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| | US Navy Armed Guard WWII Veterans (armedguard) |
 | | A ship that I was on, the US SS William D. Pender, was on 14 Aug. 1944, in the Invasion of Southern France (Provence), and was next to the Command Ship, USS Catoctin, as part of a ring to protect against German Bombers. |
 | | The Veterans of the US Navy Armed Guard like the Veterans of the US Merchant Marine are the forgotten heroes of WWII. |
 | | We WERE US Navy Gun Crews consisting of Gunners, Coxswains and Boatswains, Radiomen, Signalmen, an occasional Pharmacist, and toward the end of the war a few radarmen serving at sea on Merchant Ships. |
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