This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Diane (TWS Admin) Short, SA
to remember
Verdolini, Vincent (Verdy), RM2.
If you knew or served with this Sailor and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE.
For past 14 years, been Volunteer Tour Guide on Yorktown at Patriots Point, Charleston, SC
Have decided to make Web page to pass along stories from navy people of WWII, so that their stories do not vanish as we of the Vanishing Generation are doing. Other generations hopefully will read some of their stories, and pass them on.
http:www.thenavysvanishinggeneration.com
Other Comments:
Was Purchasing agent with DuPont Company Engineering Dept.Construction Div. for 31 years.
Randolph was one of the "long-hull"Essex-class ships. She was laid down on 10 May 1943, at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 28 June 1944, sponsored by Rose Gillette (wife of Guy M. Gillette, a US Senator from Iowa). Randolph commissioned on 9 October 1944, CaptainFelix Locke Baker, USN in command.In July 1961, Randolph sailed for operations in the Caribbean and served as the recovery ship after splashdown for astronaut Virgil Grissom on America's second manned space flight, a suborbital shot. In February 1962, Randolph was the primary recovery ship for astronaut John Glenn on his flight, the first American orbital voyage in space. After his historic three-orbit flight, he landed safely near Noa from which he was transferred, byhelicopter, to Randolph.
Randolph
