U.S. Navy – Page 3 – 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.

04 Diving in the Tropics

Once upon the time we were lean, it is me taking a shower. Our diving barge was rigged on an amphibious causeway section. One of the causeway tank sections was our water supply under air pressure.

03 Diving in the Tropics

This was my bunk on the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966/67 for about 13 month.

Our Diving Officer Lt. Doege is monkeying around. Our Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge is alongside the dry-dock in Danang Bay in 1966. If you look close, my name says Fritz, that is what my shipmates called me my first 7 years in the Navy, a BM2 on my first ship who had come […]

01 Diving in the Tropics

Our Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Down Town Danang doing a diving job in 1966.

28 Diving in the Tropics

The German Hospital Ship Arrived in Danang in 1968, an exciting day for me, since only 8 years ago I arrived in the USA from Germany. Later I made friends with some of the crew and they shared their German beer.

27 Diving in the Tropics

This one was our most interesting job; this is a Navy manned LCM-8 the Marines required for ferry service over the Thu Bon River. This crossing was about 32 Km south of the Danang Air Base and about 23 km upriver for the famous South Viet Nam Town Hoi An. We went there about every […]

26 Diving in the Tropics

After the job was done, HCU-1 had left, we were charged to make sure nothing is sticking out of the Danang River mud over a certain depth. We used C4 to do the job, and the Hospital Ship Helgoland was clear to shift from Saigon to Danang. This German American helped.

25 Diving in the Tropics

The guy at left is me, yours truly. This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. […]

24 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]