{"id":1253,"date":"2017-11-08T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:59:39","slug":"a-veterans-day-tribute-erwin-a-schroder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/a-veterans-day-tribute-erwin-a-schroder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Veteran’s Day Tribute – Erwin A. Schroder"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Erwin A. Schroder, my late father-in-law, served on the USS Patterson<\/em> (DD392)<\/a> in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The Patterson earned 13 battle stars. Only a small number of the hundreds of destroyers in the Pacific won more.\u00a0 She would have likely earned more had she not\u00a0 collided with the USS McCalla<\/em> (DD488)<\/a> in the fall of 1943. That collision took her out of action for several months. Erwin was on board for 8 of the 13 campaigns.<\/p>\n

While I have described some of Erwin’s life and service elsewhere (see the third part of a series “Lords of the Ring”<\/a>), this entry focuses more on pictures from an album that I recently scanned. (Click on the thumbnails to enlarge).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Midshipman in NYC in front of Grant’s tomb<\/p><\/div>\n

Erwin cut a dapper figure in his Midshipman’s uniform while in Midshipman’s school at Columbia University in 1942 and in his dress uniform after earning his ensign’s commission.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Ensign Schroder<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I also found some shots of him while on board.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Lt(jg) Schroder in his quarters<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Moored at Guam, 1945)<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two of my favorite pictures show Erwin and his good friend Chief Knud Sorensen. The first was taken in 1943 when the Patterson<\/em> was dry docked for the fitting of a new bow.\u00a0 The second was taken at a ship reunion in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Schroder and Sorensen, 1943 and ca. 1990s<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

And there were times to relax.\u00a0 Back in Pearl Harbor there was time for badminton, work in a Victory Garden, and general goofing off.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A grateful nation thanks Erwin and the millions who served, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Erwin A. Schroder, my late father-in-law, served on the USS Patterson (DD392) in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The Patterson earned 13 battle stars. Only a small number of the hundreds of destroyers in the Pacific won more.\u00a0 She …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,98],"tags":[102,99],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-naval-history","tag-pacific-theater-wwii","tag-uss-patterson-dd392"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IN7p-kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}