USS Memphis/Santo Domingo Campaign

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Tom

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• Apr 16, 2000

• #1

Does anyone know of or have any information about US involvement in Santo Doming circa August 1916? I am especially interested in the action of the USS Memphis and her subsequent foundering in a hurricane on that date.

Thanks

Tom

 

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jerry

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• Apr 16, 2000

• #2

here you go.

Jerry

http://www.compass.dircon.co.uk/Memphis.htm

 

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Tom

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• Apr 16, 2000

• #3

Thanks again

 

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Hillbilly

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• Apr 17, 2000

• #4

Thank you very much for that!! Interesting reading. For more on the U.S. Marines in Santo Domingo: See Frank Moya Pons, A History of the Dominican Republic.