROCITY ON THE HIGH SEAS. The horrible ordeal of the merchant crew, U.S. Naval Armed Guard and passengers on board SS JEAN NICOLET began after being torpedoed on July 2, 1944.

SHIP PICTURES

Passenger ship SS DORCHESTER was torpedoed by German submarine U-223 (Wachter) at 0355 GCT on February 3, 1943, about 150 miles west of Cape Farewell, Greenland, while en route in Convoy SG-19 from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Narsarssuak, Greenland, with 751 passengers and general cargo, lumber, and 60 bags of mail and parcel post. TROOPSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II Selected Troopships of WWII - Scroll down to see total list. Source: Troopships of World War II by Roland W. Charles, published by the Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947 Troop ships for which additional information is available on this website. Acadia

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004 WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARD Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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MOORE - ARMED GUARD

Japanese Atrocities - S.S. Jean Nicolet. A JAPANESE ATROCITY ON THE HIGH SEAS. The horrible ordeal of the merchant crew, U.S. Naval Armed Guard and passengers on board SS JEAN NICOLET began after being torpedoed on July 2, 1944.

SHIP PICTURES

Passenger ship SS DORCHESTER was torpedoed by German submarine U-223 (Wachter) at 0355 GCT on February 3, 1943, about 150 miles west of Cape Farewell, Greenland, while en route in Convoy SG-19 from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Narsarssuak, Greenland, with 751 passengers and general cargo, lumber, and 60 bags of mail and parcel post. TROOPSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II Selected Troopships of WWII - Scroll down to see total list. Source: Troopships of World War II by Roland W. Charles, published by the Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947 Troop ships for which additional information is available on this website. Acadia

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004

SHIPS - ARMED GUARD

American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. WHAT'S NEW | WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD Role of U.S. Navy Armed Guard, role of U.S. merchant marine, casualties during World War II, gunnery training, service with Naval Armed Guard, sea stories, people

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. BROOKLYN ARMED GUARD CENTER 1 Pictures from the US Navy Armed Guard Center 1st Ave and 52nd Street Brooklyn, New York All pictures are Official US Navy Photographs Clarence F. Korker, Jr. was a photographer at the Armed Guard Center from 1943 until the end of 1945.

SHIP PICTURES

The SS Bert McDowell as Navy Repair Ship Hooper Island off the East Coast of the USA in 1945

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004 EIGHTY-THREE DAYS AND FORTY-FIVE YEARS BARRE GAZETTE, February 11, 1988 Eighty-Three Days And Forty-Five Years: Remembering Basil Izzi by Lester Paquin Before he joined the United States Navy in April of 1942, Basil Dom- inic Izzi worked at Chas. G. Allen's foundry on School Street in Barre, and was known for his determination and reserve.

DON MEISSNER

Donald K Meissner. Presentation of information and pictures furnished to us by Donald K Meissner. Don served aboard the SS Lyman Abbott and was wounded in Bari, Italy. WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARD Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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MOORE - ARMED GUARD

Japanese Atrocities - S.S. Jean Nicolet. A JAPANESE ATROCITY ON THE HIGH SEAS. The horrible ordeal of the merchant crew, U.S. Naval Armed Guard and passengers on board SS JEAN NICOLET began after being torpedoed on July 2, 1944.

SHIP PICTURES

Merchant ship explosion after being torpedoed. Collier SS BLACK POINT was torpedoed by German submarine U-853 (Fromsdorf) at 1740 EWT on May 5, 1945, off Point Judith, Rhode Island, while en route to Weymouth, Massachusetts, with a cargo of 7500 tons of coal loaded in Newport News, Virginia. She was sailing unescorted. TROOPSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II Selected Troopships of WWII - Scroll down to see total list. Source: Troopships of World War II by Roland W. Charles, published by the Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947 Troop ships for which additional information is available on this website. Acadia

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004 WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARD Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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MOORE - ARMED GUARD

Japanese Atrocities - S.S. Jean Nicolet. A JAPANESE ATROCITY ON THE HIGH SEAS. The horrible ordeal of the merchant crew, U.S. Naval Armed Guard and passengers on board SS JEAN NICOLET began after being torpedoed on July 2, 1944.

