Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Torbert H. Macdonald '40, USNR, is back home after 17 months of sea duty, with a record that has won him the Silver Star, the Atlantic and Pacific Theatre ribbons, and a Presidential Unit Citation, the only one given to a PT squadron...
Having gone to the Law School for a year and a half after his graduation, "Torbie joined up when Pearl Harbor was struck. Assigned to a PT squadron, he first got into action at the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, after preliminary training at Melville, Rhode Island, and in the Atlantic...
...certain PT squadron commander had managed to capture a Jap naval officer after sinking a fleet of Barges which the Nipponese commanded. The U. S. officer questioned his captive on all sorts of routine matters, such as where he was bound for and where he came from...
...decided to send part of his squadron home, leaving a few ships just in case the other Japanese boats did arrive. And just 20 minutes after the hour the captured officer had named, around the bend came a string of barges, perfect setup for another attack. The Jap had been telling the truth...
...seven and a half months his squadron sank 43 Jap ships, probably sank or damaged 91 others. But Miller's most brilliant record is his own. He himself definitely sank 20 of those ships, totaling 35,500 tons, among them a destroyer and a 10,000-ton tanker; probably sank or damaged 46 totaling 28,350 tons, among them a light cruiser, a destroyer, two destroyer escorts. (Not included in that record: barges, sail boats, sampans. Miller sank so many that he was too embarrassed to report them...