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Brannan, Joseph PT Boat Action in the Mediterranean
Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Cent
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Brannan, Joseph PT Boat Service in the Pacific
Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his first one in the Pacific.
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Brannan, Joseph Southern France
Joseph Brannan was stationed in Southern France after being based in Italy. In France, liberty was more available than it had been in Italy.
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Brannan, Joseph USS Niagara (AGP-1)
Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated AGP-1 in January 1943 aft
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Brannan, Joseph War's End
Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank].
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Brannan, Joseph War's End
Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not recollect what the head looked li
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Brannon, Mark Assignment to the 8th Naval District
When the overhaul on the USS Hutchins (DD-746) was complete, Mark Brannon took off for its next assignment, operating off Saipan [Annotator's
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Brannon, Mark Combat Off New Guinea
From the Aleutians, Mark Brannon and the USS Hutchins (DD-746) went back to Hawaii then on to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
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Brannon, Mark Commissioning the USS Hutchins (DD-476)
While waiting for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Hutchins (DD-476)] to be commissioned, Mark Brannon learned that he was going to be one of t
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Brannon, Mark Death in the Family
During the Battle of Surigao Strait, Mark Brannon said the USS Hutchins (DD-746) had spent almost all of its ammunition.
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Brannon, Mark Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in oil rig building business.
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Brannon, Mark Escorting Tankers, Combat Upgrades and Accidental Discharge
After a trip to Guantanamo Bay [Annotator's Note: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] and back in the newly commissioned USS Hutchins (DD-476), Mark Brannon