Sources:
- American Legion Post 146, Winthrop, Mass.
- Ships hit by U-boats: William Pierce Frye American Steam merchant - uboat.net
- The Honored Merchant Mariners of the William Pierce Frye World War II - Scott Miller Ancestry Consultant
- 39 Massachusetts Merchant Marine Seamen Missing - Boston Globe, 5/17/1943
- Merchant Mariners killed on U.S. operated ships during World War II, Last name begins with "P" and "Q" - American Merchant Marine at War
- Joseph Puorro - The United States Navy Memorial
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| Joseph J. Puorro - U.S. Merchant Marine, WWII -
was an Able Body Seaman lost at sea March 29, 1943. His ship, the Liberty Ship
William Pierce Frye, was torpedoed by the German submarine U610 in the North
Atlantic. It was the second torpedoing he suffered during the war, the first in March of the prior year when he rescued two of this shipmates. |
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