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These photos, taken from the Gillette, display the hazards of ship-to-ship duty. Thanks to Crewmate Walt Bowden, the story of the photos displayed here has been clarified.
The supply ship shown was a food supply ship to the convoy in the Atlantic. It had suffered engineering casualty, and the Gillette machinists were summoned aboard to effect repairs. As it happens, a group of US Army "Flyboys" requested to be transferred to the Gillette to experience a ride on a DE. As fate would have it, initially they thought it was the neatest!
Shortly, the sea would turn foul, lines would be parted, and the resulting storm would "educate" them in life aboard a DE in bad weather. It should suffice to say that by chow time they had lost more than their appetite.
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