Jorge M. Edouard Charron, son of Moise Charron and Celine Pineault, was born on 26 March 1911 at Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine.^1,2 Jorge M. Edouard Charron was listed on the vessel 'U. S. Wolf Mountain' on 3 May 1944. The ship departed Portsmouth, England, 21 April 1944.

These tankers were built in U.S. During World War II. As a T2 type, they were named after monuments, national parks, forts, battles, historic settlements, trails, lakes, swamps. T2-SE-A1 was the workhorse of the tanker fleet (481 built): 523 feet long overall; 68 foot beam ; 30 foot draft; 10,448 Gross tons; 21,880 Loaded displacement tons; 6,000 shaft horsepower turbo-Electric propulsion; Speed 14.5-16 knots; Liquid capacity 141,200 barrels (42 gallons or 162 liters per barrel). [nearly 6 million gallons]³

     Jorge M. Edouard Charron was listed as a 'Second Mate' on the vessel 'S. S. Bushy Run'. The vessel was sailing from Curacao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast, that forms part of the Dutch Caribbean. (When in 1914, oil was discovered in the Maracaibo Basin town of Mene Grande, the fortunes of the island were dramatically altered. Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch Government had built an extensive oil refinery installation on the former site of the slave-trade market at Asiento. The oil company suddenly had many jobs for the local population and attracted a wave of immigration from surrounding nations. Curaçao was an ideal site for the refinery, as it was away from the social and civil unrest of the South American mainland, but near enough to the Maracaibo Basin oil fields. It had an excellent natural harbor that could accommodate large oil tankers)

A little history of the vessel as follows: Built December 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding Company, Chester, Pennsylvania,
as 'Bushy Run' # 1781, for U.M.S.C. Then, in 1946 - Gulf Oil Corp., Philadelphia acquired it and in 1947 the name was changed to 'GULFRAY'. In 1958, the vessel's name was changed to 'GULFLION', Blackships, Inc., Wilmington, Del. [Gulf Oil Corp.] on 11 April 1947 at Providence, Rhode Island.^4,5

     Joseph Alphonse Charron was born on 28 May 1902 at Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine.¹

     Lafeyette George Charron, son of Moise Charron and Celine Pineault, was born on 14 April 1924 at Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts.^1,2 Lafeyette George Charron was Marriage on 14 August 1942.³

     Lafeyette George Charron was in Military Service in October 1942

Rodman arrived back in the Firth of Clyde on the 30th and on 1 September got underway for New York. An abbreviated overhaul at Boston followed and, at the end of the month, she resumed training and patrols off the U.S. northeast coast. On 25 October she sortied with Task Group 34.2 (TG 34.2) to support the amphibious force of TF 34 in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. On 7 November, Task Unit 34.2.3 (TU 34.2.3), Santee (CVE-29), Emmons (DD-457), and Rodman left TG 34.2 and screened the Southern Attack Group to its destination. From then through the 11th, Rodman screened Santee, then put into Safi for replenishment. On the 13th she retired, arrived at Norfolk on the 24th, thence proceeded to Boston where her 1.1 inch (28 mm) battery was replaced by 40 mm and 20 mm guns. 1943 In December she steamed to the Panama Canal whence she escorted a convoy back to the U.S. east coast, arriving at Norfolk on 7 January 1943. The next day she sailed again joining Ranger for two more ferry runs to Africa, this time to Morocco. During March and April, she remained in the western Atlantic, again ranging as far north as Argentia on patrol and escort duty. In May, she returned to the United Kingdom. Arriving at Scapa Flow on the 18th, Rodman rejoined the Home Fleet. Into the summer she and her sister ships patrolled out of Scotland and Iceland and screened the larger ships of the combined force, including HMS Duke of York, USS South Dakota (BB-57), and USS Alabama (BB-60), as they attempted to draw the German fleet — particularly the battleship Tirpitz — out of the protected fjords. With August, Rodman returned to the United States and by 1 September had resumed patrols at Argentia.⁴

