Notes
Read an excerpt
from the oral history with Richard L. Stewart of the destroyer
USS Downes
describing how his ship was attacked and exploded while in dry-dock.
Text from Principal Investigator
Richard Lewis Stewart was born 8 June 1919 in Mississippi. He was
appointed to Annapolis from Tennessee and was a member of the Class of
1941. At the time of Pearl Harbor, Stewart was serving on the destroyer
USS Downes
(DD 375). Stewart retired from the Navy with the rank of
Lt. Commander.
Compiled from:
The U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association
Inc.,
Register of Alumni, 1997 Edition.
(Annapolis, 1997).
Richard L. Stewart Interview, Oral History
Collection, Special Collections Department, Collection No. 182.
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