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Subject: Transport Squadron 17--Mountrail


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Thomas Crew
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Date Posted: 19:19:10 03/24/07 Sat
In reply to: Susan (Krueger) Miles 's message, "USS Montrail" on 09:57:43 03/23/07 Fri
 Susan, While my book "Combat Loaded" focuses on the USS Tate, it also contains the larger picture exploits of Transport Squadron 17, which included the Mountrail. I obtained the action reports from all the ships in the sqaudron and the Mountrail's where clearly the most detailed. They helped me piece together a very dramatic mass kamikaze action off Okinawa. The book conatins several tactical maps showing all of the ships, who got hit and who hit what. One fact not in the book, is that the Mountrail carried Cpl Desmond Doss of the 77th Infantry Division from Leyte to Okinawa. Doss was an Army medic who saved 75 men, one at a time, from no man's land on Okinawa. He was wounded several times and recieved the Medal of Honor. In 1963, the living Medal of Honor holders voted him the bravest of the brave. Part of that honor was to represent all the Medal of Honor recipients at the medal's 100th anniversary at the White House. Doss died last year in Alabama. You can find more information about my book on this website. I doubt anyone from the Mountrail even knew about Doss.
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