TID - BITS
USS ELDORADO
AGC - 11 / LCC - 11
BEACON CALL: November - Whiskey - Delta - Bravo
ANSWER: Delegate
This page is for just about anything you want to share with your fellow shipmates.
Kind of like a fun page.
Remember these?
I filled mine out with out fail every day.
Mark Gage
John Spellman
Michael Swezey
Mark Gage
This was sent to me via Email from David Murdock
A Story About Keith & Donald Johnson. This is worth reading.
2 Brothers at Iwo Jima, 1 Survived
This link was sent to me from John Moorehead. This is really cool.
Robert Coffell
David Drum
Bud Ryan
Between the fields where the flag is planted, there are 9+ miles of flower fields that go all the way to the ocean. The flowers are grown by seed companies. It's a beautiful place, close to Vandenberg AFB.! Check out the dimensions of the flag. The Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions, as described in Executive Order #10834. This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5-pointed Stars, comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants, with 4 -5 flower stems each, for a total of more than 2 million flowers.
PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA
Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker. And just recently
Taken to be developed.
THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.
PEARL HARBOR
December 7th, 1941
Pearl Harbor
On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning this attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island , where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States )
In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu , he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.
At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
^ USS Eldorado Christmas Card - 1944 ^
^ Welcome Aboard Phamplet ^
^ Decommissioning Phamplet ^
^ Church Service Phamplets ^
Supply Invoice 1945
I recieved 24 orginal newspapers from Mar. 1, 1945 - June 1, 1945 +
the 2 on the right. The one on the left notes *USS Eldorado Ocean Post*
I am thinking the Eldorado had a ship's newspaper back then.
Each newspaper is 4 pages thick. Paper is VERY brittle.
Orginal Ship Photo
{ After Helio Pad was installed }
Orginal 1944 Ship Photo
{ No Helio Pad }
^ The above items were sent to me from a guy that got them in a Ebay lot. ^
^ Capt. Pond's 1967 Letter In Regards to Liberty at Cam Rahn Bay ^
Curiosity of LTJG. Alan Converse
