USS Abner Read (DD-526) upon arrival at Adak, Alaska, after a Japanese mine damage that torn off the ship’s stern and killed 71 sailors off the coast of Kiska in support for Allied landing operations on the island a few days earlier during WWII (August 20, 1943)
USS Abner Read (DD-526) …
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