Courageous Harry was awarded 2 Bronze Stars on a ship seeing action on a ship the was part of a convoy protecting a Aircraft Carrier from Subs. across the Atlantic into the Med. dropping troops in Algeria, and the part of invasion of France. When WW 2 was over in Europe, they cruised to the Pacific Sector, where they landed troops Iwo Jima, and then Okinawa. Here 2 kamikazis attacked his ship, after managing to down one, the other one hit and damaged his ship badly, but they repaired it well enough to get close to shore. After inspection, they realized the ship was too damaged to sail again, so they anchored it further out to used as a decoy, which took another kamikazi with it as it sank.
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