USS Gambier Bay CVE 73 and Composite Squadron VC-10
United States Navy
[Panel 1]:
Eternal God who alone spreads out the heavens and rules the raging seas, may this memorial bring continued remembrance to the one hundred and thirty seven men who died defending their country in time of danger, and whose bodies found their last resting place in the waters of the Pacific. May it call to mind that they were called by their nation to defend liberty and preserve unity.
We do not what those who died in air and sea battles, often against hopeless odds, to have died in vain. They died tha war would end, an aggressor would be stopped, that peace would come to make the world safe for their families and generatopms. In the name of our Lord. Amen.
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Saipan • Guam • Palaus • Philippines
[Map of the Philippines]
Commissioned December 28, 1943
Sunk by cruisers October 25, 1944
[Panel 2]:
U.S.S. Gambier Bay, CVE-73
World War II
Ship's Company
[Names and ranks of 120 of the ship's crew who were lost in action]
Composite Squadron, VC-10
[Names and ranks of 18 VC-10 members who were lost in action]
May they rest in peace at the bottom of the sea until the day the sea gives up its dead and we are all together again.
Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Dr. S. and Cabrillo Memorial Drive, on the right when traveling east on 3rd Dr. S..
Courtesy hmdb.org
