Kansas City Star
October 1945
SURRENDER ON SHIP NAMED FOR KANSAS CITIAN--The picture of the late Ensign Eugene E. Amick, jr. on the cabin wall of the U.S.S. Amick
made this Associated Press photograph of the Jap surrender of the Palau Islands of personal interest to the family of the Navy officer. Ensign Amick,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Amick, 403 West Fifty-ninth street, was killed in action more than three years ago. Lieut. Gen. Sadae Inoue, Jap commander, is shown in this photograph taken
September 2 signing surrender documents for the 44,000 Japanese in the Palau group. Brig. Gen. F. O. Rogers, marine island commander of Peleliu, is accepting the surrender. The Kansas
Citian was killed in action at Savo Island August 9, 1942, aboard the U.S.S. Astoria, of which he was communications officer. The destroyer escort Amick, named for him, was launched May
27, 1943, at Kearny, N.J.
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Photo submitted by Joanne Amick Comer,
sister of Eugene E. Amick, Jr., namesake of DE 168
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