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Milton W. Autry
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E-7 Chief Petty Officer, Navy
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World War-II
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At the height of World War II, there were 215,000 merchant mariners, including many teenage boys too young to enlist in the military, and men classified as 4-F, yet caught up in the patriotic fervor that swept the country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. According to official statistics, more than 6,795 civilian merchant seamen lost their lives in World War II for a causality rate of 1:32 (the highest casualty rate of any service); 600 were taken prisoner; and more than 650 of their ships were sunk. Unofficial statistics cite 8,651 merchant mariners killed at sea, 11,000 wounded, 1,100 died from their wounds ashore, 604 taken prisoner and 60 died in prison camps.
Milton W. Autry served on the Lliberty Ship S.S. William L. Watson - Hull Number: 2310. The William L. Watson was launched 13 Jul 1944.
There were 2,710 Liberty ships built between
September 27, 1941 and September 2, 1945. Initially,
the ships - with certain military exceptions and in
some of the variatio
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