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USS EDSALL – Named for a hero, fought like a Hero and was lost only to overwhelming firepower of full force of Japanese Navy ships and planes from three aircraft carriers; remains of six surviving crew members were found in a mass grave after Japs beheaded them.

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Edsall I (DD-219) 1920-1942 Named for Norman Eckley Edsall, born on 3 June 1873 in Columbus, Ky., who enlisted in the Navy as a seaman …