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The USS Boston in World War II

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Return from NARA, Fill 'er up, and Ulithi

I just returned from the National Archives in College Park Maryland, where I was able to find some really interesting things about the USS Boston. I had three strategic goals, find the rest of the crew members on the Boston that I don’t have, expand the info and picture

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1 and 1217 with 3022 sailors watching :-)

Tonight I have finished entering all the arrivals and departures of all the sailors of CA-69! We have 3,022 sailor records, as of tonight all their arrival and departure information is complete along with all of their promotions! Yeah! So what’s with 1 and 1,217? When I

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April 1st 1946: USS BOSTON in San Francisco

I’ve just finished updating the arrivals and departures for April 1st 1946. In March, the Ship was in San Francisco where Sailors were busy some arriving an most departing. The war officially ended in August, but the Navy needed to move lots of men and supplies around, so some

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The fastest way to a promotion is through Hell

As I’m processing promotions for January 1944 (so far we have over 220 and I’m only half way through the month), I kept processing firemen promotions. Many promotion for firemen came three at a time, one month after the other. So I got curious, I had an image

The Hard Way

April 3, 2010 Dear Dad, Five years ago today, a few minutes before 2 am Pacific Time, you died just the way you lived — The Hard Way. Admitted to the hospital around 6 am on April Fool’s Day, you were in a coma. You faced death just the way

Crew Lists

At the end of the month, I’m planning a trip to the National Archives outside of Washington D.C. to research more information about the USS BOSTON. The archives have the original deck logs, war diaries, photographs, etc. from the USS BOSTON. The preparation has been a little daunting

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PAT FEDELE

Two weeks ago, I had the great fortune to meet Pasquale “Pat” Fedele, CA-69 Boston plank owner, who served on her from pre-Commissioning (June 30, 1943) until post-Occupation Duty (Feb. 28, 1946). Pat was a Coxswain, and in addition to his duties with the L R Division (Lookout and Radar)