Peter Paul Blasko, Jr

Boatswains Mate 3rd Class
PCF-89, COASTAL DIV 15, TF-115, USNAVFORV
United States Navy
14 December 1944 - 08 November 1968
Southern Pines, NC
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USNAVFORV

TF-115
USN PCF

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Peter Paul Blasko, Jr

29 Sep 2002

Peter P Blasko

REMEMBERED

Killed in action aboard PCF-89.

Terry L. Boone
mtboone@aol.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall

In November 1968 PCF-89 operated out of Qui Nohn. On the night of 08 November the boat's 81mm mortar exploded, apparently as the result of an accidental double loading, killing the boat officer and two crewmen and severely wounding a third crewman. The three dead were

Note:

Naval mortars, unlike their infantry counterparts, are not fired by dropping rounds into the tube, where they strike a firing pin and are immediately launched. The naval mortar round is inserted into the muzzle, as with the infantry version, but the gunner decides when to fire and does so with a conventional trigger.



The point-of-contact for this memorial is
a fellow swift-boat sailor,
Terry L. Boone
mtboone@aol.com 
29 Sep 2002



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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
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