DRISCOLL, Joseph (#175)

Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes:

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Commander Joseph DRISCOLL USN for the dramatic and important expansion of the UNITED STATES NAVY, which he joined on 13 Dec 1942, the US MERCHANT MARINE and the KAISER mass production of those vital strategic assets, the 2,770 prefabricated US cargo vessels, the LIBERTY SHIPS (his own was the SS George A CUSTER), in the total US Maritime Commission’s 5,777 WW2 cargo ships produced; for the PACIFIC campaigns & lessons learned ahead of and for the D-DAY NORMANDY INVASION (CUSTER’s first delivery was Royal Engineers) & the other ALLIED ARMADAS, here to supply the UTAH BEACHHEAD & others with those solid LOGISTIC support shafts for the forward FIGHTING SPEARHEADS. The Commander’s naval career spanned steam and oil to the development of nuclear propulsion for the “Long Beach” cruiser project and he had two naval uncle brothers from West CORK before him, Patrick O’DRISCOLL in the ROYAL NAVY and Dennis DRISCOLL in the US NAVY.