During one of my visits with Pat Fedele, he told me he was being treated for a condition by a specialist. He said he loved this doctor, and as thanks for his help, he put together a CD for him. Then he said, "I made this CD for him.
Photos submitted by Laurie Ann Flatley.
From the commissioning of the Boston, navy clerks typed the records of each enlisted sailor coming on or off the Boston. These records were kept in triplicate sending typed reports back to the navy from the ship on personnel logs. Somewhere toward the end of World War II, the Navy
Steve and I started this project 15 years ago, and I just reconstructed the records. We have over 3,000 sailors and officers, their initial rank when they joined, every promotion, discipline records and battle achievements. 60 of the people who have visited the site have submitted individual pictures of
Another of the Original Crewmembers (plankowners) that I met was Pat Fedele of Providence, RI. He and his wife Sandi lived about a six-hour drive away from me, south of Los Angeles. I had a list of questions for him; the answers were integrated into my 3 volume set about