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Posted by pyrman64
on Sunday, April 21, 2013 6:10 AM
USS Bigelow (DD-942) [June 15, 1972 off Florida]
Named for Water Tender 2nd-Class Elmer Charles Bigelow, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat action on board USS Fletcher (DD-445) during the Corregidor operation, 14 February 1945.
Greg H
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." Gen. Wm T. Sherman (11 April 1880, Columbus, Ohio)
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