THE FOOTNOTES

When WWII ended we were at Okinawa. We had gone back to Guam for some reason I can't recall, and were returning to Okinawa en route to Japan to help in the mine clean up --getting ready for peacetime use of the harbors. We ran into a typhoon, a hurricane at sea, and were trying to reach a sheltered harbor called Unten Ko at Okinawa. As a sidelight, there were seven YMS's in our group coming from Guam. When we got close to Okinawa., our little fleet was ordered to go up the lee side, the sheltered side with Okinawa between us and the typhoon. For some reason, four of the YMS's went up the windward side of Okinawa into the teeth of the typhoon. They were lost with all hands. The only trace we found after the storm was a galley table
One of the pictures shows the underside of the ship.
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