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Originally Posted by Arlo
I'm deep in research (ok, Wikipedia - doesn't actually seem a bad source, overall)
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It's not that Wikipedia is a bad source, but rather, that virtually anyone can post information to it, including false or incorrect information. If you're going to rely on info from Wikipedia, just make sure you cross reference with other
reliable/solid sources, if possible. I've heard that they want to make the website more reliable and were looking for ways to accomplish this, but to what end, I do not know.
Now, you bring up a good subject. On occasion, I have also wondered about that particular name/boat. I couldn't find anything specific so I figured it had to be a reference taken (probably) from a specific book/account of the war. "Parker" is a pretty common name and I've seen at least one reference that suggested (
though I don't know for certain) that it was a generic term (
Parker Man) for someone who manned a DE (destroyer escort), though this is suppositional on my part.
The name could be related to anything from,
Foxhall Alexander Parker (
Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1878 and was one of the founders of the United States Naval Institute), to the WWI destroyer
USS Parker (
DD-48).
Hopefully, someone who has more specific details will come along and clear it all up for us.
