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USS Fletcher First Person Stories & Accounts

The Loss of the USS Juneau, November 13, 1942
By Rear Admiral J. C. Wylie, Fletcher’s first Executive Officer

The Luckiest Ship of Them All, November 13, 1942
By Douglas J. Huggard

A USS Northampton Survivor’s Thanks to Fletcher
By Alvin R. Brooks

A Collection of Remembrances from World War II
By John V. Jensen

A story from Korea, 1952
By Commander Robert McCurley

The Fighting Fletcher and the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
By Arthur B. Fox

’Old Sailors’
A poem by Larry L. Dunn

Sea Stories from the crew
A miscellaneous collection

A Farewell Address to the Mighty Fighting Fletcher
A poem by Anonymous, 1953-55

The White Cross’ & ’The Brave
Two poems by Hap Otililio, USMC 1946

Mercury-Atlas 9 capsule recovery 1963
By Karl Bonn

2008 Cruise on USS The Sullivans DDG-68
By Ltjg Robert Frost