Last Hours of Whitehurst by 
Veterans of USS Trigger SS-564 
   Last 
Hours
See the Whitehurst's Sister Ships in WWII 
CortDiv40 
Whitehurst's VJ Day Flag Discovered and Saved in 1960s 
VJ Day Flag 
  
Medals Earned by Whitehurst Veterans in WWII 
 
 Medals Earned 
 
 
Ship's Specifications and Armament 
 
Specifications & Armament   
The sinking of USS Eversole DE 404, and the rescue of 
her survivors. 
 
Eversole 
"The Men Who Sail Below"  A touching poem of the 
life of the Black Gang, 
by one or more veterans of the USS Borum DE-790 1943-1946 
 
The Men Who Sail Below 
The Baskin Log: 
Whitehurst Activities in WWII Recorded by George Baskin 
1944    
1945 
July 2007: Another WWII Log Surfaces.  Click the link to read the log 
of  
Pasquale A. "Charlie" Conti FN 
 
The Conti Log 
Radarman 3/c Bill Cutten's Memories of  his Whitehurst  
Experience in 1945-46 
 
Old Water Bucket 
 Walking on the Bulkheads and The Perils of a Panama
Canal Transit and  
other stories by: Jake Dumelle 
 Panama  
 
Jake Dumelle's Resume with photos from a movie appearance 
Resume 
 
Whitehurst WWII Veteran's Photos on Doug Smith's Web Site 
 
Doug's Photo Page
Doug Smith's Service Record 
Doug's Service 
 
She's Gonna Blow  by: Doug Smith WT 2/c 
 Gonna Blow 
 
Near Misses of the Whitehurst by Jake Dumelle RT 2/c 
 
Near Misses 
 
USS Crosley APD-87 Assists Whitehurst After Attack by Suicide Bomber 
  Crosley Log 
 
Tug of War with a Fuel Hose by Doug Smith WT 2/c  
 
Killing the Black Snake   
Them Ain't Mosquitoes. Them's Bullets! By Doug Smith WT 2/c 
              Bullets  
Doug Smith Volunteers for Army Duty 
What Came Over Me?! 
 Letter submitted to "The Times" by the Daughter of Lew Cowden
MR 2/c 
 
Letter 
 RD3 Dan Yeager's Memorial to Whitehurst's Kamikaze
Victims 
 
Memorial  
 Eye Witness to the Kamikaze Strike 
    
Witness    
  
 Charlie Herril's Pipe and History of the Bosun's Call  
 
  Bosun
    
Commander James R. Grey, First CO of Whitehurst 
 
How I Steamed the Captain's Butt by Lew  Cowden MR 2/c 
 
Poem "Buried At Sea" by Raymond E. Plumb
 
War Record of James K. Nance, First Lt. of Whitehurst during WWII  
 
(note: This is a good chronology of Whitehurst's WWII activity) 
 
Picture and comments of Baskin & Cowden re: Explosion of Mt Hood Ammunition Ship
 
  
For More Eye Witness Accounts of the Mt Hood Explosion see the Mt Rainier Web
Site 
 
Lt James K. Nance's Memories of the Kamikaze Attack  K_Attack!
 
  
Roy Graham's account of sinking of Japanese Submarine I-45  
 
A Brief Break from War 
 
Storms Remembered by Syd Calish 
Downing of a Japanese "Val" Dive Bomber
 
Auto Biography of Syd Calish, First Engineering Officer 
 
  
 
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