What I do on Wednesdays

[1978 NYB]

Let me make a correction.....

The entire Greatest Generation are my heroes!!!

 

[tbm3fan]

That was taken from the USS Willamett AO 180. I have a few pictures of her including that one, they were in a packet of an aerial fly around after drydock, BTW same yard that built the Exxon Valdez, plus 2 cruise books, a couple of ship zippo lighters and probably a couple of hats. A lot of good memories of my time on that tin can didn't know it then. Bought both my cars in San Diego, one from a guy on the ship the other right out of the local classified paper the day we pulled in from 1st west pac.

I was aboard the Willamett in 2010 and 2011 as she was just 10 miles away from me.

 

[tbm3fan]

Let me make a correction.....

The entire Greatest Generation are my heroes!!!

Floyd was the preferred helmsman of the Hornet when under attack. Back then there was and still is an open bridge on her at the O7 Level. At battle stations you were in the confined Pilot House and there was no Captain's Bridge like today. The Captain would sit off to the left of the helm. When under attack, the noise was so loud it was hard to hear, and so the Captain preferred Floyd because the two of them had down the hand and eye signals the Captain would use telling Floyd which way to steer.

My father called me Friday to tell me he was admitted to the hospital. He had some issues with balance and soreness on the left temporal side of his head. MD's needed to be prodded to get him in earlier for a check as I suspected temporal arteritis or a possible clot. Turns out it is a clot they need to find and in the meantime they found a small spot in the upper lobe of one lung. He will turn 88 in April

Was in the 32nd Infantry Division for 2 1/2 years in the Pacific as a Pfc. and Sgt. The young guy on the right. The only shot of him in the Pacific anyone has. This on Leyte.

 

[tbm3fan]

That was taken from the USS Willamett AO 180. I have a few pictures of her including that one, they were in a packet of an aerial fly around after drydock, BTW same yard that built the Exxon Valdez, plus 2 cruise books, a couple of ship zippo lighters and probably a couple of hats. A lot of good memories of my time on that tin can didn't know it then. Bought both my cars in San Diego, one from a guy on the ship the other right out of the local classified paper the day we pulled in from 1st west pac.

Willamett on her last days now.

http://navy.memorieshop.com/Willamette/Brownsville.html

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I don't really remember the Willament where was her homeport. CDoes the Navy even maintain a fleet of oilers and tenders anymore or is that all done by USNS fleet. I'll snap a couple of pics of the ones sitting in Baltimore next time I am loading out of ruckerts at the port there. I got the coordinates for where the Hepburn went down but I can't get Google earth to pin it, of course I probably not doing it right.

 

[tbm3fan]

Probably Pearl as most all the pictures I've seen of her are from around Hawaii.

Yes, all replenishment ships are USNS.

 

[Big_John]

One of my brothers was on the Spiegel Grove. That ship became an artificial reef off of the Florida Keys.