Leslie E. Gehres

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Rear Adm. Leslie E. Gehres was the World War ll captain of the aircraft carrier Franklin, the “ship that would not die.”

Articles by David Davidson

Leslie Gehres: Captain of the "Ship that Wouldn't Die", April 1969 | Vol. 20, No. 3
The admiral who commanded "the ship that wouldn't die" recalls the hellish and heroic hours after a kamikaze turned the carrier Franklin into an inferno. Read >>

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