The Wyman is paid for.: Letters from the Pacific, 1942-1945 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798634360928)

Lt. (j.g.) Richard Haley reported to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington in September, 1943 for duty aboard the U.S.S. Wyman DE-38. Assigned to hunter killer sub patrol, the U.S.S. Wyman sunk two Japanese submarines July 1944 near Eniwetok Atoll (Marshall Islands). In June 1945, the U.S.S. Wyman passed through the eye of Typhoon Cobra, also known as Halsey's Typhoon. After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, U.S.S.Wyman was ordered back to the States and decommissioned in November 1945. Haley wrote many letters home to his parents, J.C. and Mae Haley, in Tacoma, Washington, 52 of which have been saved. At the end of one long letter written after the sinkings, describing the sea and shipboard life, he wrote, "The Wyman has been paid for." This signaled to the family at home that the U.S.S. Wyman had sunk a Japanese sub.

Author: Anne E. Haley,Richard Gordon Haley
ISBN-13: 9798634360928
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d