Survivors at reunion of 1999, Pensacola, FL.
Survivors lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 20 April, 1998, commemorating the 54th anniversary of the sinking of USS Lansdale DD426.
Memorial service in the Ampitheatre at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on 20 April l998, the 54th anniversary the sinking of USS Lansdale DD426, remembering the officers and men lost with the ship.
Anne Marie Allison with her husband, Jack, at the 1994 Reunion held in Natick, MA. Anne Marie is the daughter of shipmate, GM1c Raymond Miller. She is, in effect, the President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Lansdale Association. She is our principal researcher who has done a most remarkable job of locating shipmates, and who administers the business of the association. Jack has been most supportive of Anne Marie's efforts, and acts as the glue which holds everything together at a reunion.
Yours truly with daughters, Kathleen Vincent (left) and Phyllis Gruner (right) in the Ampitheatre at the Tomb of the Unknown Sholdier on 20 April 1998, the 54th anniversary of the sinking of USS Lansdale DD426.
Color Guard provided by USS Constitution at the Memorial Service Sunday, 4 September 1994 for the officers and men killed in action 20 April 1944. The service was held on board USS Cassin Young, a museum ship at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston MA
At the 1994 Reunion, yours truly and Arthur Green, the combat photogapher in USS Menges DE320 on 20 April 1944. Mr Green took many of the combat photographs which appear in this web site.
We welcomed to our 50th year reunion in 1994 Lt. Cdr. F. W. McCabe, USCG, Captain of the USS Menges DE320, one of the two ships which rescued survivors of Lansdale on 20 April 1944. Yours truly was rescued by the other ship, USS Newell DE322.