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Been a long time.

I was at Sima 87-89 I started in the lagging shop then transferred to the boiler shop. It looks like everyone drove those vans they had me drive them for over 6 months they always put me in the big white van that thing was junk. I worked in the laggi

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RTC Orlando Mass Reunion

For all interested RTC Orlando Recruit Veterans: There is presently in the planning stages a mass reunion for all RTC Orlando Veterans scheduled for October 12, 2016. For further information join the Facebook RTC Orlando Reunion Group.Spread the word

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Tom Kitchen

Good to see a few of the older ML's still around. Did you stay in the casting business or change to something else after you left the USN? I stayed in the foundry business for awhile but it is not the same. All the civilian foundries care about is th

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Subic Bay Naval Hospital

Hi shipmates from the Vietnam era as I served with the US seventh fleet on the gunline Vietnam 1969.I am trying to find someone who worked in the Naval hospital in Subic bay at that time (1969) and can recall a small group of us from HMAS Brisbane pa

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World war 2 USA production

 
 

 

WW II Production

 
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During the 3½ years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "We the People of the U.S.A." produced the following:
 

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Dec. 7th 1941

Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him.

When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral

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