World War II Service
Hyades got underway 11 September 1944 for Trinidad and the Panama Canal, escorted by destroyer Warrington (DD-30).
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“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
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My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
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“Finally, your lengthy service ended,
Lay your weariness beneath my laurel tree.”
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