In am looking for any information and service details of my Father, Andrew Francis Corcoran who served on the USS Alamance during the later part of WW2 in the Pacific.
In am looking for any information and service details of my Father, Andrew Francis Corcoran who served on the USS Alamance during the later part of WW2 in the Pacific.
As noted in a prior NARA post, the OPMF's will give the most complete picture of your father's service history but can take some time to reproduce. In the mean time, NARA's collection of vessel "Muster Rolls" show dates your father reported aboard and some limited information on his advancement in rating from Seaman S1c to Signalman SM3 and other administrative info. Online access to the first page of the Alamance Muster Rolls would be at
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/125430225?objectPage=3
First mention of your father is on page 166 having reported on board 1 Jan 1946. Youll have to scrool through to look for additional entries.
To view the vessel's activities while he was assigned to Alamance, you can review her history at the Naval History and Heritage Command at:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/alamance.html
Enjoy
Brad Davidson