On behalf of my Mom's friend, I am looking for information on the status of David Joseph O'Callaghan who served in the Korean War. He was known to have been a fireman aboard the USS Diachenko APD 123 This is all I know about him at this time. I have been searching the Library of Congress but to no avail. Please place this email with your other "looking for" queries for Korea. Thank you. Catherine Windsor windsor7@cdsnet.net
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 clarence w andrews Email addresst wrote: it seems like the ship diachenko (?) apd (# ?) has been left out of the ships history of the korean war. this was one of the ships that landed marines at inchon (wolmi do) (again spelling). as my father served on this ship i think she deserves to be listed. i think this was chesty pullers ship. check out the marines for his bibliography if it exists. later my father waws to earn a presidential citation presented by vice-admiral dewey strubble aboard the battle ship missouri for his actions. my fathers name is clarence w andrews (although mispelled as charles) on the citation, en2 i believe at the time. for actions dated nov 13, 1950 for mapping out the water route for evacuation of pusan harbor. it ia not also known, but the usn official photo of the massive explosion destruction off pusan harbor (which went off 3-4 minutes early) shows the aft section of the diachenko and also shows a person in the air on that aft section photograph apparantly either getting blown off or jumping in surprise at the explosion. that person is my father. please feel free to contact me at my fax 920 324 2535 or at drawman@powerweb.net thank you very much (yes father is still with us and living in san antonio, tex)