SHIP PICTURES

Merchant ship explosion after being torpedoed. Collier SS BLACK POINT was torpedoed by German submarine U-853 (Fromsdorf) at 1740 EWT on May 5, 1945, off Point Judith, Rhode Island, while en route to Weymouth, Massachusetts, with a cargo of 7500 tons of coal loaded in Newport News, Virginia. She was sailing unescorted. TROOPSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II Selected Troopships of WWII - Scroll down to see total list. Source: Troopships of World War II by Roland W. Charles, published by the Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947 Troop ships for which additional information is available on this website. Acadia

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004

SHIPS - ARMED GUARD

American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. WHAT'S NEW | WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD Role of U.S. Navy Armed Guard, role of U.S. merchant marine, casualties during World War II, gunnery training, service with Naval Armed Guard, sea stories, people

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945. PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson

SS TOPA TOPA

Includes information from "A Careless Word --- A Needless Sinking" by Capt Art Moore and "US Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II" by Robert M Browning Jr. BROOKLYN ARMED GUARD CENTER 1 Pictures from the US Navy Armed Guard Center 1st Ave and 52nd Street Brooklyn, New York All pictures are Official US Navy Photographs Clarence F. Korker, Jr. was a photographer at the Armed Guard Center from 1943 until the end of 1945.

SHIP PICTURES

The SS Bert McDowell as Navy Repair Ship Hooper Island off the East Coast of the USA in 1945

SS BENJAMIN SMITH

Story by Joe Nolen on sinking of SS Benjamin Smith - from the AMMV, St Johns River Chapter, Jacksonville, Florida Newsletter June 2004 EIGHTY-THREE DAYS AND FORTY-FIVE YEARS BARRE GAZETTE, February 11, 1988 Eighty-Three Days And Forty-Five Years: Remembering Basil Izzi by Lester Paquin Before he joined the United States Navy in April of 1942, Basil Dom- inic Izzi worked at Chas. G. Allen's foundry on School Street in Barre, and was known for his determination and reserve.

DON MEISSNER

Donald K Meissner. Presentation of information and pictures furnished to us by Donald K Meissner. Don served aboard the SS Lyman Abbott and was wounded in Bari, Italy. WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIPS - ARMED GUARDLIST OF US MERCHANT SHIPSUS MERCHANT SHIPS American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARDSHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945.

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p ARMED GUARD VETERANS HISTORY VOLUME II PART 2 Crew of the James Fenimore Cooper: C P Smith, Holmes, Segil, Cheslock, De Mezza, Moody, Shirley, White. Crew of the John Murray Forbes, Crew of the Lake Folcroft, Crew of the Klip Fontain, Crew of the James Gunn, Crew of the James Ferguson PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A USAT DORCHESTER FILES NUMBER TWO USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : Click to return to Main Page WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIPS - ARMED GUARDLIST OF US MERCHANT SHIPSUS MERCHANT SHIPS American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARDSHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

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ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945.

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p ARMED GUARD VETERANS HISTORY VOLUME II PART 2 Crew of the James Fenimore Cooper: C P Smith, Holmes, Segil, Cheslock, De Mezza, Moody, Shirley, White. Crew of the John Murray Forbes, Crew of the Lake Folcroft, Crew of the Klip Fontain, Crew of the James Gunn, Crew of the James Ferguson PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A USAT DORCHESTER FILES NUMBER TWO USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : Click to return to Main Page

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945. BROOKLYN ARMED GUARD CENTER 1 Pictures from the US Navy Armed Guard Center 1st Ave and 52nd Street Brooklyn, New York All pictures are Official US Navy Photographs Clarence F. Korker, Jr. was a photographer at the Armed Guard Center from 1943 until the end of 1945.

SHIP PICTURES

The SS Bert McDowell as Navy Repair Ship Hooper Island off the East Coast of the USA in 1945

SHIP PICTURES

Merchant ship explosion after being torpedoed. Collier SS BLACK POINT was torpedoed by German submarine U-853 (Fromsdorf) at 1740 EWT on May 5, 1945, off Point Judith, Rhode Island, while en route to Weymouth, Massachusetts, with a cargo of 7500 tons of coal loaded in Newport News, Virginia. She was sailing unescorted.

