Need help identifying this ship, can anyone help? - Page 2

chrisharley9 · 02-06-2008, 06:29 PM

Just put it down to spending too many hours at looking at ship recognition books - Janes blast you

jsd · 03-06-2008, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by chrisharley9

LSD 25 San Marcos USS San Marcos (LSD-25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guys this is great! Thanks so much! One of my older brothers also remembered some details. Grandpa did some engineering/construction work and from what he remembers he was with the Seabees so a LSD would seem to make a lot of sense. He was over there for several years, this ship came into the war later so it may have been only temporary transportation.

Any chance any of you might know how or where to get service records of him and his three brothers? They were in all different branches (one died in the Battle of the Bulge, one served in the Pacific and another in Europe) other than names that's about all I know.

Thanks again for your help! Its nice to put a name to that picture that's been around for so long.

kfz · 03-06-2008, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jsd

Grandpa did some engineering/construction work and from what he remembers he was with the Seabees so a LSD would seem to make a lot of sense. He was over there for several years, this ship came into the war later so it may have been only temporary transportation.

Makes perfect sense, if you read the blurb on Wikipedia its says the boat was used as maintainace depot, You old mans Dad might have been on board longer that you think. Great wartime pic, seems to be very few of them about for such an unusual ships, you should put it on the wiki.

Kev

Gotthard Heinrici · 03-06-2008, 09:51 AM

and she was in service until 1989. Thats not a bad career at all. fantastic looking ship ( I like odd designs!)

03-06-2008, 09:51 AM	#14 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,497	and she was in service until 1989. Thats not a bad career at all. fantastic looking ship ( I like odd designs!) __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

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