Entry 279
Date: Monday, May 6, 2002 Time: 10:37 AM EST
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Name= Charles J Nussbaum Eng 2class
Served= 1956-1960
Ship / Unit= USS Vance DER 387
Age= 65
City= Columbus Grove
State= Ohio
Zip= 45830
Country= United States
Phone= 419-532-3713
A URL to share= No
How did you find this site?= Accidentally
Reasons for reading about the Vance= Vance/Naval history, To find shipmates
Comments= I went to Diesel school out of boot camp I was then sent to Calf. to fire fighting school and then went to San Francisco were the USS VAnce was in dry-dock being converted to a DER.
We then set out for our first tour of duty at Seattle Was. After our time was up we then went to Pearl Harbor where I left her in Nov of 1959.
I forgot to mention while in WAS. and on patrol on two different occasions we had a fire which burnt out the machine shop and the other was a collision with one of our sister ships while passing guard mail. We spent a lot of time picking up glass balls from Japanesee fishing nets while in Haw.
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