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Post By Gene Holtmeyer on Memorial Day 2007

Now I remember EXACTLY why I went into the Navy during WWII. I always had a bed (sort of) I always had food and I never had anyone shooting at only me only. At Palau we had to worry about them firing at the ship from shore. At Okinawa it was the Kamakazi pilots diving into our ships. One dove into the ship next to us one night so they came close. I had made up my mind that I was going to die there at age 20 or if not there when we hit Japan in September or October . We had 1,000 ships ships in the harbor for that purpose. Suddenly they found that the Air Craft Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers etc were at the other end of the harbor and went after them as they were the ones that was going.to cause them the big problems as we all would have sat offshore and bombarded them. Many bleeding heart thought it as terrible that we dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima which killed 200,000 a lot of which was women and chi ldren but I say to them Sorry but you are the ones who started the war when you bombed Pearle Harbor on 12/7/1941 when I was 16 years old. So I did not go into the service until 4/10/43 at 18. "Thank GOD for the bomb for the A bomb as not another Japanese or American service men was killed after that." What griped me was that nobody talks about the 200,000 men they lost on Okinawa obviously the men did not matter.We lost 50,000 there alone. I only lost one friend and that was at Iwo Jima a Marine. I thank GOD that my son did not have to go into the service. He turned 18 during a quite time.

It took me about 6 months to get thru my about 6 weeks of boot camp in San Diego. After a month I came down with Spinal Meningitus and was in the hospital 28 days. One beautiful young nurse took a liking to me and she would spend time talking with me and I was the only one she would give rub downs to. I am sure all the other guys hated me but who cares. One day she said "How old are you? I should have realize that was coming but how experieced is an 18 year old.I had to think quickly and I thought about saying 22 as I never had problems for passing for more than 18. I am still kicking myself that I did not say 22 as I would have loved to see where that relationship would have gone. I always had trouble lying however.When I said 18 she said "Oh I thought you were about 24." I never saw her again. I received a 38 day recuperation leave. So that alone accounted for 66 days of boot camp.

Then home on a 38 day leave. Went back and finished boot camp and was sent home on an 11 day leave. (I was schudled to go aborad a cargo ships as a 20mm gunner when I got back). On the last day I came down with Pneumonia and went into Ellington Field Air Force Hospital for 16 days. Word spread over the base that there was a ssick ailor there. So I became a side show exhibit so to speak (which I did not mind at all) and in fact seveal of them brought me boxes of candy. One reason was the the closest Naval base was in New Orleans and we were just outside of Houston. So many had never seen a sailor.

One day Mitse Gaynor who played the lead in the movie South Pacific came there to entiretain the troops. Woundn't you know she stopped at the end of my bed and sang a love song looking right into my eyes. I could feel my fact turning red but I stood it a long time and finally pulled the covers over my head. The doctor said "I am keeping you here at home for another 15 days of recuperation. Many people were saying "What - are you home again?"

I finally went back to San Diego and to Balboa Park, a shipping out place. They have my Pay records so I am getting paid but they could not find my other records ship so they could ship me out until they found them. So I was there for perhaps 6 months and was put incharge of the garbage locker. I did strictly supervisory work and I had two helpers. I went from 165 pounds to 190 as I had access to the food. So now they sent me to Miami where I went throught six weeks of training for small craft school but low and behold now that the have my personel records, they have lost my pay records. I had to write home for money as I was not getting paid. They did not know what to do with me so they sent be through the small craft school again for another 6 weeks. At Miami I was a catcher on the Station soft ball team and I had made the Station basketball team about the time I got shipped out.
They finally found them so it was then that I picked up my ship in New Orleans. If we stop to figure it out I went in on 4/10/43 and I picked up my ship on 1/2/45.

Half of us picked out ship up at New Orleans on 1/2/45 and I kept a diary of every day until I left the ship to go home on 11/23/45 and It is on the Internet but it is pretty boring since we saw very little action until toward the end of the war.

My first two years were a ball and "Yes I had a girl in every port which is expected. " Three of us were walking down the sidewalk in Miami Beach and three girls passed us going the other way. One was gorgeous and I just had to have a date with her. I was bashful but the other two were worse than me. So I said "Come on Guys" and we followed them into the icecream parlor. Turns out she worked for MGM and they were down there making "PT Boat" staring John Wayne. I had six dates with her and got shipped out to New Orleans.

