Title
Ensign Jerome Sheets
Description
A black and white photo of a smiling Ensign Jerome "Skeeter" Sheets in his US Navy blues officers' dress uniform.
Collection
USS LAFFEY DD724
Context
"We've seen more action than many destroyers that have been here 15 to 18 months, but that's what we're here for. I'm where I want to be, doing what I think I should be doing, and I'm satisfied." --Jerome "Skeeter" Sheets in a letter home on his birthday, March 26, 1945.
Ensign Jerome Sheets was killed in action fighting fires aboard the USS Laffey (DD-724) during the kamikaze attacks of April 16, 1945.
Ensign Jerome Sheets was killed in action fighting fires aboard the USS Laffey (DD-724) during the kamikaze attacks of April 16, 1945.
Accession #
2019.06
