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USS Iowa (BB-61) receiving supplies from the ammunition ship USS Butte (AE-27) during an underway replenishment, 1984

USS Butte was my ship, I served on it in the early 70's.

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Underway replenishment (un rep) was interesting. If civilians would do the same thing, OSHA would have a fit.
 
The USS Gerald Ford CVN 78 leads a column of vessels including ITS Cavour (C550), USS Mount Whitney LCC 20, ITS Ciao Duilio (D554), ITS Virginio Fasan (F591), and USS Normandy CG 20 - U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maxwell Orlosky

ITS Cavour (C550) is an Italian aircraft carrier
ITS Ciao Duilio (D554) is a destroyer of the Italian Navy
ITS Virginio Fasan (F591) is a Carlo Bergamini-class frigate of the Italian Navy.

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J.J. McDaniels said:
Fantastic shot of The Constitution.
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Back in 1982 we did an east coast history tour. The 300-year anniversary of Philidelphia etc. I spent a day touring this wonderful craft, in Boston, as it sat in drydock, its hull being rebuilt one giant timber at a time.
The process of building these tall ships is an amazing combination of brutal effort and genius.

Awesome.
 
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my dad was 'Ship's Company' on the USS Consititution circa late 1940's. as he related, 'top boot campers' got a pick of duty - since his family was in Brooklyn, he picked the Constitution.
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fast forward many years. . . I was assigned to new commissioning duty - commissioning happened in Boston at minus 4 billion degrees - right across the pier from the USS Constitution. my parents attended, my dad tried to hide his emotion, but yeah I saw it.

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while at the Boston Navy shipyard, I inquired with the Constitution repair staff - if you ever need a favor, just ask a Chief for a favor for another Chief . . . so I came up with a really nifty Christmas present for my dad - a chunk of the original stem....
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chowderman said:
my dad was 'Ship's Company' on the USS Consititution circa late 1940's. as he related, 'top boot campers' got a pick of duty - since his family was in Brooklyn, he picked the Constitution.
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fast forward many years. . . I was assigned to new commissioning duty - commissioning happened in Boston at minus 4 billion degrees - right across the pier from the USS Constitution. my parents attended, my dad tried to hide his emotion, but yeah I saw it.

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while at the Boston Navy shipyard, I inquired with the Constitution repair staff - if you ever need a favor, just ask a Chief for a favor for another Chief . . . so I came up with a really nifty Christmas present for my dad - a chunk of the original stem....
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WOW!

All I got was a "T" shirt.
 
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FrancSevin said:
Back in 1982 we did an east coast history tour. The 300-year anniversary of Philidelphia etc. I spent a day touring this wonderful craft, in Boston, as it sat in drydock, its hull being rebuilt one giant timber at a time.
The process of building these tall ships is an amazing combination of brutal effort and genius.

Awesome.
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She's been in active service since 1797. That's incredible. I'm just happy she's been very, very, very well maintained all this time.
 
Doc said:
Truly AMAZING.

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Arguably, the B-24 won the war in Europe. Not just because of its abilities, but because we could make so many of them.
Many historians claim that the reason Hitler's Germany lost was because he never allowed them to build a four-engine bomber. As a result, he could not bomb our cities and factories as we did his.
 
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