     Lafeyette George Charron was in Military Service in October 1943

her baptism of fire came on 20 March 1944 during the Marshall Islands campaign. Assigned shore-bombardment duties, Wadleigh—in company with McCalla and Sage —supported LCIs and LSTs during the landings on Ailinglapalap and expended 478 rounds of 5 inch shells which destroyed an enemy-held village. Three days later, the new destroyer again took part in shooting up Japanese defenses, shelling a weather station and a radio station on Ebon Island, helping to clear the way for the 1,500 marines who soon took the island. The ship returned to the Hawaiian Islands for further operational training in preparation for the upcoming conquest of the Marianas. Assigned to Task Group 52.4 (TG 52.4), Wadleigh arrived off Roi Island in the Marshalls on 10 June, five days before D-Day for the invasion of Saipan Island. The day before the first landings, the warship closed Saipan and commenced fire early in the morning, beginning her part in the operations designed to 'soften up' the enemy defenses. On D-Day, Wadleigh lay offshore, providing predawn gunfire support for underwater demolition teams (UDTs) and for the initial waves of troops. After spending the day in shelling enemy positions, she retired seaward to conduct screening patrols. While thus engaged, Wadleigh and Melvin both picked up strong sonar contacts with a submarine west of Tinian. Both ships went to general quarters and attacked, dropping depth charges with deadly precision. A heavy explosion, followed by a widening slick of oil and debris, indicated that whatever had been down there had been heavily hit. Postwar accounting revealed that the two destroyers had teamed to sink the Japanese submarine RO-114. Assigned to bombard Garapan, the capital city of Saipan, Wadleigh encountered heavy activity of all types in this area, from both friend and foe alike, while expending some 1,700 rounds of 5 inch shells against the Japanese-held island. Not only was Wadleigh fired on by a Japanese shore battery, but the doughty destroyer was also straddled by a stick of bombs from a Japanese plane, mistaken for a low-flying aircraft by American forces, and again taken under fire from shore—all within a hair-raising space of 15 minutes! During the latter days of the campaign Wadleigh shot enemy snipers out of caves, trees, and cliffs; picked up an occasional Japanese prisoner, and rescued downed American aircrews shot down near her position. Following escort runs to Eniwetok and Guadalcanal, Wadleigh was assigned to support the invasion of the Palaus. On 15 September, she patrolled north of the islands on radar picket duty, standing ready to provide early warning if Japanese planes were sighted. On the following day, Wadleigh steamed to Kossol Roads to begin assisting minesweepers in clearing the sealanes there. Floating mines swept up by the minesweepers provided the destroyers with 'game', and Wadleigh destroyed 22 with 40-millimeter fire. The 23d, however, was deadly. While approaching one mine, the destroyer brushed horns with another, an unswept mine which burst amidships. The explosion ripped into the bowels of the ship, killing three men and injuring 20, while flooding three engineering compartments and one living space. As the crew raced to general quarters, the ship settled five feet by the stern, and listed seven degrees to starboard. Wadleigh—now sporting a 40-foot rent in her bottom—came to an even keel as the crew manhandled all moveable weight from starboard to port to correct the list. Bennett passed a towline and towed the stricken destroyer out of danger. The crippled ship, now sagging noticeably amidships, 'worked' noticeably in the swells, prompting initial fears that the ship was breaking in two. In addition, the shock of the blast snapped one radar antenna and jarred both 26-foot motor whaleboats from their blocks.⁵

     Lafeyette died on 7 May 1960, at Japan, at age 36,^2,3 and was buried at Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, Suffolk, New York.²

     Moise Charron, son of Moise Charron and Helen Lafeyette, was born in May 1883 at Canada.²

     Moise married Celine Pineault, daughter of Zepherin Pineault and Celine Bauville, on 20 June 1910, at Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine.^3,4,5

     Moise Charron, son of Edouard Charron, was born on 30 March 1847 at longueuil, Quebec, Canada.^1,3,4

     Moise married Helen Lafeyette circa 1869.^1,5

     Moise, at age 48, married Virginie Migneault on 24 August 1895, at Lewiston, Maine. This was a second marriage for both.⁶

     Moise died on 31 December 1921, at New Auburn, Maine, at age 74. His cause of death was atrophic cirrhosis of the liver and angina pectoris..^7,8 and was buried at Saint Peters Cemetery, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine.⁷