The USS Dempsey was a destroyer escort my Dad served on in WWII and most of the images were of that ship being built and at sea This duty consisted of seven months of busy escort and patrol work in the Solomon Islands, with brief pauses at Purvis Bay, Florida Island for fuel, provisions, mail and shells for necklaces. She escorted the fourth echelon of occupying forces to Emirau Island, St. Matthias, arriving 4 April 1944. On 6 April 1944 a keen-eyed lookout enabled the Dempsey to rescue four survivors of a U.S.M.C. B-25 bomber, who had been adrift on a raft for five days. The next day, 7 April 1944, she rescued 3 unharmed crewmen of a U.S.N. TBF which crashed in the water within sight of the ship.
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