Posted on Jun 8, 2019
U.S. Navy names future destroyer in honor of U.S. Coast Guard Navy Cross recipient | Coast Guard...
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"Cmdr. Walsh was given command of a 53-man special task force assigned to capture the vital port of Cherbourg. Despite heavy casualties, his small force seized the port facilities and took control of the harbor the day after they entered the city.
After he discovered that the remaining German garrison at Fort du Homet held 52 U.S. Army paratroopers as prisoners, Walsh, under a flag of truce, exaggerated the strength of the forces under his command and persuaded the commanding officer of the remnants of the German garrison to surrender. These actions earned him the Navy Cross and, all told, he accepted the surrender of over 700 German soldiers. "
After he discovered that the remaining German garrison at Fort du Homet held 52 U.S. Army paratroopers as prisoners, Walsh, under a flag of truce, exaggerated the strength of the forces under his command and persuaded the commanding officer of the remnants of the German garrison to surrender. These actions earned him the Navy Cross and, all told, he accepted the surrender of over 700 German soldiers. "
U.S. Navy names future destroyer in honor of U.S. Coast Guard Navy Cross recipient | Coast Guard...
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PO1 Kevin Dougherty
Approved for construction. If they keep the pace they have historically, the Keel should be laid around 2022, with commissioning around 2023 or 24. But that assumes funding continues and all that rot.
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