This episode of the venerable TV show NAVY LOG, “Ghost Ship” aka “Don Frost”, released May 8th, 1956, could best be titled “In search of a Hero”. It takes place in August of 1945 off the coast of Luzon. The ship’s namesake, seaman first class Don D. Frost, was a hero who saved his ship while dying in 1943 near New Guinea. The connection between both ships takes on a ghostly semblance when an unknown hero of the USS Frost took a similar dying action that seaman first class Don Frost did in 1943. That action was to steer his ship out of harm’s way from an approaching deadly torpedo. This episode asks whether the ship’s Captain of the USS Frost was correct in assigning an act of providence as the reason for their survival instead of an act of heroism from a crew member. You be the judge after viewing this episode!

This episode stars:

Jerry Mickelsen …… Don Frost

William Henry …….. Skipper

Wilfred Knapp …….. Captain A.C. Crawford

Raymond Greenleaf …. Secretary of Navy

You Should Know: This episode is a fictitious rendering about a ship, the USS Frost, DE-144, which spent most of the war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatre of operations. Also there was no Naval Medal of Honor recipient named Donald Frost.

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