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Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship STIRNI. This ship was named in memory of Lt.(j.g.) Joseph Stirni, USC&GS;, who was killed while a Japanese prisoner of warin 1945. He was killed by a U. S. bomb hitting the ship he was beingtransported to Japan on from the Philippine Islands.
Display Date
1956 November
Collection
Sailing for Science
Mid-Twentieth Century Ships 1940 - 1970