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By http://www.charleston.net/news/news.aspx?section=localnews *Plans to build a $450 million deep water shipping terminal on the Savannah River launched forward Friday as the Jasper County Council announced three critical agreements with SSA Marine, the world's largest port developer *South Carolina officials say a study to determine the dredging needs of marinas throughout the state should be finished by the end of the month *Surfers by the dozen flock to the Jacksonville Beach shoreline Thursday *Contractors on Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island are recovering sand washed onto private and public property by Hurricane Ivan, removing debris and moving it back to the beach to build emergency berms. Without those berms, officials say the barrier islands are especially vulnerable mac, love your web site.. on a search using "george f.elliot" you popped up!! anyhow, my dad (who is still alive and kicking) has been asking about his old shop.. he won the silver star(recommended for a navy cross) for trying to put fires out aboard ship after the mitsubishi hit her.. he was first class, US Coast Guard.. he ran the higgens boats back and forth. he was on a higgens boat on the way to the beach when the "elliot" was hit..he turned his boat(he was the coxswain) around and went back to do you know of any books that would talk about this or might mention the coast guard and their roll at guadalcanal?? thanks, fred mann, mcallen, texas (near brownsville and just north of the rio grande..i am a ham radio operator and talk to a lot of aussie and nz stations .. Frederick D. Mann Nice to hear from you, and thank you for your kind remarks about AHOY. It is a joint effort with my friend and Web Master, Terry Kearns in Atlanta, Georgia. He copes with all my research and scribblings to produce I will send separately a reference to a book about the role of the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal. They indeed did a great job there, the whole campaign vital to our Pacific strategy, and the beginning of the push towards Tokyo, and final victory. Best wishes,
Hi Mac, After reading the letter to you written by Corinne Goater in the Voltaire pages under the title "Killed on the Voltaire" I stumbled across a little information regarding Tony Davies who`m she mentions.The website address where I found this informations is : http://freespace.virgin.net/war.memorial/navywwii.html If she cares to have a look she just needs to scroll down the page to DAVIES, ANTHONY JOHN and she will find him. I hope this will be of interest to her. Thanks Mac
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