The names around the story

People & ships

Family at home, shipmates, commanders, and 82 vessels, named as Elmer named them. Open any name to see every diary passage in which it appears. Where the Navy’s muster rolls identify a shipmate, a note says so.

A Violet Johnson witnessed Elmer and Dorothy's wedding on July 23, 1945. We believe she is this Violet, but the diary gives no surname and the identification is not certain.

Dec 13 1944

Refueled from the Miami (C89). Received Pckgs from Violet.

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