{"id":1393,"date":"2018-06-26T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:39:57","slug":"uss-patterson-dd392-reunion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/uss-patterson-dd392-reunion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Patterson (DD392) Reunion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE:<\/strong> Project finished with commentary and link to all the photos<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I really do not need any new projects. However, in my effort to preserve the history of the USS Patterson<\/em> (DD392)<\/a>, I decided to scan and post photos of the ship’s reunions from the first one in 1979 through the early 1990s.\u00a0 All photos are from my Father-in-Law’s album: Erwin A. Schroder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were some reunions after the dates for which I have pictures, including a reunion held in Australia in honor of the 400+ survivors that the Patterson<\/em> rescued from the sinking HMAS Canberra<\/em><\/a> at the Battle of Savo Island<\/a> during which 10 Patterson<\/em> crew were killed. The Patterson<\/em> crew and their families were included in Sydney’s ANZAC Day<\/a> parade that year. The Pat is still revered in Australia for her rescue so many decades ago.<\/p>\n

My hope is that by posting pictures and as many identifications of attendees as I can, others doing genealogical research might be assisted in finding nuggets of their family history.<\/p>\n

Few photos exist from the first Patterson<\/em> reunion in 1979 held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Here is a group photo of the attendees and a picture of the cake made for the occasion (Erwin is third from the right in the group photo). Larger numbers of crewmen attended subsequent reunions when they became better publicized.<\/p>\n

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First USS Patterson (DD392) Crew reunion, 1979, Grand Rapids, Michigan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cake for first USS Patterson Reunion<\/p><\/div>\n

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Also of note are some pictures from the 1986 reunion held in Philadelphia. Crewman and their families visited the newest version of the USS Patterson<\/em> (FF1061)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Marie Schroder on the deck of the USS Patterson (FF1061) at 1986 Patterson (DD392) Reunion<\/p><\/div>\n

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1986 Patterson (DD392) Reunion – Visiting the USS Patterson (FF1061)<\/p><\/div>\n

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1986 Patterson (DD392) Reunion – Visiting the USS Patterson (FF1061)<\/p><\/div>\n

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1986 Patterson (DD392) Reunion – Visiting the USS Patterson (FF1061)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE: Project finished with commentary and link to all the photos] I really do not need any new projects. However, in my effort to preserve the history of the USS Patterson (DD392), I decided to scan and post photos of …<\/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":[98],"tags":[113,155,102,156,99,157],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naval-history","tag-erwin-a-schroder","tag-hmas-canberra","tag-pacific-theater-wwii","tag-ship-reunions","tag-uss-patterson-dd392","tag-uss-patterson-ff1061"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IN7p-mt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}