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DO YOU REMEMBER THESE MEN? Most of today's people don't have any idea who these Men were and that's a pity. George Gobel comedian, Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said "the Japs didn't get past us. Sterling Hayden...

Our comittee of 6 (selected at the last reunion) voted on many locations and it was decided that our reunion will be held in Charleston, SC next year, probably in September. Rick Warden and I will travel there some time this year to work out the details. Tin Can Sailors is having their reunion in Ch...

I just noticed your posting, Darwin.

Happy late Thanksgiving to you and Merry Christmas.

September 25-29, 2013 This year, our reunion is being held at the Academy Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Reunite with your shipmates and share photos, cruise books, videos and stories about our great adventure on the high seas. There will be shipmates who served on board during the Korean War ...

Who the heck was Kilroy? In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the REAL Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forw...

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Subject: Fwd: Sailor Bars -- A Trip Back in Time -- Forever Gone Sailor Bars -- A great look at a vanishing American Navy Sailor Bars Think John Bulls in Piraeus, Mamas in Naples, Jimmy the Greeks in Malta, Pauline’s in Olongapo, the Rio, the Admiral and the Three Sisters in Olongapo, Kaoshung, Pusa...

Surviving shipmates of the USS Arizona disaster have chosen to have their ashes interred within the ship's remains.

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Here is a complete video of the Japanese Surrender in 1945.

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Yeah, I remember that we paid her in brass too.

One time, one of the shipmates picked up a puppy in one of our ports. I think it was Subic.
He was told he had to get rid of it the next time we were in port.
That next port was Hong Kong.
The puppy was given to one of the paint crews.