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July 22, 2007

My grandfathers first ship assignment was on the USS PLATTSBURG, just after the first world war, his name was Anthony Macaluso and eventually served for 50 years and retired as a commander. He was physician and most of his career after the second world war was in the reserves. He was the doctor that gave Joe Kennedy his physical and although I know my mother has the article somewhere in her home, no one has seen it in many years. For your interest, I have a photo of the ship’s crew on the fore deck and the manifest with the crews compliment. There are sailors sitting on the gun barrels and you can see my grandfather in the first row with the officers. I was hoping some day to find a model that I could either build or buy assembled to place under the photo of my grandfather in his 1st Lieutenants uniform. But I just wanted to add a little piece of my family’s history to what you have here.

Phil Wetherall