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Re: SOC Seagull lost July 1942 USS WICHITA
Hello.
It was Douglas Fairbanks Jnr., the ACTOR !
On the morning of 25 June, two days out from Scapa Flow, Hamilton's flagship "London" anchored in Hvalfiord, Iceland, where the American battleship "Washington" and the American cruisers "Wichita" and "Tuscaloosa"already lay. Some hours later, Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks Jr, USNR, Admiral Giffen's Flag Lieutenant, reported aboard the "Wichita" for temporary additional duty's during the operation that was to follow. Fairbank's wrote an hour-by-hour chronicle* of the events in the cruiser force for his Admiral's personal files.
See:
The Destruction of Convoy PQ.17
Irving,David.
New York:Simon & Schuster,1968.
pp.37-8
* Lieutenant Douglas E. Fairbanks, Jr., USNR.
"Cruiser Covering Force, June 25 to July 8, 1942. (94 pages)."
Col.
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