Lanier W. Phillips
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Lanier W. Phillips
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Lanier W. Phillips was a survivor of the wreck of the USS Truxtun off the coast of Newfoundland, a retired oceanographer and a recipient of the U.S. Navy Memorial's Lone Sailor award for his distinguished post Navy civilian career. Phillips was an African American who was raised by sharecroppers in Lithonia, Georgia and who became the US Navy's first black sonar technician. Phillips died on March 12, 2012, at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanier_W._Phillips
date created:
2010-09-17T14:54:58Z
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2024-09-03T05:08:25Z
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