DURANDSHIPS

Photo of the C-2 USS Pollux. On February 18, 1942, the 1193-ton U.S. Navy destroyer USS Truxtun and the 6,085-ton U.S. Navy supply ship USS Pollux en route Argentia, Newfoundland from Portland, Maine, ran ashore near Saint Lawrence, Newfoundland, in a snow storm despite having the newly developed and still-secret navigational aid called

radar on board.

SS RAPHAEL SEMMES

SS Raphael Semmes and the SS Explorer - Courtesy Louis Cafiero Rafts from the SS Raphael Semmes: SS Explorer with the rafts SS SINCLAIR RUBILENE SS Sinclair Rubilene. Picture of the SS Sinclair Rubilene and pictures

of some of the crew

FRANK D. NIGRO

In Memory of Frank D. Nigro 1925 - 1943. Seaman 1st Class Frank D. Nigro served well and honorably in the U.S. Naval Armed Guard Service during World War II.

DON MEISSNER

Donald K Meissner. Presentation of information and pictures furnished to us by Donald K Meissner. Don served aboard the SS Lyman Abbott and was wounded in Bari, Italy. WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIPS - ARMED GUARDLIST OF US MERCHANT SHIPSUS MERCHANT SHIPS American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARDSHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

Log.

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945.

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p ARMED GUARD VETERANS HISTORY VOLUME II PART 2 Crew of the James Fenimore Cooper: C P Smith, Holmes, Segil, Cheslock, De Mezza, Moody, Shirley, White. Crew of the John Murray Forbes, Crew of the Lake Folcroft, Crew of the Klip Fontain, Crew of the James Gunn, Crew of the James Ferguson PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A USAT DORCHESTER FILES NUMBER TWO USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : Click to return to Main Page WORLD WAR II US NAVY ARMED GUARD AND WORLD WAR II USABOUT THE ARMED GUARDTHE MENRESOURCESDONATIONSABOUT THE MERCHANT MARINEASSOCIATION The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships SHIPS - ARMED GUARDLIST OF US MERCHANT SHIPSUS MERCHANT SHIPS American Merchant Ships Sunk in WWII Source - A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking by Captain Arthur R. Moore. This table takes a little time to upload but you will be pleased with the information provided about the Merchant Ships of World War II and is well worth the wait. SHIP PICTURES FROM A BOOK An Artist's rendition of the MS Atlantic Sun, shows the scene after a torpedo struck the bow, and another tore the ship apart. The forward section is going down and the aft section, still on an even keel, was later torpedoed and sunk SHOEMAKER - ARMED GUARDSHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASESHOEMAKER CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE Shoemaker Navy Training and Distribution Center. Brown Grass and Rolling Hills Camp Parks Continues its Military Training Mission By Steve Karoly This story is found in No. 4 (Fall 1998) of the Seabee

Log.

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945.

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p ARMED GUARD VETERANS HISTORY VOLUME II PART 2 Crew of the James Fenimore Cooper: C P Smith, Holmes, Segil, Cheslock, De Mezza, Moody, Shirley, White. Crew of the John Murray Forbes, Crew of the Lake Folcroft, Crew of the Klip Fontain, Crew of the James Gunn, Crew of the James Ferguson PICTURES ALPHABETIC K Neil E Keyes - SS Albebaran, SS George Rogers Clark, SS James G Blaine, SS Cartago, SS Marine Wolf, SS General W P Richardson LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME 10 Pictures of Liberty Ships in Peacetime, with original name shown. SS Paul Dunbar SS Sanford B Dole SS Sidney Howard SS Tobias E Stansbury SS William Crompton SS Powellton Seam SS Sewell Seam SS Roda Seam SS Streator Seam SS Henry C Wallace SS Charles G Coutant SS John Sherman SS James I McKay SS George N Drake SS Bartholomew Gosnold SS Walter Kidde SS Clarence Darrow SS Fredric A USAT DORCHESTER FILES NUMBER TWO USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : USAT Dorchester Voyage Prior to Sinking : Click to return to Main Page

ABANDONED CONVOY

Abandoned Convoy by "Ferocious" O'Flaherty You will find a few errors in the OCR conversion but it is worth reading! ALL'S WELL Merchant ships are old to the sea, and old to the p

ARMED GUARD

Liberty Ship Nomenclature This is a listing of the original and completion names of the 2710 Liberty ships built between September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945. BROOKLYN ARMED GUARD CENTER 1 Pictures from the US Navy Armed Guard Center 1st Ave and 52nd Street Brooklyn, New York All pictures are Official US Navy Photographs Clarence F. Korker, Jr. was a photographer at the Armed Guard Center from 1943 until the end of 1945.