At New Orleans we went down on Bourbon Street and there was drunken sailor giving a girl a hard time on the dance floor. I cut in and she thanked me profusely. We danced together for 2 or 3 hours when I had to be back to the ship by 10. She invited my out to her abode Sunday for a chicken dinner. We got shipped out Saturday on our way back to Maimi. In Miami I found another nice girl, had two dates, got shipped to the South Pacific.

I am currently in touch with two men from my ship who are also still alive and one of them put my diary, which I had typed out, on the Intenet. I am not sure how to reach it but I am sure it is under PGM-31.

02-09-2007 Post By Ginger Haywood

02-09-2007-Post By Ginger Haywood

Hi Bill,

I wanted to thank you so much for putting my email and pictures on your site. It's wonderful thing that you have done, thank you so much, it has given me an avenue for questions that I had with no answers, and that is a great thing. And Gene has been a wonderful help, telling me stories of things that happened aboard ship.

I am including another picture. Click for enlargement It's another puzzle, maybe you can help. Here is a picture I found with my Dad's stuff. I know which one he is in the picture, as you look at the picture, he is the one with hat on on left side down in front of the railing, hat a little tilted. Some of the other guys look familiar from other pictures but I thought that maybe you could tell me approx when and where this was taken, and some other names. " It looks like a day off. " I have tried to clean this up as much as possible but it was really in bad shape. I have left it pretty big so that you can see it, I hope that it comes through that way. I sent a copy of this to Gene and I am going to print out one and send to Frank Kamer also. I am also sending Frank a copy of the picture of you and he in Hawaii.
Again thank you,

Gin

03-06-2007 Post By Gene Holymeyer

I don't know if you were topside or not when we pulled into Okinawa but there was a PGM that had gone aground. I searching it a little further I found that it said the 10 had gone aground there. They later got it unstuck and I am sure it was with us when we were following the Minesweepers.

Speaking of which three of us had gone ashore on leave on one of the islands and either we missed the boat to take us back to the 31 or it never came. So we rode out with one from one of the minesweepers. They said "My GOD it looks like you are sitting right on top of the mines when you explode them. I said we are and thus far two guys have taken shrapnel on the bridge, and another one was hit. And a half a mine lit on our deck heading straight at me and I do mean straight. I just had time enough to jump big time behind the tower of the Twin 40s. I thought for sure I was a goner.

They gave us each a life jacket to use for a pillow and we slept on the fantail. About 10PM (in case you have forgotten that is 2200 hours) all hell broke loose, 20 mm, pyrotecnics, searchlights etc. celebrating the news that the war was over however that was not quite right. Would you believe it, I don't remember how we got back to the ship.

02/20/2007 Post By Ryan Galentine

e-Mail to Gene Holtmeyer on 2/20/2007

Hi Gene: I got this in my mail box this morning!! Another member found. I remember him and nelson too.

Hello, may name is Ryan Galentine and I am currently enlisted as an Electricians Mate Third class in the US Navy. While researching my grandfathers former ship, I ran across your web site. He has been very eager to speak with some of his old shipmates and asked me to send you these pictures. His Name is Frank Kamer 2239 Suncrest DR. Columbus Ohio 43223. Phone # 614-274-6872. If you have any questions or need to contact me please fell free. Ryan Galentine Ph# 614-354-6892 rgalentine@yahoo.com thank you an dwe both look foreward to hearing from you.

Ryan sent pictures. Here is one of them. I will post the rest on the PGM 31 site;

02-20-2007 Post By Bill Borough

Hi Mike: I got your e-mail. It was good to hear from you. On the PGM 31 site we have a ships blog and is where we add all e-mails and stuff that we receive. Gene Holtmeyer an other crew member has you dad listed there as a crew member. you have to scroll down a way to get to it. Till us about your father. What did he do? Where did he live? Any sea stories? Do you have a pictures you could sent to us to put up on the site.

