"NOW HEAR THIS"
The following first-hand accounts have been culled from “Now Hear This, a Newsletter of the USS Savannah (CL-42) and its Shipmates.” The newsletter was founded in 1987, edited by Bob Garmy and published by Murry Flanders. It served to reconnect fellow Savannah crew members with news of future reunions, personal joys and sorrows, and shared experiences from the past.
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum would like to thank Dottie Keller Summerlin and Ron Keller who donated a number of these newsletters to the Museum in recognition of their father C.M. Keller, S1, USS Savannah (CL-42).
This website is an ongoing document. Please check back as we hope to add new stories and content as they become available.
If you or someone you know has editions of these newsletters (especially from the late 1980s - early 1990s) and would like to donate them, or provide copies for the Museum, please contact Museum Curator Wendy Melton at wendymelton@shipsofthesea.org.
Published: August 1993
By: Dick Whiting
Published: November 1993
By: Joe Koch
Published: November 1993
By: George Palella
Published: March 1994
By: Lawrence Day
Title: Albert Andrion’s eye-witness account on the bombing of the USS Savannah on September 11, 1943
Published: August 1995
By: Albert E. Andrion
Published: November 1996
By: Paul E. Coggins
Subject: OJT (On the Job Training)
Published: December 1996
By: Forest R Sheldon
Published: July 1996
By: Lyle Davis
Title: North Africa, Mers-El-Keber Harbor, 1943*
Published: July 1996
By: Lyle Davis
Subject: Gun Station, 11 September 1943
Published: May 1996
By: Eldor Volkman
Published: May 1996
By: Lyle Davis
Published: May 1996
By: Lyle Davis
Published: May 1996
By: Lyle Davis
Published: January 1996
By: Bruce Davis
Title: Remembrances (II) CL-42
Published: January 1996
By: Bruce Davis
Title: The Story of Mice & Men
Published: January 1996
By: Ralph Scheib
Subject: Ref: “Of Mice and Men” *
Published: May 1996
By: B. Lyle Davis
Subject: Thyrator Room, 11 Sept 1943
Published: January 1996
By: Marvin Petzholdt
Published: March 1996
By: B. Lyle Davis
Subject: Entrapment in Radio 3
Published: January 1997
By: Bob Garmy
Published: January 1997
By: Cdr R G Langland
Subject: Operations off Sicily
Published: March 1997
By: John Heesemann
Subject: An Aviator’s Recollections
Published: April 1997
By: J. Gordon Osborn
Subject: Navy Day, Operation Magic Carpet, & Mothballs*
Published: June 1997
By: Tom Travers
Published: June 1997
By: Gene Chamberlain
Title: Now, For a Look Back – Way Back
Published: August 1997
By: Bob Garmy
Published: August 1997
By: Bob Maples
Published: February 1998
By: Bob Schmitz
Published: May 1999
By: Pastor Herbert Hemingway
Published: May 1999
By: Jim Given
Published: May 1999
By: Joe Mathis
Published: May 1999
By: Robert Langland
Published: July 1999
By: J. Kenneth Cox
Subject: Memories of the Past*
Published: March 2000
By: Frank Landers
Published: April 2001
By: Tom Simpson
Published: April 2001
By Maurice Whitacre (Editor)
Published: November 2002
By: Lou Wabnitz (Editor)