Support ship… (fwd)
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:46:27 +0200
>To: mahan@microwrks.com, wwii-l@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu, >marhst-l@post.queensu.ca
>Subject: Support ship… (fwd)
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>From: BWV_WIESBADEN@t-online.de (Tim Lanzendoerfer)
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>Another request from the webpages…I wonder how I can build a >webpage and not
>be able to help with these requests…as an aside, does anybody know >why Jane’s
>”Warships of World War II” does not list the Virgo?
>
> > Dear Tim,
> > I am trying to do some research for my daughter-in-law. Her > father John
> > Saling (now deceased) served on board the USS VIRGO AE30,
> > we have been told that it was a supply (support)ship and it carried
> > mainly ammunition. Her dad told her that when he wasn’t cooking he was a
> > “powder monkey”. I have not been able to find out anything on this
> > vessel. We do know that it was eventually decommissioned and scraped but
> > where or when have no idea.
> > Thought that with all of the other interesting things you have found
> > that you may know something or have an idea of where we could find some
> > information.
> > Thank you for your time and consideration of our request.
> > Laura and Michelle
> >
>Tim Lanzendoerfer | “I have just taken on a great
>Amateur Naval Historian | responsibility. I will do my
>Email: BWV_Wiesbaden@t-online.de | utmost to meet it” – Nimitz
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