Fair Winds and Following Seas
Need help to find family of Quincy, MA Vietnam POW
Command Chief Master Sergeant Peters wants to find the family of a Vietnam POW name of Robert Phillips from Quincy, MA. The plaque pictured above was found at the site of since-closed Lockport Air Force Station in New York John Magnarelli, an Army veteran, brought the story of his high school friend and classmate “Bobby” […]
WWII Navy ship found more than 4 miles down, deepest wreck
The destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts, sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (corrected from 1943 7/28/22), was found in over 22,600 feet of water last week by Caladan Oceanic, the same folks who found the world’s previous record-depth wreck, the USS Johnston, last year. The wreck of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, […]
Pearl Harbor Vet Passes
Michael “Mickey” Ganitch CDR D sends us the sad news that another of the Greatest Generation has left us. Michael “Mickey” Ganitch grew up in Ohio and joined the U.S. Navy in early 1941. Less than a year later, he was in the crow’s nest aboard the USS Pennsylvania as it sat in dry dock […]
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