Telfair- Picture of the ship taken during W.W.II Dec. 1943
Photographs taken by Royal Nickodemus during W.W.II, and provided by his grandson Martin Fahrer. Text below is taken from Martin's email
Don,
I recently visited my Grandfather. I will not retell the kamikaze attack because my
father has e-mailed it to you.
He had a typed history of the Telfair from the Navy. Discussing the IE Shima &
Okinawa landing. According to the document they landed April 18th 1945 w the tenth
army troops. During the attack there were 388 Enemy killed and one prisoner
captured. Th US forces lst 15 Men 73 Wounded & 5 Missing. I believe one of the
pictures I sent you was from that mission.
Telfair- Picture of the ship taken during W.W.II Dec. 1943
DF- A picture of an aerial dogfight at Okinawa EI Shima landing, taken from aboard
the Telfair deck.
LC- A landing craft being brought aboard the Telfair.
Notice the hull Number PA210-11
I have a story of a drunken LT. that almost got a landing craft lost and about a
dozen more pictures to scan and send.
Hope you enjoy
Martin
Thank you for sharing these World War II photographs with us Royal and Martin .
ver: 01/18/06
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