{"id":11671,"date":"2009-06-15T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:06:00","slug":"that-pt-boat-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11671","title":{"rendered":"That PT boat Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, yeah, on that PT boat “Captain” that shot the security guard at the Holocaust Museum, the one about whom Military.com ran this headline;
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\nYeah, well, Terry D dropped off a link <\/a>yesterday that goes to PT 159’s log. That stuff about him being a captain comes from this entry;
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\nNotice the date – July 13, 1945. The US dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th and on Nagasaki August 9th, President Truman announced Japan’s surrender on August 14th and VJ Day was September 2d. And notice his rank – an O-1<\/span> O-2. Yet, for those six weeks, he’s forever known as a “World War II PT Boat Captain”. I’ve had the hiccups longer. It’s about the same amount of time that Jesse MacBeth spent in the Army.<\/p>\n

Von Brunn enlisted on April 29, 1942 and was immediately placed in the inactive reserves. March 16, 1943 he was recalled to active duty and was appointed a midshipman and was ordered to report for “Midshipmen’s School” in New York City ordered on April, 20, 1943. I don’t see what he did after that until he took over PT 159. Wikipedia says he was “awarded three battle stars” but I can’t find the record of them.<\/p>\n

It looks like PT 159’s log ends October 1, 1945. I don’t see any proof that von Brunn retired from the Navy, either, even though the media has interchanged the word “retired” with folks who just ended their service. I’m pretty sure the media doesn’t know the difference. Military.com should, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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