After more than 70 years, an Emmons navigational instrument found its way back to its original manufacturer who will preserve this piece of history while honoring the Emmons and her crew. Read how it got there.
- Nov 27, 2016
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See AllThe USS Emmons: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors of the Battle of Okinawa. In their own words, written days after the kamikaze attack of the USS Emmons on April 6, 1945, survivors shared exactly wha
Kathleen Sibelius, former Governor of Kansas, interviews her father, EMMONS shipmate and former Governor of Ohio John Gilligan, as they discuss the April 6, 1945, attack. At the time of the attack, Gi
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