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A UNIQUE MEMENTO FROM THE LONGEST DAY The article in the June issue about Pharmacist’s Mate Roger Shoemaker’s D-Day experiences, “ Lasting Impressions of the Longest Day,” brought back many memories of my own D-Day experiences on USS Bates.The “ official despatch” (above) was read to the crews of Destroyer Escort 68 after leaving Plymouth …
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