Recent content by ldsmith1818

Thank you so much for this list!! It's so helpful! Do you know of an easy way to find a sailor's ship assignment history? I would love to find my great uncle's ship assignments, like how long he was on the Peary, was he on any other ships before that etc.

Thank you! I had only one of those links not the other. :)

I definitely will! I'm hoping to write a historical fiction book using some of the research. I've got a stack of books on the pacific fleet battles and the Darwin attack specifically that I need to read through, but I'm compiling as much of the photos in a database now while I can find them.

I haven't! Thank you so much for the link!

Hi! I am researching my great uncle Walter Shofner who perished on the USS Peary in Darwin Bay Australia Feb 19th, 1942. I'm looking for (and knowing it's likely impossible to find) photos of the crew, anything where I might find a photo of him. Or any photos of the ship in action. I have a few...