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	50k	Herbert J. Thomas was born 8 February 1918 in Columbus, Ohio. From July to October 1941, he had enlisted service with the Army Air Corps. Sergeant Thomas enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve 3 March 1942 at Charleston, W. Va., and after basic training was assigned to the 2d Marine Brigade. He was killed while serving with the 3d Marine Division during the battle at the Koromokina River, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 7 November 1943. Discovering a gun emplacement difficult to approach, he carefully placed his men around him in strategic positions from which they were to charge after he had thrown a grenade into the emplacement. When the grenade struck vines and fell back into the midst of his group, Sergeant Thomas deliberately flung himself upon it to smother the explosion, valiantly sacrificing his life for his comrades. For his heroic conduct he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Photo from the USMC History Division.		Bill Gonyo
	93k	Artist's conception of the Thomas by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource.		Navy Yard Associates
	274k	July 25 1948, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	109k	Forward plan view of USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD 833) at Mare Island on 13 January 1954. She was in overhaul at the yard from 14 September 1953 to 3 March 1954.		Darryl Baker
	111k	San Francisco June 13 1957.		Robert M. Cieri
	52k	1965 off Point Loma, San Diego, CA. Official USN photo.		Butch Hinton
	166k	August 1965, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	149k	August 1965, location unknown. The odd looking stack at the rear of the Deck House was the exhaust stack for a gas turbine generator that provided the air necessary to pressurize the ship and provide air conditioning. It got the Thomas some strange looks in port and crews in close proximity found it's noise very annoying while operating.		Ed Zajkowski/Carl Ellis
	102k	A view of the Thomas' signature "bubbles." These were installed as part of the STOPS (Shipboard Toxicological Operational Protective System). When the ship was Frammed in '64 and '65 at Mare Island, the system was installed to guard against NBC threats. Above the main deck, spaces were pressurized to that equal to being under 2" of water. Entry was gained fore and aft through revolving doors. The engineering spaces were pressurized to that equal to being under 30" of water and were entered through airlocks. The bubbles were for the lookouts when underway.The ship was also in two of the controversial Project 112 SHAD program tests in '66. This photo was taken in September 1966 while entering Pearl Harbor on our way to WESTPAC. That is Carl in the bubble.		Carl Ellis
	58k	These gunfire photos are of our after 5" mount firing a one and two gun salvo.They were taken during a fire support mission in the IV Corps Area near the gulf of Thailand just before the Christmas truce in 1966.		Carl Ellis
	66k	As above.		Carl Ellis
ARROW WEST 1969 pamphlet				Wolfgang Hechler
Decommissioning pamphlet - December 4 1970				Wolfgang Hechler
		USS Herbert J, Thomas (DD-833), USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649) and USS Henry A Wiley (DM-29) moored together at the San Diego inactive ship maintenance facility in 1971. The Thomas was sold to Taiwan three years after this photograph was taken and renamed Han Yang. The others were broken up the following year (Courtesy L.Cote).		Robert Hurst
	68k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski

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