<p>80-G-55648:   Survivors of USS Rowan (DD 405) torpedoed by an E-boat while protecting a convoy of transports at Salerno, Italy.
USS Bristol (DD 453) was the rescue ship.  Left to right:  Ensign M.L. Haines; Lieutenant Junior Grade L.F. Brown; and Chief 
Boatswain’s Mate W.H. Wohnus are responsible for saving many lives.  They helped round up survivors in the water, got many
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Wounded men to rafts.    USS Rowan (DD 405)  was torpedoed by an E-Boat while protecting a convoy of transports at Salerno, Italy.  USS Bristol (DD 453) rescued the ship.   Photographed by CPU-5, September 14, 1943.  (4/28/2015).
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