A fact from Francis A. Dales appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
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The Operation Pedestal page, and Shankland and Hunter, Malta Convoy, p. 15, say that the Ohio was built and launched in Chester, PA, not Wilmington, DE, as stated here.
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