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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Thomas "Tom" Meredith Jeffery
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:38:06 EST

If I've got this right, one of Robert "Bulger" Jeffery and Flora Wiles
Jeffery's children was Robert Bynum Jeffery, b. 1915 in Mt. Olive and now
living in Chouteau, OK. He was on board the USS Raleigh when it was attacked
in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The ship was badly damaged and listed to
one side but did not sink. Robert's job on board was ammunition handler for
the 6 inch guns. One of the bombs dropped by the Japanese plowed thru 5
decks on the Raleigh and missed going into the ships ammo room by about 2
feet. Had it struck the ammo room, the ship would have blown up and Robert
would have been lost. The Raleigh made it back into the war and Robert
sailed on her throughout the South Pacific, up to the Aleutians and into the
Bering Sea. He was present when the ship decommissioned at the Norfolk Navy
Yard, VA, in 1945. From there Robert was assigned to the USS Burleson. The
Burleson took part in the experiments and research on the Atomic Bomb that
occurred after the war was over in the Pacific. These tests were at Bikini
and Eniwetok Islands. He left the Navy in 1947.


I know...I dwell on the war stuff too much in my research sometimes.

Rick Lawrence - Tulsa

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