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Old 08-28-2017, 04:43 AM   #34
Michele
 
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Default Re: Weird War 2 - The Pacific Theatre

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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele View Post
I found a bit more. Some of Stark's people made their way to San Francisco. If you google the army transport ship USAT Merritt, you'll find a site collecting stories of the refugees arrival in San Fran.

There's some interesting sounding folks among them, about which I've thusfar found little.

Prince Alexis Chegodaieff, officer candidate
Lieutenant General Peter Heieskanin, engineer
Captain Timothy Taracousio, aviator
If you are looking for info on these three, that article's translitterations aren't doing you any favors.

For instance, here's a summary of Petr G. Heyskanen's military career:
http://www.grwar.ru/persons/persons.html?id=9435
I found him just by looking up Петр Хейсканен, which sounded realistically appropriate.

There is a prince Алексей Чегодаев-Саконский who seems to have had something to do with the Czarist Navy, so maybe Alexis was a relative.

As to Taracusio, that's a complete oddball and I don't see any vaguely possible Russian-sounding name.
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