From author Brannock who served on the USS CHESTER (CA-27) in World War II: “The second edition of CHESTER Heritage also honors Mrs. Mary Brannock, my widowed mother, who wrote her own short memoir...vizualizați mai multeFrom author Brannock who served on the USS CHESTER (CA-27) in World War II: “The second edition of CHESTER Heritage also honors Mrs. Mary Brannock, my widowed mother, who wrote her own short memoir for me.”
“Miss Mary, a little gray-haired lady from Cambridge, Maryland in the year of 1943 went down on her knees every morning and evening and at the end of her weekly bible class with the simple prayer:
‘Dear heavenly Father,
I ask you to protect my boy and his buddies and the USS CHESTER, bring them home safely. My boy isn’t much, but he is all that I have.’”
More than 2,000 CHESTER men did return home.vizualizați mai puține