Media Category: U.S. Navy
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.
22 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 […]
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21 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 […]
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20 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 […]
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19 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 […]
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18 Diving in the Tropics
Our diving barge, the HCU-1 Lift Craft LL3 and in the distance we see the famous or infamous Marble Mountains. 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 […]
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17 Diving in the Tropics
This is a diving introduction dive for a diving school student candidate and it is conducted on the front of the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966. The diving tender is John T Brady; he was a First Class Diver and our leader.
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16 Diving in the Tropics
This is a diving introduction dive for a diving school student candidate and it is conducted on the front of the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966. Left is John T Brady and right is Jim Starcher.
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15 Diving in the Tropics
We are doing a screw clearing job on an LCU Landing Craft Utility in the Danang River in 1966/67.
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14 Diving in the Tropics
This was our most frequent activity, clearing fouled screws on all kind of ships or crafts; on smaller landing boats and crafts we changed shafts, screws and bearings under water. In I-Corps there many boats and landing craft supplying the Marines all over the I-Corps. When I reported there, the personal Officer looked at my […]
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13 Diving in the Tropics
This is another typical diving job in Danang 1966/67 and all over I-Corps. The vessel in back is an APL a berthing barge, there 3 in Danang at that time. We drew our chow rations from these crafts.
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