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Casualty Info
Last Address USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3)
Casualty Date Jun 18, 1945
Cause Non Hostile- Died of Illness, Other Injury
Reason Heart Attack
Location South China Sea
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)/Battle of the Philippines
Other Memories Milwaukee, Captain Forrest B. Royal commanding, was in New York Navy Yard for overhaul when Japan struck. Departing New York on 31 December 1941, Milwaukee escorted a convoy to the Caribbean and arrived at Balboa, Panama on 31 January 1942, transited the Panama Canal, and escorted eight troop transports to the Society Islands. Returning to the Atlantic through the canal on 7 March, she stopped at Trinidad en route to Recife, Brazil, where she joined the South Atlantic Patrol Force.