World War II Honoree

Robert Hicks Gall

Branch of Service

U.S. Merchant Marine

Hometown

Cleveland, Ohio

Honored By

Linda Gall-Keane

Relationship

Daughter

Enlisted four months before Pearl Harbor. Bombed on trips to India and the Mediterranean. On his first trip to Bombay, his boat was attacked by 76 Japanese planes who were making their first raid on India. While bringing up supplies to the American army stationed in North Africa, he declared his boat was attacked by 11 Italian torpedo planes 25 miles off the coast of Sardinia. No Nox, 228957, 10/21/42 Monongahela, 215916, Barge, 12/15/42 Samuel Livermore, 242258, 1/30/43 Helen Hunt Jackson, 242602, 6/29/43 S. S. Jacob Thompson, 244041, Steam, 2/25/44 S. S. Jacob Thompson, 244041, Steam, 2/28/44 He was on the first American convoy to enter Naples after the capture of that city. Their first duty at Naples was to ring the air raid alarm. German lines were only 23 miles from the ship at the time of landing. When the post office at Naples was blown up, he was on hand to aid in the rescue.