SQ - Honor Our Brave - Owen Francis Hammerberg Multi-Cache
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SQ - Honor Our Brave - Owen Francis Hammerberg
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Located in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Main entrance is off of 10 mile road. Posted hours are: 8:00am-7:30pm daily.
The SQ in the cache name above signifies Spirit Quest, a project to distinguish those caches that are set in cemeteries or memorial gardens. Please be respectful of the area, and observe their rules and posted hours, Michigan law states that you are only permitted to visit cemeteries dawn to dusk through out the state unless other hours are posted.
OWEN FRANCIS HAMMERBERG
b. May 31, 1920 d. February 10, 1945
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Served as Boatswain's Mate Second Class, Deep Sea Diver in the Pacific Fleet Salvage Force, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On February 10, 1945, during salvage operations in West Loch, Pearl Harbor 2 fellow drivers became trapped. Aware of the danger when the divers were hopelessly trapped in a cave-in of steel wreckage while tunneling under an LST sunk in 40 feet of water and 20 feet of mud, he went overboard in a valiant attempt to effect their rescue. He reached the first of the trapped men, freed him from the wreckage and continued desperately to save the second diver. Reaching the place above the other man just as another cave-in occurred, a heavy piece of steel pinned him crosswise over his shipmate. He stayed in a position to protect the man beneath from further injury until they were both rescued. Due to the full brunt of terrific pressure on himself, he succumbed 18 hours later. He received his Medal of Honor posthumously and it was accredited to the state of Michigan.
Plot: Sec 4, Lot 145, Grave 4 & 5
Now for the cache:
The posted coord's will bring you to the final resting spot of one of America's Brave. Once here go to N42 29.046 W083 18.157 to find a message in a bottle with coord's that will take you to the final location.
Additional Hints
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Fgntr 1-Vafvqr
Svany-Abg n unatre ohg abg ba gur tebhaq
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