To: buccaneer81
Not my neck. Last thing you would have seen there was the Hudson River Mothball fleet (my father worked on it as an electrician).
The last thing that moved out of there was the USS New Jersey on its way to 'Nam. Saw it from my senior English class!
33 posted on
08/05/2009 7:49:07 PM PDT by
CaptRon
To: CaptRon
Not my neck. Last thing you would have seen there was the Hudson River Mothball fleet (my father worked on it as an electrician). I meant Panama City Beach. Did you relocate?
38 posted on
08/05/2009 7:57:05 PM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: CaptRon
The last thing that moved out of there was the USS New Jersey on its way to 'Nam. Saw it from my senior English class!
You sure it was the Hudson River? NJ spent her mothball years between Korea and Vietnam in Philly, tied up alongside Iowa and Wisconsin and was reactivated in the old Philadelphia Navy Yard on the Delaware Rive. You might have seen her doing a port call before heading out to the Pacific ...
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