SHIP PICTURES

The SS Bert McDowell as Navy Repair Ship Hooper Island off the East Coast of the USA in 1945

SHIP PICTURES

Merchant ship explosion after being torpedoed. Collier SS BLACK POINT was torpedoed by German submarine U-853 (Fromsdorf) at 1740 EWT on May 5, 1945, off Point Judith, Rhode Island, while en route to Weymouth, Massachusetts, with a cargo of 7500 tons of coal loaded in Newport News, Virginia. She was sailing unescorted.

DURANDSHIPS

Photo of the C-2 USS Pollux. On February 18, 1942, the 1193-ton U.S. Navy destroyer USS Truxtun and the 6,085-ton U.S. Navy supply ship USS Pollux en route Argentia, Newfoundland from Portland, Maine, ran ashore near Saint Lawrence, Newfoundland, in a snow storm despite having the newly developed and still-secret navigational aid called

radar on board.

SS RAPHAEL SEMMES

SS Raphael Semmes and the SS Explorer - Courtesy Louis Cafiero Rafts from the SS Raphael Semmes: SS Explorer with the rafts SS SINCLAIR RUBILENE SS Sinclair Rubilene. Picture of the SS Sinclair Rubilene and pictures

of some of the crew

FRANK D. NIGRO

In Memory of Frank D. Nigro 1925 - 1943. Seaman 1st Class Frank D. Nigro served well and honorably in the U.S. Naval Armed Guard Service during World War II.

DON MEISSNER

Donald K Meissner. Presentation of information and pictures furnished to us by Donald K Meissner. Don served aboard the SS Lyman Abbott and was wounded in Bari, Italy. WORLD WAR II U.S. NAVY ARMED GUARD

AND

WORLD WAR II U.S. MERCHANT MARINE In Memory of Tom Bowerman

THE U.S. NAVY

ARMED GUARD

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The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels. Disbanded following the end of the war, the Armed Guard is today little known or remembered by the general public, or even within the Navy. But without the courage and sacrifice of the men of the Armed Guard, victory in World War II would have been much more difficult and taken much longer. The merchant marine is collectively those non-naval ships that carry cargo or passengers or provide maritime services, and the civilian crewmen and officers who sail those ships. During World War II the ships and men of the United States merchant marine transported across the oceans of the world the vast quantities of war materiel, supplies, equipment, and troops needed to fight and win that war. The men of the U.S. merchant marine were civilian volunteers who nonetheless died proportionally in numbers that rivaled or exceeded any branch of the uniformed military. Like the Armed Guard with whom they sailed, the men of the merchant marine made possible the Allied victory in World War II. The Armed Guard and the merchant marine were uniquely dependent upon one another; they were literally in the same boat. One cannot tell the story of one without telling the story of the other. ------------------------- _THIS WEBSITE PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE MEN OF THE ARMED GUARD AND THE MERCHANT MARINE OF WORLD WAR II WHO BRAVELY SAILED TOGETHER INTO HARM'S WAY, AND IN PARTICULAR HONORS THOSE WHO NEVER RETURNED._ ------------------------- The U.S.N. Armed Guard World War II Veterans Association is the official organization of Armed Guard veterans. Armed Guard veterans are invited to join the Association and veterans and their families are encouraged to contact the Association for other information and publications about the Armed Guard. The U.S.N. Armed Guard World War II Veterans Association endorses, encourages and contributes to the Armed Guard website but does not own, control, fund or maintain this website. ------------------------- Be sure to see What's New on this website. ------------------------- This website was founded and for many years was maintained by Thomas R. "Tom" Bowerman of Anniston, Alabama. An Armed Guard veteran, his goal was to honor the men of the Armed Guard and the merchant marine by finding, collecting and bringing together their stories on this website. In that effort he succeeded magnificently. Tom Bowerman died in December 2007. The World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II Merchant Marine website is dedicated to his memory. This website is now owned and maintained by Project Liberty Ship of Baltimore, Maryland. ------------------------- � 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship _This page was last modified:_ 02/11/2014 07:58:02 Contact the Webmaster