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Ralph C. Nash |
| World War, 1939-1945
Coast Guard
USSCGC Shoshone; USSCGC Taney; USSCGC Tiger; USS Philadelphia
South Pacific
Chief Boatswain's Mate
CO
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Attracted to the Coast Guard by its reputation as the oldest continuous seagoing service, Ralph Chester Nash departed for Hawaii in 1939 to serve aboard the USCGC Tiger. Patrolling the waters outside of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7th, he and his crew spotted a small submarine; they chased it with no success. In the moments before the first wave of Japanese airplanes flew overhead, the Tiger came under fire from the mother submarine stationed out at sea. After the attack, Nash spent the remainder of the war escorting troop and ammunitions ships through the South Pacific, protecting them from enemy submarines.
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