January 17, 2025
Tag: Series x
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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I only know three sailors who were members of the U. S. Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps. And, to the man, each was most proud of being a Seabee as they were being Navy men. Because of the emphasis on experience and skill rather than on physical standards, the average age a Seabee during the early […]