Bill Borough

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02-19-2007 Post By Michael Dziovgo

Hi Bill....my father married my Mom Helen Solar from W.Va April 12,1947.....they met in night school in the Bronx......kids as follows...Joe Jr. 03/02/47 (USMC Vietnam Vet),Elizabeth 09/03/49,Me 01/10/54, Edward 09/14/61..........we lived in Somerville NJ in our first house from 1961-1986....Dad was a draftsman (furniture) which he loved to do....he got colon cancer in 1984, retired to a brand new house with my mother in Fountain Hills, Arizona in 1986...The cancer came back and spread to his liver...sadly my father passed away in Somerville NJ at the young age of 61 on 10/13/88........he was buried in the Bronx but about 10 yrs ago my Mom had him moved to Piscataway NJ where I live........ my Mom will be 79 in 2 wks and she lives in a nice retirement village about an hour from me.......my father and the rest of our family were so proud of what he and the rest of you servicemen and women did........you truly were THE GREATEST GENERATION...I'll send you some real good pictures this weekend.........God bless Michael

02-02-2007 Post By Gene Holtmeyer

e Mail from Gene Holtmeyer to Ginger O'Connor Heywood

Bill Borough forwarded your email to me. Bill served below deck in the engine room so very seldom saw the light of day much less know your grandfather but I had a closer contact with your him since he was a Petty Officer and told me what to do and where to go (I'm kidding). He was a nice guy. I cannot tell you much about him personally since they did not associate with enlisted men. I will show you that what he saw was not too exciting. If they had to depend upon us to win the war we would be speaking Japanese today.

For you land lubbers I will not use the term Starboard or Port sides of the ship (left and right) or bulkhead (wall) or any other foreign language. I think my spellchecker just wants me to think it knows how to spell Starboard etc.

First I don’t know about Tom but while I had a girl in every port my love life was for the pits. Three of us were walking down the street in Miami Beach when three girls passed up going the other way and one was gorgeous and I just had to have a date with her. So I said “come on guys” and we bought their ice cream in the parlor. I had five dates with her and got shipped out to New Orleans to pick up the PGM-31. The first night there I went down on Bourbon Street and I saw a drunken sailor giving a girl problems on the dance floor. I cut in and we danced solid for 2 or 3 hours but I had to get back to the ship by 10. She invited me out to her apartment Sunday for a chicken dinner. We shipped out for Miami on Saturday. I met another girl in Miami (the other one had gone home to Tennessee) had three dates with her and got shipped out. Keep this in mind as you read about life aboard ship. I had another one earlier in San Diego but tha t is another story. From this you would never know that I was very shy. I was only 19 years old. All three of those girls no doubt thought that I had stood them up. The motto in those days was "loose lips sink ships" so we never knew until almost the last minute when we were leaving.

I kept a diary from the day we picked up the ship in New Orleans on 1/2/45 until I left the ship in Japan to come home on 11/22/45. Speaking of Japan, after the war we operated out of Sasebo, Japan

I recently went through it and listed the highlights but for some reason it does not come up. I decided to write it so you could live with us vicariously. So here goes, we left New Orleans on 1/28 headed for Miami. When we left the Mississippi River and hit the ocean I remember thinking "Boy are you stupid. What are you doing in the Navy when you sometimes haven't felt too good in a swing. The reason I went into the Navy was I liked the idea of eating, sleeping and not having to hike long distances. Funny thing I never did get sea sick but every time I felt like I might I ate a piece of bread that did the trick.

We arrive at Miami on 2/1 and it was so rough it was tough to keep food on the table so we served it cafeteria style. The guy in front of me made a dash for the table on the right side of the ship but did not make it. The floor was all wet from everybody coming down. He lit on his rear and went sliding by me with his coffee in the air in one hand and his food in the other and hit the wall on the other side of the ship. I waited a roll to the right and made a dash for the same spot, slammed my tray on the table and hung on to the table. When the ship rolled back I sat down.

2/22 We left for the Panama Canal at 10:00pm. Past CUBA on 2/24. On 2/25 it really got rough. I normally would be on the helm (steering wheel), then lookout on the bridge and then radar 30 minutes at each place for four hours i.e. if we were on duty from noon to 4 then we were also on from 12 to 4am etc. If you got seasick you did not stay in bed and my two relief guys were laying motionless on the pilot house floor. I had to be on the helm the entire 4 hours time and we had 16 guys on our watch and guess who were the only ones not sick besides me, the Quartermaster and a fellow by the name of Tom O'Connor who lived at 1733 Kiralfre (it looks like) Pittsburgh, PA. we all three stayed in the pilot house the entire watch and every hour either Tom or O'Donnell would relieve me on the helm so I could go get some coffee. So we had three Irishmen running things as my mother was Ma ry Ryan so am half Irish. Whenever I felt like I might get seasick I would eat a piece of bread and I never got seasick.

