Lansdale's Journey

The story from my family is about my great uncle, William Douglas Brewer, who survived being torpedoed in the Mediterranean by German pilots. During WWII, he was in the Navy serving on the U.S.S. Lansdale as a rank of E5. When the U.S.S. Lansdale sank having a life preserver is what kept him alive until the Coast Guard could get the survivors. His time spent floating in the ocean is what made him change his life.
To make this story go more in depth, the research questions will help this process. These questions will help create a clearer understanding of the situation. Some of the other questions are what mission was the U.S.S. Lansdale on and what was another take of the ships sinking? Also, how many sailors survived? What is the history
Eagles over North Africa and the Mediterranean 1940-1943. Jeffrey Ethell. London: Greenhill Books, 1997. Print. Luftwaffe at War.
Eagles over North Africa and the Mediterranean is a book in a series about the German Luftwaffe in WWII. Which provides photographs and details about the various aircraft flow by the German air force during this time. In the listed theater of operations there is details on each aircraft used and how they were operated during WWII. This is important to readers in order to explain how the ships were attacked by the Germans.
“Forward-firing twenty mm cannon in the ventral blister gave the aircraft an excellent punch for the anti-shipping sorties it flew across the Mediterranean.”
The Two-Ocean War. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Print.
Morison who was a professor at Harvard. Wanted to write a history during the event so after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to the president with his idea. The president had him appointed a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. Morison then served aboard eleven different ships earning seven battle stars, while writing a detailed history of the U.S. Navy during WWII. This is important to the reader because it gives some details regarding the attacks during WWII on the Navy side of the war.
“The only convoy roughly handled was an eastbound one on 20 April, in which destroyer Lansdale was sunk and S.S. Paul Hamilton, carrying 500 men of the Army Air Force and a crew of eighty, blew up with the loss of all hands.” (Morison)
“In April 1944, the German air offensive grew more intense.”