I decided to open up user registration in case I have any repeat commenters who might want to sign up and secure a username, photo, etc. Eventually, when I get more info up, if someone related to this project is particularly interested in sharing their own photos, stories, findings, I might add an author or two as well.
Archive for 2009
User Registration
Dec 11
Signalman Thomas Morley
Dec 1
I was contacted by the son of Thomas Morley, a signalman aboard YMS-299 during the same period as my grandfather. Exciting!
We’ll be swapping some photos, documents and stories. More to come…
YMS-299
Nov 22
The following are a handful of the photos I have of YMS-299 (later renamed AMS-52 Rhea). The first of which came from my grandfather’s keepsakes. The rest I found online or were sent to me by former crew members (or the family of).
If you look at the photo in full size, it has a couple dozen crew posing and waving.
YMS = Yard Minesweeper. Mines had magnetic force to make them attack battleships. The YMS was made of wood to skirt around the mines and destroy them. Read the rest of this entry »
43-452, San Diego, CA, 1943
Nov 22
Questions to answer:
- How would someone try to get a list of names for a photo like this? Read the rest of this entry »
Getting started
Nov 22
I’m getting this blog set up so I can have a central place to start making notes on photos and such. It’ll be a slow start, but I actually have a good amount of data to begin and as people run across this blog my contacts should snowball.
If you are a historian and/or a family member of a soldier involved in the story of YMS-299, I’d be more than happy to hear from you.