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On December 20th, 1945, the USS Stormes leaves San Francisco and heads through the Panama Canal and makes it to Cuba on January 14th, 1946.  They will spend one week there doing refresher [...]

James finds out that he has been assigned the USS Stormes (DD-780), and on September 26th, he boards her while she’s in dry dock in San Francisco. The Stormes is a destroyer and had just [...]

In September 1945, James is given word that he will be reassigned to a ship in the Pacific Theater and he is transferred to Camp Shoemaker, in California (outside San Francisco).

After leaving the Squier, James is sent to Fort Pierce in Florida to continue staying in shape until a new ship is found for him.  He will stay in Florida for over three months.

The transfer request that James made in March is approved on April 27th, 1945, and after arriving in Boston on May 16th, James Gray steps off the USS General G. O. Squier for the last time.

Less than a month after his trial, James is caught going AWOL again, this time for an hour and 20 minutes.  He is given the punishment of limited leave during their next stay in port.  However, [...]

On February 22nd, 1945, while at sea, James shows up 35 minutes later for a battle station drill. He is then accused of giving false testimony. He is tried in deck court and found guilty. His [...]

From October 14th, 1944 to May 13th 1945, the USS General G. O. Squier made six transatlantic, troop-carrying and rotation voyages from New York to ports in the United Kingdom (Plymouth, [...]

General G. O. Squier returned to New York on September 26th with casualties and prisoners of war embarked at Naples after Operation Dragoon.

The USS General G. O. Squier makes another round trip from Oran to Cap Camarat, France, dropping off over 3,000 more invading troops as part of Operation Dragoon.