Honolulu Festival’s Nagaoka fireworks
Nov 30, 2019
I hope you will have, or had, the opportunity to view the Honolulu Festival’s Nagaoka fireworks presentation this year. There is a special significance to them, if you are not already aware.
Every...
The Daily Prayer, September 2, 1945
Nov 30, 2019
The following are excerpts, pages 147 – 150, from the Reminiscences of Captain Roland W. Faulk, CHC, USN, 1937 – 1968, a 465-page bound edition of transcripts from a series of oral history...
Preceding Statehood: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy on January 17, 1893
Nov 30, 2019
The landing force of the USS Boston, on duty in Honolulu at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, on January 17, 1893. Source: Archives of Hawaii photo collection.
On August 21, 1959,...
Mission to Mukden
Nov 30, 2019
Former POW’s Lt. General Jonathan Wainwright, commander of Allied forces in the Philippines, and Lt. General Arthur Percival, commander of Allied forces in Malaya and Singapore, (standing behind...
The War Correspondents
Nov 30, 2019
We tend to overlook them, those who were also present aboard Missouri on September 2, 1945 as General MacArthur stepped to the microphone to begin proceedings to formally end World War II.
They were...
For Conspicuous Gallantry - The USS Michael Murphy
Nov 30, 2019
The USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) was welcomed home to Pearl Harbor this morning with ship’s horns sounding.
The Arleigh-Burke guided missile destroyer is returning from deployment in the U.S. 4th...
The Evolution of Fueling at Sea
Nov 30, 2019
Fleet Oiler USS Sabine (AO 25) refuels the carrier USS Enterprise (CV 6) while underway during the WWII Doolittle Raid operation in April 1942
Chester Nimitz first became acquainted with the...
I Christen Thee Missouri…
Nov 30, 2019
Miss Jane Tunstall Lingo, Sponsor Miss Mary Margaret Truman and the Honorable Harry S. Truman, Senator from Missouri, at the launching of Battleship Missouri at Brooklyn’s New York Naval Shipyard,...
Sasebo
Nov 30, 2019
Sasebo Harbor with Seishin Cathedral in view (also called Miura-cho Catholic church).
It began as a small fishing village, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, eventually becoming part of the Hirado...
Operation Magic Carpet
Nov 30, 2019
Left Image: USS Missouri underway with her escort, the destroyer USS Kimberly, September 1945
Right Image: More than 29,000 servicemen returned home aboard the USS Saratoga, more than any other...
9/ll Where were you, that early Tuesday morning, 18 years ago, September 11, 2001?
Nov 30, 2019
If you were in Hawaii, you remember those early morning phone calls from friends or family, telling you to wake up, to turn on the TV, to watch, as that unspeakably tragic event unfolded before our...