20th Century US Navy PIX!!
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I rode many a liberty launch from the JFK to Fleet Landing in Mediterranean ports long before('73 & "73) most of you were born!
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Missouri fires a salvo...
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Wisconsin fries a broadside salvo...
USS New Jersey (BB-62) firing its nine 16-inch/50 caliber guns simultaneously, 30 December 1986.
Missouri fires a salvo...
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) firing its nine 16-inch/50 caliber guns simultaneously, 30 December 1986.
Post card photo of USS West Virginia (BB-48) going through the Panama Canal in October 1924.
Overhead view of USS New York (BB-34) passing through the Panama Canal in July, 1919. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1986.094.001.032 via Mike Green.
New York City (19 October 1945): SC/2 Chester Smigielski, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, holds up an appetizing hunk of meat for spectators to see during the public inspection tour of the battleship USS New York (BB-34), which docked in New York this morning. The public was permitted aboard in the afternoon. Photo courtesy of Acme Newspictures via Bill Gonyo.
USS Arizona (BB 39) Seen here at Puget Sound Navy Yard,Bremerton WA, in 1921.
Oil on canvas painting by the artist Tom Freeman entitled "Last Mooring", showing the Arizona (BB-39) moored in front of the Nevada (BB-36) and behind the Oklahoma (BB-37). Photo and text courtesy of
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“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”
― John F. Kennedy
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― John F. Kennedy
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