the USS New Jersey battle ship.
Great pix...
My Dad served aboard the Wisconsin BB-64 at the end of WWII plus took his reserve training on her to Cuba and the Caribbean.
He was a gunners mate firing those 16" guns... He said Everytime he boarded her he kissed the teak decks.
My wife and I visited the Whisky in 2016.
Here's a photo of me kissing the deck like my Dad did. And one with Dad's seabag where he wrote down all the places he visited from '42-'46...Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Pearl Harbor, Bremerton, Brooklyn Naval Yard, Murmansk Russia, Guantanamo Bay and several more.
He served on several ships...started out in '42 as an armed guard aboard a supply ship sailing to Murmansk, Russia in the Artic. He was charged with defending the ship against the German U boats armed with a .45 and an M-1 carbine!
He also served on the USS Nitro an ammunition ship, APA McCracken an armed troop ship, an oiler and a few more.
His favorite was BB-64.
I would recommend that everyone visit a military ship museum when the opportunity arises.
Great pix...
My Dad served aboard the Wisconsin BB-64 at the end of WWII plus took his reserve training on her to Cuba and the Caribbean.
He was a gunners mate firing those 16" guns... He said Everytime he boarded her he kissed the teak decks.
My wife and I visited the Whisky in 2016.
Here's a photo of me kissing the deck like my Dad did. And one with Dad's seabag where he wrote down all the places he visited from '42-'46...Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Pearl Harbor, Bremerton, Brooklyn Naval Yard, Murmansk Russia, Guantanamo Bay and several more.
He served on several ships...started out in '42 as an armed guard aboard a supply ship sailing to Murmansk, Russia in the Artic. He was charged with defending the ship against the German U boats armed with a .45 and an M-1 carbine!
He also served on the USS Nitro an ammunition ship, APA McCracken an armed troop ship, an oiler and a few more.
His favorite was BB-64.
I would recommend that everyone visit a military ship museum when the opportunity arises.
