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A Company ‘Outhouse’
We were also invited to join the sailors aboard ship to enjoy some down home Navy cooking from time to time—we took advantage of their generosity and sent squad at a time to the mess hall. One ship in particular more or less adopted our platoon —the ship was the USS Kemper County, LST # 854. They wrote us up in their ship’s newspaper and complimented our Marines for their professionalism and competence in providing their protection.24 @ Other LST’s came and went but we always had a special affection for the USS Kemper County!
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