I'm very fond of the bridge that's missing. They tore it down last year after building the new suspension job. The old Carquinez Strait bridge was a) opened on the day my uncle was born and b) speechified at by my great-grandfather, who was mayor of Richmond at the time (May 1927).
NASA built a handful of trailers to quarantine the lunarnauts. The Hornet has one. A couple of the others are ... missing. I wonder ... maybe in a swamp in Florida, downwind of some old trailer park ...
This duck is all in a row. (Hey. Donald totally kicks butt over that glory-hounding Disney rat.)
How does a cool old airplane get into shape this bad in the first place? Hanging out with the NASA trailers?
A big ol' ship was getting moved around. Fun to watch. Sort of.
Toughest fireboat west of the Pecos.
Somehow this little lifeboat got away from mama and it was SO CUTE.
CV-12's record against the Empire.
Marines are the shipboard police, captain's escorts, jailers etc. "MAR DET" was tiled into the linoleum.
Semper Fi.
You want stories, find an old Marine. Note the Purple Heart amongst his ribbons. If I recall, the story involved a punji stick.
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Semper fi', do or die,. hold 'em high at Eighth and I.
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