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Twenty Years Ago Franklin Carrier Disaster and Recovery
Twenty years ago this month the Navy revealed the carrier Franklin was badly damaged by Japanese bombs on March 19, 1945, off Japan. 724 sailors and 265 wounded in eight hours of hell. Lt. Carroll K. Faught survived after losing a leg and an arm, later recalling his escape and rescue by the destroyer Marshall and cruiser hospital crew.
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Vern Haugland
Big Ben
Carroll K. Faught
Faught
Mare Island
Calif
Tess
Office of Emergency Transportation, Faught
Franklin
Japan
Bay of Japan
Laramie
Wyo
Jones