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Shaun Thomas (Underdog), OSC
to remember
Lewis Jr., Lemuel Banks (Stepdad), GM1 USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Savannah
Last Address Savannah
Date of Passing Aug 15, 1971
Location of Interment Bonaventure Cemetery - Savannah, Georgia
Lem married my Mother in January 1946, they were divorced in 1968. He died due to a massive heart attack in August 1971. I was deployed to the med at the time and was considered to valuable by CO to be given emergency leave since Lem was my step-father instead of my natural father. I was Leading Signalman on the Canisteo (AO-99) at the time.
Lem never discussed, in detail, his war time expierences, there for most of the information i have is based mostly on conjecture except for the two battles that I have listed. I have never known what wartime commands he was actually stationed on, however he did mention that he had had two ships sunk out from under him with in a month. I do know that one of those ships was an APA.
All of the commands that he was assigned to, after the war are from my memory and the actual commands are factual, though the actual time frames are, in sum cases, conjecture based on what school year I was in at the time and what school I was attending.
