Wheeler, Raymond, 1/25/2000
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Raymond Wheeler (Navy, 1943-1945??) trained as an armed guard in Gulfport, Mississippi and was assigned to the merchant ship in the Makawao. His next assignment was to the gun crew of the USS Fairland. He tells of how he spent his off duty time and the cruises the ship took to Hawaii and New Guinea. He was transferred to the Jean Nicolet as the pointer on the 5-inch .38. His ship was hit by a torpedo and most of the crew members surrendered to the Japanese crew of the sub that hit them, He recounts the atrocities that the Japanses crew committed on the Americans that had surrendered. He was one of only twenty-three that survived the ordeal. Wheeler went back to the states via India and was reassigned in Brooklyn and then at the Lake Denmark Ammunition Depot, where he remained until the end of the war. OHP Control Number 0957
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