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I am presenting this information for a near life long friend. Mr. Russell J. Ford and his wife Carolyn
were my Sunday school teachers in Okla. City in the late 1950's. I moved away in 1966 and they moved
to Wichita Falls, Texas a year or so later. I kept in touch with them by Christmas card all these years. I recently discovered that Mr. Ford was in the Navy and served in the Pacific during WWII. After discovering this I visited Mr. and Mr. Ford and made a tape recording of his Navy service experiences. Mr. Ford was involved in the landings at Leyte Gulf in the Philippines and at Okinawa. At that time I found out about this story involving the Japanese sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Only 316 of 1,199 crew members survived. Here is Mr. Ford's story. |