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  • Theme from "The Sand Pebbles"

    11/02/2016 7:34:04 AM PDT · by pabianice · 33 replies
    youtube ^ | 11/2/16
    Best movie of 1966. Enjoy.
  • “What happened? What the hell happened!?”

    08/30/2016 9:14:06 AM PDT · by pabianice · 90 replies
    The Nav Log ^ | 8/30/16 | asa663
    “What happened? What the hell happened!?” asa663@verizon.net These are the final words spoken by Jake Holman in the magnificent movie, “The Sand Pebbles.” Holman, played by Steve McQueen, serves as the protagonist in the 1966 movie, a movie about the Chinese Communist Revolution set in 1926 (although about Vietnam). Holman has just been shot to death by Communist soldiers as he gives his life to save his love interest and the lives of fellow crewmen from the gunboat USS San Pablo. Making the movie was a two-year ordeal and McQueen has said that making it “made up for all the...
  • Last Panay Incident survivor dies at 95 (Sand Pebbles)

    09/05/2008 7:42:20 PM PDT · by SandRat · 27 replies · 532+ views
    SIERRA VISTA — Fon B. Huffman, the last survivor from the international Panay Incident of 1937, died Thursday, his family announced. Huffman, born in 1913, celebrated his 95th birthday on Aug. 19. He died peacefully in his sleep at noon in Hacienda Rehabilitation and Care Center. His daughter, Nancy Ferguson, was by his side. The Iowa farm boy who joined the Navy at age 16 was a 24-year-old sailor aboard the USS Panay when it was attacked near Nanking, China, on Dec. 12, 1937, by Imperial Japanese warplanes. In those days, the American gunboat, part of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet,...