Salvator Di Milla, left and
5th Commanding Officer James
Jamison
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Unknown except Fred Carlson on right, 1945
Pic #71
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| After special training at Charleston, the USS Fogg sailed 6 November 1944 to escort a slow towing convoy to England and back. Homeward bound, on 20 December, one of the LSTs in the convoy was torpedoed, and as Fogg began to search for the submarine, she, too, was torpedoed. Several of her men were killed and many wounded, and the ship badly damaged. For two days the crew fought to save their ship, but when on 22 December the stern sheared off, all but a skeleton crew were taken off. These men restored buoyancy, and Fogg reached the Azores in tow the next day. A first attempt to tow her back to the United States failed when bad weather tore away the temporary bulkheads replacing the stern, but she at last arrived at Boston for repairs 9 March 1945. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |
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