U.S. Navy – Page 11 – Philippine-Sailor

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In my life as sailor, the Philippine-Sailor, I saw much of the world, thanks to the U.S. Navy. It was my life and it brought to my last harbor, the Philippine. This is the U.S. Navy category.

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The Battle of Manila Bay took place on the first of May, 1898, and the U.S.F.S. Olympia printed the first detailed description of the battle in the ship’s newspaper, “The Bounding Billow”. Lacking paper, they “borrowed” a bundle from the Spanish on Cavite. As American troops began to arrive, “The Guide for Americans in the […]

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In 1898, Acting Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered the. Asiatic Squadron to sail to Hong Kong and prepare for a war with Spain. Soon the Cruiser USFS Olympia (C-6) with Commodore Dewey and his ships were about to make Philippine American history. (Chromolithograph, “Asiatic Squadron”, writers’ collection.)

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Popular World War Two poster published at a time when Americans and Filipinos were pushing Japanese forces out of their country. Earlier, after the fall of Bataan in April 1942, the infamous Bataan Death March across Luzon to Camp O’Donnell saw over 500 American deaths by abuse and wanton killing, while well over 5,000 Filipinos […]

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An Essay on Friendship by Rear Admiral Daniel W. McKinnon, Jr. SC USN ret

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On 19 May 2022, Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Carlos Del Toro, named an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, the USS Telesforo Trinidad (DDG 139).

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Zf819. 05 USS Benham DD-796 pulls away from a Carrier somewhere in the Pacific – Mid 1945. This is LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer picture, captured from Peter DeForest’s Facebook page.

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Zf818. 04 USS Benham DD-796 performs UNREP and transfer operations with a Carrier somewhere in the Pacific – Mid 1945. This is LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer picture, captured from Peter DeForest’s Facebook page.

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Zf817. 03 USS Benham DD-796 performs UNREP and transfer operations with a Carrier somewhere in the Pacific – Mid 1945. This is LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer picture, captured from Peter DeForest’s Facebook page.

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Zf816. 02 USS Benham DD-796 performs UNREP and transfer operations with a Carrier somewhere in the Pacific – Mid 1945. This is LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer picture, captured from Peter DeForest’s Facebook page.

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Zf815. 01 USS Benham DD-796 performs UNREP and transfer operations with a Carrier somewhere in the Pacific – Mid 1945. This is LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer picture, captured from Peter DeForest’s Facebook page. LIFE Magazine Archives – George Silk Photographer