By Bob Slovey, YN3 (’68 – ’71) Association Secretary Macomb, Mich. There has been a lot of traffic lately on the T-Bone e-mail channel regarding cigarette lighters. So, I thought I would add my two-cents […]
By Charlie Emrhein, SK3 (52-’54) University Heights, Ohio Charlie was the first ship’s store proprietor on the 1156 to make ice cream using the ice cream making machine in the store for the crew. Here […]
By Sam Portelli, SN (’57-’60) Fairlawn, N.J. “I recently was on a plane coming back to New Jersey from Phoenix, AZ, when a young lady asked if I was in the services (I was wearing […]
By Gary Benson, YN2 (’54-’56) Hudson Falls, N.Y. I remember one time we brought six WW II fighter planes – F6F Hellcats from Puerto Rico to Gainesville, FL. There was no docking there so we […]
By George F. McClure, LT(jg) (’55-‘57) Winter Park, Fla. While we didn’t know it at the time, the location for our amphibious assault landing exercises near Puerto Rico, Vieques Island, would later become the scene […]
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