Media Category: Ze

Started this new category because Zc is full

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Ze632

Ze632 USS Ward DD-139, from Wikipedia, is steaming in the Pacific with her war point. Look at that smoke, jack, burning that old black oil in the boilers.

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Ze631

Ze631

Ze631 from Wikipedia. It was not only the Military who won the war.
Lot-5372-2: USS Ward (DD 139, later APD-16) construction and launching at Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Shown: The ship on May 31, 1918, after sixteen days work. Launched on June 1, 1918, she was commissioned on July 24, 1918. Ward was redesignated as APD-16 in February 1943. USS Ward (DD 139) fired the first shots of WWII on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. During the Battle of Ormoc Bay, December 7, 1944, Ward was attacked by Japanese kamikazes and was damaged. USS O’Brien (DD 725) scuttled the ship. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels Collection. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (2016/06/03).

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Ze626

Ze626

Ze626. The USS Ward DD-139 plaque at the corner of Building 17 at Bishop Point, Pearl Harbor. If I was the CO or Senior Chief Petty Officer of this command, I would see to it, that the stain on the plaque gets cleaned up.

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Ze628

Ze628

Ze628. The plaque and stand are commemorating the USS Ward firing the First Shot and causing the first casualties in the WWII Pacific War. It is located at this corner of Building 17 at bishop Point.

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Ze627

Ze627

Ze627. This is building 17, now the Head Quarter of MDSU-1, as I said, I was stationed here in this unit between 1981 and 1983.

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Ze621

Ze621

Ze621. This Google Earth picture helps you to locate certain landmarks of the three pictures of the Oahu Eastern Mountain Range.

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Ze620

Ze620

Ze620. One of 3 images of the Oahu eastern mountain range, they were shot on the 4th Oct. 2019 and are presented here left to right. Note the Tripler Army Hospital, the VA is also located there.

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Ze625

Ze625

Ze625. From my return walk along Lagoon Drive I reached Nimitz Hwy and H1 above me. Here I took this picture of the Honolulu Harley Davidson, a truly American Icon.

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Ze624

Ze624

Ze624. On my return walk along the Lagoon Drive I shot one picture of the entrance to the Keehe Lagoon Beach Park. This is also the best way to reach the DAV Park, from here the Lagoon Drive.

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Ze623

Ze623

Ze623. One of 3 images of the Oahu eastern mountain range, they were shot on the 4th Oct. 2019 and are presented here left to right. We can identify the big valleys where the Likelike Hwy and Pali Hwy run thru towards the east and their tunnels.

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