Hello all, This is Eric Niderost, and I have added a photo to the "album"-- it's a picture of the 1st battalion, Fourth Marines withdrawing from Shanghai, Nov...
Hi, I just made an album--three photos to start, including the one already sent. The story of their departure can be read in my article in WWII magazine "Lost...
These photos are haunting. There is an amazing string of history from the point of these photos into the past -- and forward! It is as if a period at the end...
Well said, Vic. When I looked at the photos they really grabbed me but I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly why. My dad use to tell me stories about...
... Yes Vic, I feell exactly the same way- haunting- an end of an era-- end of, as I said, the US as a semi-colonial power in China--that dated back to the...
Hello all, I've put more photos on in the Fourth marine Shanghai album-- subject is the same-- departure of the Fourth Marines, end of an era-- Nove 28, 1941. ...
Hi, As many of you know I've been processing some film found in my Uncle's home after he passed away four years ago. I have some of the Asiatic fleet footage...
Jim, It is good to see this at last available. I will be ordering one of these myself. May I suggeset for ease of handling that you set up yourself an account...
Hi all, Please respond to my email address and not the Fleet group email. Sorry. There will be a short delay, 2 weeks, before orders can be processed as I...
Hello, I've posted another album--this time, it's from my collection of Old Shanghai items-it's a soochow creek medal of 1937 When the Sino-Japanese war broke...
Dear all, I don't remember seeing or even being interested in the Soochow Creek medal when I was on the Asiatic Station in Shanghai. I probably heard of it...
I just received a letter of violation for displaying the American flag at the apartment I lease. I have lived there for almost 3.5 years, and have flown the...
you want a diplomatic solution? Or a not so diplomatic solution? Brandon kelleygeary <kelleygeary@...> wrote: I just received a letter of violation for...
Kelly, Do you want the suggestions that are actually fit to print or the ones which will be considered physically impossible for them to do? Actually, you have...
hello all, I'd like to annouce that my article on Donald Versaw, Fourth Marine bandsman, has been published in WWII History magazine, Jan 2007 issue. Don, who...
Vic, I can't believe that two months, not two weeks have gone by. Sorry I did not respond sooner. I am burning them one at a time, 3 a day and I don't ...
The new book SHIP OF GHOSTS by James D. Hornfischer is a must read for all of us who are interested in the Asiatic Fleet. It tells the story of the HOUSTON...
I look forward to the article - having recently completed the book. It is truly an excellent work and should be widely read. May I also suggest a recent work...
My uncle Robert H. Pullen (aka "Sam") was an A.A. first loader on the top deck of the Houston. As a POW, he aided the CO, Lt. Comdr. Harold Hamlin, Jr., by...
I just posted 2 pictures. The first one is the crew of the Houston taken Sept. 1941 or later (that's when my uncle was aboard). The second is of one of my...
Clay, I rec'd an email from Don stating as such. He also sent a picture which I am going to use for my model. I am currently reading some of my uncle's letters...
I interviewed a number of the survivors and of course at the time, Otto Schwarz was one of the most available to me since I live in NJ. It was Otto, I think,...
Thanks, Vic. As I look at all the photos online, it does look like the sides and everything else is the same color (Cavite blue). The upper portions appear to...
