A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
by
Jerry L. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday.
Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among sailors and those waiting for them stateside....