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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.)"...
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@...> ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
... quite ... PI, ... Clearly, ... class, ... observed, ... money. ... did ... after ... Hello Jerry: Off the cuff, I would say Hart certainly did not have 25...
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...
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....
