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26 August 1955: San Diego, Cal. - Photo taken by USS Prairie (AD15) for the ComCruDesPac Public Information Office. (US Navy photo)
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1959: San Diego, Cal. - This photo was bought at the San Diego Navy YMCA where one could buy ship’s photos. I am standing in the bow with my shipmates, I remember the helicopter coming around that day. We were in San Diego in 1959 so that is the year of the photo. We were in San Diego having arrived from Hawaii via Seattle, in preparation for becoming a reserve ship in Portland. In San Diego I attended ECM school and I remember across the pier from us they were shooting a movie about a submarine, the scene we saw was about the Navy bus hooking on to a car and towing it along.
I was on the McGinty from 1956 to 1959, in Hawaii. In the Summers we patrolled the Trust Territory and were involved in the Taiwan Straits actions and the Quemoy Matsu affair taking convoys in under fire. I have been on a number of islands in the Pacific and recently have been reading a book A Handful of Emeralds written by the Captain of USS Hanna (DE449), one of the ships patrolling before us in 1953-54. The book details the islands and the patrols and is the same as we had done. (Photo probably taken by Marine Photos and Publishing of San Diego, Cal.) |
Ron Carbis, ET1
USS McGinty, 1956-1959 |
