USS O’Bannon (DD-450, DDE-450) First Person

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Presidential Unit Citations

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Horror at Guadalcanal Maine Potato Episode

This site presents two works by author and O’Bannon shipmate Ernie Herr, which are reproduced here with his kind permission as follows:

Horror at Guadalcanal — a review of the Solomon Islands campaign from O’Bannon’s perspective.
The Maine Potato Episode — a humorous incident from April 1943.