"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and il together."
~ Shakespeare

Click On The Links, If You Are Looking For LSM/LSMR - Ship/Personnel Information and May Your Wish Come True.

NavSource Archives
The Best U.S. Navy Ship Information Webpage On The Enternet.

Hyper War
U.S. Navy at War 1941-1945
Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945

DANFS (US Naval Historical Center web site)

Military Records of World War II Veterans

Looking For His War Record

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"Google Language Tools"
Courtesy of Google

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The Sandscrapers
The Sandscrapers is an adventure novel dealing primarily with a small segment of amphibious forces of the U.S. Navy during World War II.

LSM - LSMR
Volume II is a general illustrated history, written by LSM-LSMR Historian Rolf F. Illsley, and includes World War II, Korea and Vietnam, more eyewitness accounts of kamikaze attacks, sinkings, typhoons, and landings on enemy beaches. Includes rare photos, ship profiles on each LSM, veterans' biographies with photos, and Association membership roster of 3,500 names.

When Civilians Manned The Ships
"After reading this one-of-a-kind book, I firmly believe it deserves a wide readership among the public at large and especially among the multitude of civilians who manned the ships and their descendants. How better could a grandson or granddaughter learn what grandfather did in World War II than to read this most readable account."

~ Thomas A. Peacock, Cdr. USNR (Ret.) Commander, LSM Group 25

Remembering
Those "STRANGERS IN THE BOX"

Come, look with me inside this drawer
In this box I' ve often seen,
At the pictures, black and white
faces proud, still, serene.

I wish I knew the people
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where or when,
These faces of my heritage
would come to life again.

Could this become the fate
Of pictures we take today?
The faces and memories
Someday to be passed away?

Make time to save your stories
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.

Anonymous Author
Judy Wood
Courtesy of "Shoe Box Photos",

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Remembering the 1940 animated feature "Pinocchio"
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

Glenn Miller
- words by Ned Washington
- music by Leigh Harline
- from the 1940 animated feature "Pinoocchio"
- performed by Cliff Edwards (Jiminy CCricket)

When a star is born
They possess a gift or two
One of them is this
They have the power to make a wish come true

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

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