Seaman Jack Whiteman kept an album on the ship with photographs of the crew and his family. In a letter dated October 15, 1944 Jack...

August 20, 1943 found a group of officers and men leaving Jacksonville, Florida - starting on new careers and missions......................

The YMS-350, a Yard Class minesweeper, hit a mine and sunk on July 2, 1944. The YMS-304 hit a mine on July 30, 1944. Both sunk in the...

The USS Corry DD-463 was a lead destroyer lost during Operation Overlord on D-Day, June 6,1944. The AM-125 Tide was an Auk Class...

There were many naval ships and many sacrifices that contributed to the Invasion of France, leading up to and following D-Day. So many...

"Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have...

After spending 3 days in Horta, the ship finally arrived in England. The following are excepts from the First Anniversary document...

On December 14, 1943, the YMS-346, along with her sister ships, YMS-347, 348, 349, 350, 351 and 352, started their journey overseas,...

In the weeks that followed the Commission Ceremony for the YMS-346, the crew was busy preparing the ship for shakedown and for final...

Yeoman Meyer H. Leavitt gives the following account of the Commission Ceremony for the YMS-346 in a document he wrote commemorating the...

While the YMS-346 was being built in Jacksonville, Florida, Jack and the crew were busy preparing themselves for what lay ahead. After...

The first ship Jack was assigned to after completing basic training at Sampson Naval Training Station in NY was the USS Sangay AE-10. ...

Training Base on Upstate Lake Turns Out Gobs of Sailors. -Daily News-January 26, 1943 "Twelve miles from this town [Geneva, NY], on 2,500...