Life of Duty; The St. of Gambier Bay
The folks at NRA’s Life of Duty sent us their latest production “The St. of Gambier Bay” referring to Norm St. Germaine, one of the survivors of the USS Gamier Bay (CVE-73), an escort carrier, which was sunk by Japanese destroyers in the Battle off Samar on Oct. 25, 1944. St. Germaine recounts his life before he went off to the war, the events as he observed them aboard ship and his life clinging to a raft for two days waiting to be rescued after the Gambier Bay was sunk. The video is 25 minutes long, but you’ll want to see it all;
Category: Historical
I’m in the middle of reading “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”