3/1 We spent the entire day going through the Panama Canal. We would enter a lock then two more and they would close each one and fill it with water and we pulled into the next one. That was really beautiful it was like going through a jungle on a river. The canal was the same height as the ocean on the other side so we simply pulled out. The ocean on the Pacific side was smooth and we pulled into San Diego on 3/10 and left for Hawaii on 3/13 and pulled into Pearl Harbor on 3/21. Everything that was sunk on 12/7/41 was still there. Left Pearl Harbor on 3/31 and on 4/5 from midnight to noon it was the 5th and from noon on it was the 6th as we had passed the 180th meridian so time changed. Being a wise guy in those days I wrote in my diary that this morning this afternoon was tomorrow and this afternoon this morning was yesterday.

4/10 We pulled into Eniwetok and there must have been about 300 ships there. It was a barren island except for a few palm trees. We went ashore. This is the island they used to test the atomic bomb later.

4/17 we arrived at Ulithe in the Caroline Islands and the next day 4/18 we went swimming over the side. Two guys threw another one overboard and he was floundering hollering help, help I can't swim so the other two dove in to save him whereupon he swam over and climbed out. So he had the last laugh. They were all dressed in their work cloths and shoes. We went swimming over the side of the ship on one day and the next day a big shark came swimming by that spot.

We heard that some Jap planes were shot down in our area today so this was our first taste of war so to speak.

4/19 We left for Palau Islands today and on 4/20 and about 1,000 yards from us on an island there are about 10,000 Jap's however we control them as we owned 5% of the island at both the top and bottom plus we controlled the air and sea. We bombarded the island on 4/23 We wiped out a Jap lookout post with our twin 40mm.

4/27 At the spot where we wiped out the lookout post the PGM 29 was greeted with rifle and mortar fine. Our instructions were to wipe out their three radio towers. We sat out about a mile and the ship was rocking big time. Not only did we not hit any of the towers but I only saw one shell hit the island which wiped out their barracks - big deal. We fired 97 rounds of 3" which means the shells were 3' wide. I had nothing to do with it. 4/28 We loaded 96 more shells of 3" last and went back to the same spot. Just was we fired out first shell a 5" shell lit right off our bow. We knew they only had three five inch guns to protect the entire island. The skipper would normally say all ahead 1/3rd the all ahead 2/3rd and finally all ahead full very slowly. This time it was that as fast and he could talk and then added all ahead flank.

4/29 I sank a floating mine with my 20mm 4/30 we heard that Germany had surrendered.

5/1 We were firing individually and 3 Japs broke for a cave. I put 50 of my 60 round capacity right in the mouth of the cave. At the time I hoped I had killed all three but in later years I hope I didn't. The other remaining Officer alive today was Lt.jg Prewee. He sent the word down "fantastic firing Holtmeyer" then he came down. I told him I had taken my front sights off of my gun to straighten it just before we went to GQ so I was firing using tracer bullets only. (this allowed us to see exactly where our bullets were going.) The next day he ordered all the front sights off of the other 20mms. The 20 is the gun you see in the movies where they are strapped in and shooting at planes.

5/4 Three if us went ashore on liberty and without guns. We found everything from Jap money, to Jap bones, guns, ammunition in a place called Hells Pocket. I picked up a Jap helmet for a souvenir but a skull fell out so I dropped it. I brought back a rifle which I lost in San Francisco when I turned my back for a moment.

The Captain went ashore most of the day and they signaled out that we had better move as the tide is going out and we are anchored over a reef. Nobody did anything and the next thing you know we are bouncing off the reef so it bent our screws (propellers) and we had to go back to Ulithi to get them fixed. Guess what because of that we were not in on the invasion of Okinawa. Which did not make me mad because we could get shot there. It was so obvious the it was done on purpose. Our Executive Officer should had been court marshaled. 5/8 arrived back in Ulithi and we were not ready to leave for Okinawa until 5/23 and we were in a convoy of other small ships.

5/27 Sighted a Jap Cruiser and 3 Destroyers we split up and it was every ship for itself. We also learned that our Task Force 5 was only five miles from us so they took on the Jap ships.

5/29 Arrived at Okinawa and we spotted another PGM which was grounded ashore. A Destroyer was towed in by a Tug Boat with a big hole in its fantail (rear).

