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Post by Karl Welteke on Oct 5, 2021 18:34:10 GMT 8
I come across interesting pictures, which do not seem to fit into any existing thread. Nor do I want to start a whole bunch of new threads, So I will put some of the images here. Friends, feel free to do the same. My first entry! USCGC Eagle and some of its history. Zf308. USCGC Eagle (WIX-327; IMO 6109973) under full sail in 2013, this picture came from the USCGC Eagle Wikipedia URL This is a little history of the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle. These two pics were sent to me by a friend, a Coast Guard Man and a Coastal Artillery Expert, Roger Davis. He wrote I might like them; yes Roger, I do and thanks. I reminded him though, that the USS Constitution is older than the Eagle. Zf309. USCGC Eagle, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, sent to me by my friend Roger Davis. Zf310. This looks like a recent picture of the USCG Commandant and a group of Coast Guard personal of Philippine or other Asian descent. Roger Davis sent this pic also. Zf311. USS Constitution in Baltimore, if I remember it correctly, at the time I was going thru First Class Diver training in the Navy Yard in Washington DC. This was 1969, I got the helm, steady on course Liberty Call. Zf312. USS Constitution in Baltimore, if I remember it correctly, at the time I was going thru First Class Diver training in the Navy Yard in Washington DC. This was 1969; I invited a South Viet Namese Officer Diving Student to come along. Well the pictures got me interested and I looked at Wikipedia, click here; I copied 2 pictures and a few sentences: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327)Zf313. Eagle commenced its existence in Nazi Germany as Horst Wessel, a ship of the Gorch Fock class. Horst Wessel was an improvement on the original design. She was larger in dimension and her spars were all steel, unlike Gorch Fock's wooden yards. This picture came from the above Wikipedia URL I also learned that Adolf Hitler sailed on her for 1 hour. On 21 August 1938, Adolf Hitler visited the ship and sailed for approximately one hour before departing. Zf314. Eagle in Boston Harbor on 4 July 2012 as part of the OPSAIL 2012 celebrations, this picture came from the above Wikipedia URL. Zf315. This is a very unique picture of a Coast Guard Boatswains Mate Chief (BMC), attending to the lighthouse, and taking care of much of his own chow by milking his cow. I can relate to that, I was a Boatswains Mate in the Navy. Also as an farm apprentice in Germany I certainly milked cows that way for 3 years.This picture was also sent by my friend Roger Davis. The picture came from one of the Naval Institute Publications. As I study WWII I was amazed to learn how many ships in WWII were manned by the Coast Guard. In Viet Nam, they impressed me too with their Patrol Boats; they were bigger and better than the Navy ones and their crews were more experienced. Of course we kidded them as Shallow Water Navy or the Canoe Club Sailors.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Oct 26, 2021 17:48:30 GMT 8
============================================================= German WWII News about Corregidor 8th Feb. 1942. The Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team sent this! Zf346. An image of German WWII News about the Corregidor Siege Situation on the 8th Feb. 1942. Zf347. This is the writing on back of the previous image and my translation: Title: 3528/ Last refuge of the Americans in the Philippines ============================================================== Our map transmits an understandable image of the Island Corregidor situation in Manila Bay on the Philippines-Island Luzon, which, as the Japanese small flags marked positions show, is completely encircled/locked up from the land side. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Source, ownership information: 8th Feb 1942 The other stamps are copyright statements. -------------------------- The Army Lt. Chester K. Britt Research Team finished their book, it is titled: Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt ------------------------------
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Post by Karl Welteke on Feb 10, 2023 13:06:28 GMT 8
Two Historical Images The researcher of the writing team of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt”, John Duresky makes these two image presentations. The images in this presentation are in low resolution! Zg127. Olongapo beach, circa 1935 or earlier with Dewey Dry-dock in the background at the Olongapo Naval Station, - Yard. The researcher of the writing team of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt”, John Duresky makes this image presentations. Zg128. Woman golfing at Fort Mills’ golf course on Corregidor Island circa 1935 or earlier. The researcher of the writing team of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt”, John Duresky makes this image presentations. They are posted in high resolution in these two respective Flickr albums: Uploaded to a Flickr album: Subic Bay Historical Images click here: www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157647790469238Uploaded to Flickr into a new album, Corregidor, Fort Mills Historical Pictures, click here: www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72177720305888169
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Post by Karl Welteke on Mar 26, 2023 17:30:09 GMT 8
First Pictures of Pearl Harbor Damage 17th Dec. 1941. 1941 12 17 THE SACRAMENTO CA BEE, first photos of damage at Pearl Harbor My friend John Duresky sent me this SACRAMENTO CA BEE news paper copy and wrote this: Thanks, it seems all reporting about Pearl Harbor and the fighting in the Philippines and elsewhere relied on old photos between the 1920s up to early 1941 for their initial reporting. It took about ten days before any photos of the damage at Pearl Harbor finally began to appear in newspapers like the one attached from December 17th and even then they still didn't show the damaged ships. We're all so used to seeing photos and films of the attack on Pearl Harbor that we don't realize that news wasn't fast then. Also, I'm guessing (just a guess) that the military initially censored reporting and dribbled out photos and information to keep the population from being too shocked or frightened by the scenes. John John Duresky is the researcher of the writing team of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt”. I have helped him out with some information and John Duresky is sharing almost all his finds with me. Thank you very much, John. Note from Karl: This news paper has a very small note of The Sinking of the SS Corregidor which was sunk by a US Army mine at of all places next to the Corregidor Island, which was Fort Mills then. It was a big tragedy, several hundred passengers in the US Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands perished during this sinking. In the Corregidor Forum we have a page of the sinking of this ship, it has 21 pages already: corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1168/loss-corregidorThis picture is available at this site in high resolution: Uploaded to my Flickr album; High Resolution Album No.3, here is the album URL and the picture URL Album URL: www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157715101887871PIC URL: www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/52772057320/in/album-72157715101887871/Use the required steps to download the high resolution copy!
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