My grandfather served aboard the Iowa during WW2 (43-45) He told of events such as traveling the Panama Canal on the way to the Pacific, the Liberation of The Philippines, and encountering a typhoon which inflicted damage on the ship. The Iowa was in dry-dock for repairs: Dec 44-March...
Fernando Cuevashonored in Texas' Ennis Daily News in a two part story Click here for Part 1 (October 15, 2007)/Click here for Part 2 (October 16, 2007) Press Release- U.S.S. Mississinewa location found! Read Naval History Magazine's April story about finding the AO-59(must be a ...
She saw only stateside service during hostilities in the First World War, but notably escorted President Woodrow Wilson on his way to the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the war. She then mostly served in a training capacity until the beginning of the American involvement in WW2, where ...
During Operation Torch a young reporter was staying on the USS Texas and on the way back Norfolk, Virginia he wanted to beat his rival (who was on the USS Massachusetts) so he could get the first report in on Operation Torch. He was given permission to be flown in when the ship got ...
In a dive, pilot Evans in his Texas drawl says "A've got it." click here Can you actually face it? The REAL speech that General Patton gave to his troops, not the clean-up version from the movie. YORKTOWN SAILOR SHIP'S STORE allied with SoldierCity.com A portion of your purchase ...
APR 1943 - Keel Date: 30 APR 1943at Brown Shipbuilding Houston Texas JUL 1943 - Launch Date: 15 JUL 1943 OCT 1943 - Commissioned: 29 OCT 1943 OCT 1969 - Decommissioned: 17 OCT 1969DE-386 General Specifications Class: Edsall-class destroyer escort Named for: Walter Samuel Savage Complement:...
Reminds me of the one I love, deep in the heart of Texas." I hated like that song then, but now Ive mellowed and think its a pretty nice tune. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The final and most disastrous naval operation of the War was the invasion and taking of the island of Okinawa in April...