8/4 I don't think I will go into the details except to say that the Jap Kamikaze pilots flew over every night
and dove into our ships. We were going to GQ 5 to 7 times a night. I was strapped into my gun most of the nights however we laid out smoke pots and I doubt they could see us and we could not see them. I was so tired one night that I took off my helmet sat on it, leaned against a wall and went to sleep. I had a loader for my 20mm so told him to wake me if there was any action. Since it was difficult for them to see us they found that our big ships were in the other end of the harbor so they started going after them. We had 1,000 ships in the harbor as we were due to bombard Japan in either September or October in preparation for the invasion.

Our job out there was to follow the Minesweepers. They had a wire going out to each side and a gismo that held them at about a 35 to 45 degree angle from their fantail (rear). The mines were anchored by a wire not too far below the surface of the water they would cut the wire and it would pop to the surface and then we would either blow them up or sink them. By the time I left the ship on 11/22 we had destroyed 315 mines. Here was another thing that galled me, I was just turning 21 and to begin with we would fire the 20s at them in short bursts at the mines and explode them and that is the way we should have kept it but no we moved closer and shot them with our 50 caliber. Then we moved to somewhere between 25 and 50 yards and did it with a rifle. As a result, two guys were hit with shrapnel on the bridge, another guy was also hit and I was standing by my gun a half of a mine which was at least 2 to 3 fe et wide landed on the deck and was headed straight at me. I just had time to jump out of the way or I would have been killed. It is funny how far you can jump if you are scared. I think I might have broken the world jump record with that jump.

8/5 We heard that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki today which killed at least 200,000 civilians. Later some bleeding hearts thought that was terrible. The way I look at it is they killed civilians at Pearl Harbor when they started the war. All is fair in love and war. Nobody has ever said that it was terrible that we killed 200,000 Japs at Okinawa and how about the 50,000 men we lost. It was the bloodiest battle of the South Pacific. I also look at it that not another American was killed after that. If you had told me that someday I would be driving a Toyoto Camry, at that time I would have thought you were out of your mind.

8/9 We heard that Russia had declared war on Japan today.

8/10 Here it is word for word from my diary. "We got liberty today. Our boat did not pick us up so we spent the night on the fantail of a minesweeper with life jackets for pillows. At 2200 hours (10pm) we heard the war was over and what a display followed from every island and all the ships in the harbor: 50 caliber, pyrotechnics, anti aircraft fire and searchlights all blending together to make the most welcome and beautiful spectacle I have ever seen." Imagine going to a fireworks display but it being 20 or 30 times bigger than they are.

8/11 we heard it was not over and the next day was completely unbelievable.

8/12 Today we are leaving for an operation which makes no sense whatsoever. Tomorrow we are heading up toward Japan and we are told that we expect to lose 25 ships. How stupid can we be? For all intents and purposes the war it over.

8/13 Today is my birthday and I turned 21. We had heavy air cover with many Corsairs flying above us for protection. As it turned out the Japs were more intelligent than we are and did not come out so it was a piece of cake.

One other important item. We heard that we had dropped the atomic bomb on both Nagasaki and
Hiroshima .Three of us went ashore on liberty again and we missed our ride back to our ship so we managed to get a ride to a Minesweeper. They gave us lifejackets for a pillow and we slept on the deck.

I turned 21 on 8/13 and the war ended on 8/14 over there so I had a reason to celebrate. Unfortunately I did not have anything to celebrate with. I remember they gave us 2 bottle of beer each one time so I save them up thinking I would perhaps feel not pain. I drank two cans got full and gave the other four away.

I am sorry I cannot tell you more about Tom but at least you know he was well thought of and what one year of his life was like.

We later operated out of Sasebo, Japan after the war and we were still going mine sweeping. We went ashore on liberty one day and all the other guys headed for the nearest bar. I have always looked the town over first no matter when it was. At the time I was Catholic and I headed for the Catholic church. I took my shoes off and stuck them on the rack. Inside the Alter looked just like any church in the USA. The big difference was that where we have seats they have a huge strawmat covering the floor with an isle down both sides and up the middle just like our churchs. I had wanted to buy some things for my family and girl but all they had our was old dishes. I figured that thought that perhaps we would just take what we wanted. I was in a suburb and I had been flipping my wrist like I was fanning myelf with an accordian fan. Everybody either smiled or laughed. Finally some young girl realize what I wanted and went in th e house and got one for me and would not take any money. Her folks were sitting on the front porch and today I am kicking myself that I did not find out if they spoke English so I could find out how the fared during the war.

