Talk:USS Howard (DD-179)

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mY father was an officer on the Howard in World War II

My father served on the Howard 1943-to decommissioning. He was Lt. Robert A. White and was always proud of the ship and crew. He became Gunnery officer and talked of Japanese Kamikaze attacks. He told a story of minesweeping off one of the islands. They had long poles out that had prongs to explode mines. The marines on the beach were bored and shot the prongs off. Everytime this happened they brought the poles back in and had to repair them. The captain of the ship got tired of this happening and lowered the ships guns at the beach. He told the marines if his ship had anymore fire from the beach he would fire back. They got to sweep the rest of the harbor unmolested. Thanks to all who served on the Howard and all other ships in the Navy67.61.235.57 (talk) 03:48, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]