Veterans who crossed the Panama Canal
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  • Stanley Alan Garrett August 5, 2011 at 9:37pm
    Not at all. Beer garden on pier just like you.
  • Richard C Bowren August 5, 2011 at 8:45pm

    Stanley, was your liberty situation any better ?? I doubt it ...

     

  • Stanley Alan Garrett August 5, 2011 at 8:27pm

    Richard Bowman: I was there at the same time. I was on the USS Churchill County LST583

  • Richard C Bowren August 5, 2011 at 8:11pm

    Made the crossing during the Panama crisis '64, I believe. Liberty was restricted and all we had was a large field behind the warehouses at the pier for a ball diamond etc., and we built our own bar .. called "Frenchman's Rusty Roof Saloon". The situation in DomRep later wasn't much better ..

     

  • Tony LaConte ENC (SW/VCCC) Ret. August 4, 2011 at 3:24pm
    Was stationed in Panama from Sept. '82 til Oct.'86 with the Harbor Patrol Unit, Combat Craft Division. Was a boat captain for both a PBR (River Patrol Boat) and a PCF (Swift Boat). Deployed to South and Central America with the Ramo Raiders on numerous ocassions. Made over 300 transits of the Canal during my tour. Was the best duty station of my 22 year career.
  • David W Morris July 15, 2011 at 11:51pm
    Did world cruise onboard USS Stien FF-1065 in 1988. Was the throttleman.
  • Tim Plotner June 5, 2011 at 11:40pm
    went thru it onboard the julius a furer ffg-6
  • Paul Day March 24, 2011 at 9:13am
    Passed trough the canal in February 1971 on the way to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. USS Coontz DLG-9
  • Robert Teague December 19, 2010 at 8:52pm

    Passed through the canal in 1997 during Counter Narcotics Operations

  • James Reed December 10, 2010 at 3:27pm

    Crossed the Ditch in 66 on our way to Viet Nam--on the USS MAZAMA AE-9

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Points of interest in the Canal Zone

Military pictures I was stationed in the canal zone back in 1967>1970 at the COCO SOLO Naval Station (Atlantic side)  which was suport for a Naval Security Group Activity named Galate Island.   There are a bunch of older pictures at the above link .I'll dig out some other links to the mess that place has become in the near future and add them as we go. 

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