02/18/2007 Post By Michael Dziowgo

Recieved form-mail from PGM 31 Contact Page

From: "Michael Dziowgo"

Reply-To: "Michael Dziowgo"

To: bill@boroweb.Com

Subject: Feedback Form

Owner_email = bill@boroweb.Com

User_name = Michael Dziowgo

Address = 122 Dunellen Avenue Piscataway N.J. 08854

Phone = 732-356-6940(H) 732-512-8605(cell)

User_email = Mikejovgo@aol.com

Request = My father Joseph Dziowgo was a S 1/c on the USS PGM 31

01-23-2007 Post By Ginger O'Connor Heywood

E-Mail Recieved

Mr. Borough,

My name is Ginger O'Connor Heywood, my father was Thomas J. O'Connor who was stationed on the USS PGM 31. My father is the sailor on the right-hand end of the picture from Ryan Galentine, pertaining to his Grandfather Frank Kamer. I don't have too many pictures of my Dad from that time, but I do have some, including the one on your website, and I do not know when they were taken or where, or who the other men in the pictures are. (Please ignore the captions on the pictures, my Mother gave me those after my Father had passed away.)

I am enclosing a few of the pictures that I have, maybe someone can tell me who the other men in the pictures are. I am also enclosing a picture of my parents when they got remarried on Sept. 9, 2001, almost 62 years after their first wedding.

My father passed away on July 4, 2002, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He spent his life from 1937 until 1962 in the US Navy, and then the next 10 years working for the Navy in San Diego. He would never talk about the WW II years, and unfortunatey it has taken me this long to sit down and take a complete inventory of all the paperwork that he had. I found his card from the Sacred Order of The Golden Dragon from April 5, 1945, (I am going through all of his papers doing a scrapbook of his life), so I wanted a picture of the PGM 31, which is what brought me to this site.

Any information would be greatly appreciated. My telephone number is 828-453-7509 or cellphone 828-980-3186 and my email address is
heywoodj@bellsouth.net.

01-23-2007 1:16 AM Post By Ginger Haywood

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01-30-2007 Post By Gene Holtmeyer

I found a deal on the Navy listing 438 people who served so I joined to make 439. None of our shipmates were listed. I wonder if any are still alive. To find it go on the Internet and loost for
Together We Served.

2-20-2006 Post By Bill Borough

e-mail sent to Ryan Galentine.

Hi Ryan: Many thanks for you contacting me. I recognized your grandfather in the pictures you sent. On the personel pictures link of the PGM 31 website in a picture of your grandfather and me standing by a surfboard at Wakakee Beach ( See Below ). I will post some of the pictures you sent on the PGM 31 website soon.

I was an Em 3rd class too in ww II

Where are you stationed?

Who is Kasey Galentine?

Dose you Frank Kamer have an e-mail address?

This makes 4 persons That we know of that was in the crew of PGM 31.

Bill Borough	bill@boroweb.com
Gene Holtmeyer	g.holtmeyer@comcast.net
Donald E. PRIEWE	Ens. (D) Gunnery Offices
Frank Kamer	Columbus Ohio

02-21- 2006 Post By Betty Wood

Subject: Feedback Form

Owner_email = bill@boroweb.Com

User_name = Betty Wood

Address = 2 Badger Court Novato, CA

User_email = woodlerchin@yahoo.com

Request = Wondering how I might get info on my father's ship: PGM 11. He too served in the Navy but rarely spoke about it. I have since learned that he "saw action" . He was a pharmacists mate first class. Where might I go to get more info on his ship and any men remaining? Thanks so very much. Betty Wood 415-382-0533

12-06-2005 Post By Bill Borough

e-Mail on Dec 4th 2005

Hi Robert: I only thing I can do is put a notice on the PGM 31 home page stating that you are looking for shipmates who were onboard PGM 31 in the Bikini atom bomb test. You can't tell someone might find it and reply.

Another thing you can do is go to the archives 2 in Washington DC ( the one in Collage Park Maryland) and go thru the PGM's log. That's what I did. There are 5 log books there! I read in the log that the ship was in the Bikini test. It's duty was to that water samples for radiation. Were you in the Navy and on PGM 31 at Bikini? How did you find the website?

Bill Borough