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Undated Letter |
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Beecher Gallagher started his war experience training for the position of coxswain, whose responsibility it was to captain small transport boats to and from larger ships, in Fort Pierce, Florida as part of the 35th flotilla, 133rd group, 22nd division. After completion of his training, Gallagher was transferred to Pearl Harbor and assigned to the U.S.S. James O’Hara, a U.S. navy transport ship, by early June 1944. Here, aboard the O’Hara, Gallagher likely participated in the June 15, 1944 landings on Saipan. After serving for almost a year on the O’Hara, Gallagher was admitted to a New Caledonian hospital as a result of skin-related troubles on April 4, 1945. Remaining there for about two months, Gallagher later traveled back east to presumably see his family in Maine in June, 1945, at which point his letters end. |
