U.S. Navy – Page 29 – 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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Zc516. Canacao Hospital, from this web page: http://web2.iadfw.net/lrs/sangley.html#hospital

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Zc515. Hell Ships Memorial in Olongapo, not far from the Oryoku Maru Grave from the URL:
http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1203/hellships-memorial-subic-bay

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Zc514. John and Robert Northcott (center and right) with fellow POW PhM2c Ernest Irvin. (Photo from BUMED Archives)

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Zc513. Navy personnel from the Bilibid Hospital Unit, 1942 (Photo from BUMED Archives.

Zc378. A small U.S. Navy diving and salvage ship; photo credit-the above Pacific Paratrooper web page and LIFE Magazine. If you look closely, then you will understand why we Navy Divers called our Diving Nay ships: “Junk Boats”.

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Zc224. RearAdmiral Dan McKinnon, SC, USN, Retired, I believe he started his active duty in the Navy in 1956 and retired in 1991. I read that in 2016 that he was 82 years young. He is really a most outstanding individual that in his age he was able to motivate our Representatives and Senators to pass the law to accept responsibility for the cemetery

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Zc148. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963; the diving school had a diving boat we used to do our SCUBA open sea dives, offshore from Point Loma in San Diego, that is me as a student.

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Zc147. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963, we used a converted cargo barge as a classroom and platform for surface supplied diving training. We started out in a swimming pool, and then we dove of this amphibious pontoon causeway, alongside our diving barge, to give us open water swims and SCUBA diving.

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Zc146. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963, the next 7 images are about our SCUBA training. This is my shipmate DC2 Auman he asked me to volunteer with him for diver training in order to fill vacant diving billets on our ship USS Belle Grove LSD-2. Thank you very much, Petty Officer Auman and Buddy!!!!!!! I met him again later as a CPO and EOD diver.

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Zc150. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963; we are doing open sea dives, offshore from Point Loma in San Diego. We assemble at the descent line and start our descent together as a team. The diving training was a great experience and channeled my next many duty stations, during 30 years of service, always to a diving command or a command with diving billets.