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That's almost too cool to put back on.
There's probably enough info there to find the original owner.
It would require some serious time and digging around though.
I started looking, lots of jack's listed whom served on those ships, also tried looking for a marriage date as well.
My Dad served on USS Leyte. She was CVS-32.
Skulen iz besd lefd tu teechuz.