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Monument installed, in Portland Maine, to honor men that died on the USS Reuben James,

POR98111301 - 14 NOVEMBER 1998 - PORTLAND, MAINE, USA: Retired Navy Chief Boatswain Stephen Heald of Georgetown, Maine, right, blows the boatswains call during a cermony in Portland, Maine Friday afternoon at the just installed monument to honor the men that died on the first United States warship sunk in World War Two, the destroyer USS Reuben James. The Portland, Maine based ship was struck by a German U-Boats torpedo while on convoy duty in the Atlantic only weeks before U.S. entry into WWII and was sunk leaving only fortyfive survivors. The boatswains call that Heald was using was the call from the Rueben James and will be presented to Reuben James Society..UPI lkm/wy/Lee K. Marriner

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