Just found this group! My father and two uncles served in the fleet. My father and one uncle served together on Pillsbury (DD-227) about 1931. The other...
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Ted Margrett
yanshida
Jun 3, 2006 11:12 pm
Fabulous! I would be interested to know if those scrapbooks contain any memorabilia pretaining to the Pillsbury's stay in Chefoo. Thanks rutz36...
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Karl Kramer
rutz36
Jun 3, 2006 11:50 pm
Thanks for your note. I'm sure something is in there about Chefoo. The books contain receipts for such mundane things as laundry, room rentals, all sorts of...
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James Trimm
oyez100
Jun 4, 2006 2:59 am
... technical details of the Wickes Class DD's. My father served as a EM-1 on the USS Elliot DMS 4 during WWII. The fact that no one ever had the foresight...
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rjocl12
rocl12
Jun 4, 2006 3:14 am
If you go to the National Archives in Washington DC---Suitland MD (1st option) or Archives 2 in Adelphi, MD, you can access the Bureau of Ships records for...
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Ted Margrett
yanshida
Jun 4, 2006 3:39 am
Thanks for your reply. The sort of stuff you mention is the kind of thing I've been looking for, because they provide all kinds of clues. I've been doing...
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Karl Kramer
rutz36
Jun 4, 2006 4:06 am
Most interesting. I can understand the Navy's wanting to provide "alternative entertainment." My father told me that once ashore, no one drank the water (of...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 4, 2006 6:52 am
RUTZ36 this is NPO in Seattle... PILLSBURY? You dad was in PILLSBURY in the early 1930s? Do you have some good fotos of the ship? Also, there had been a good...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 4, 2006 7:10 am
The WICKES-class destroyers were one of the several classes that made up the flush-decker four-pipers. ELLIOT (DMS 4) was ex-DD 146. For almost all you'll ever...
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Karl Kramer
rutz36
Jun 4, 2006 2:18 pm
Thanks, NPO. Appreciate the info. I read somewhere that Maya was involved but can't recall where. When I read "Cruisers for Breakfast," by John G. Mansfield,...
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Karl
rutz36
Jun 4, 2006 5:06 pm
I've just posted several photos in a pix file named Pillsbury....
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James Trimm
oyez100
Jun 4, 2006 5:37 pm
Thanks for the tip. Do you think that item is still avalable, for instance, The US Naval Institute? ... From: "Commander L. B. Dorny, USN (ret.)"...
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Ted Margrett
yanshida
Jun 4, 2006 6:24 pm
Great photos. I am intrigued by the one under the caption "China Coast". There's a fortress here in Yantai called the Dong Paotai - East Fort, built after the...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 4, 2006 6:26 pm
Check out thew Naval Institute website for on line book sales. ... From: James Trimm<mailto:jtrimm1@...> To:...
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Karl Kramer
rutz36
Jun 4, 2006 6:37 pm
No notations are on the back of the photo so I don't have any details. I may have more when I dig out the scrapbooks. _____ From:...
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donkehnjr
Jun 5, 2006 3:06 pm
Hi Karl, Thanks for these great pics. Please feel free to post more should you find them. The photo of PEARY & PILLSBURY together in the dry dock is poignant...
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Karl Kramer
rutz36
Jun 5, 2006 3:36 pm
Thanks, Don. I discovered the error last night and corrected it. The pix of Truxtun was from a snapshot, the same size as the others so I'm assuming it was...
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donkehnjr
Jun 5, 2006 4:53 pm
Thank-you, Karl. These are a delight to look at. I know the various divisions of the Squadron were altered just before the war, but am not sure about...
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James Trimm
oyez100
Jun 6, 2006 1:22 am
I have located a copy of Flush Decks and Four Pipes. I don't know why I haven't stumbled upon it before. Thanks. ... From: "Commander L. B. Dorny, USN (ret.)"...
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Louis Dorny
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 11, 2006 5:23 pm
Don, please give us a few details on the English translation to allow for a purchase or an inter library loan request. Lou NPO15@...<mailto:NPO15@...> ...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 11, 2006 5:49 pm
Don... Here's a little piece on the PILLSBURY written a while back. Lou ... From: donkehnjr<mailto:no_reply@yahoogroups.com> To:...
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Vic Campbell
vic1949fl
Jun 16, 2006 1:25 pm
by Vic Campbell I am pleased to be here in such august company. I promise you a good talk, because I placed third in the FFA speech competition at Chumuckla...
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Jim Nix
nixj.geo
Jun 18, 2006 9:20 pm
Good Evening, to those of you I haven't met, I am James Nix. At this moment I want to thank Capt. Slaughter, Walter Ashe and Kelley Geary for encouraging me...
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Vic Campbell
vic1949fl
Jun 19, 2006 9:40 pm
Jim, this was excellent. I am glad I had a chance to visit with you at the reunion. I am looking forward to the book....
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Jim Nix
nixj.geo
Jun 27, 2006 12:00 pm
Hi all, I mentioned that Don Kehn was a literature grad from Rice. I was in error. His father was a Chem grad of Rice, Don was a lit major at UT Austin,...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jun 27, 2006 8:35 pm
Dan was a lit major from UT Austin? Fine. I am a German Language & Lit major from BYU... but I think I can stay in the ball game with Don on the U. S. Asiatic...
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gerald_hgn
Jul 5, 2006 8:22 pm
I am vexed by the following question: Certainly by October, or early November of 1941, US intel was quite certain that the Japanese were going to strike...
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donkehnjr
Jul 6, 2006 1:50 am
... quite ... PI, ... Clearly, ... class, ... observed, ... money. ... did ... after ... Hello Jerry: Off the cuff, I would say Hart certainly did not have 25...
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Vic Campbell
vic1949fl
Jul 6, 2006 7:04 pm
I tend to agreew with Don Kehn. My grasp of the entire picture is not as technical as his own, but it does seem to me that Hart's strategic picture as well as...
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Commander L. B. Dorny...
uss_gold_star_b
Jul 8, 2006 5:33 am
Gerald, your question is a good one, but I think additional info will easily answer your concerns. I support Don's and Vic's comments, and here add my own. 1....
