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Sea Devil Three continues where Sea Devil Two left off. The Sea Dragon continues to ply coastal ports with their marketing wares -- and making a huge profit. This, alone, tends to encourage the coastal pirates to kill the crew and take the ship with its riches. There are two attempts to take the Sea Dragon, which failed. The first occurred before the Sea Dragon went into Taiwan to pick up the relief force. The second occurred as the Sea Dragon accepted...
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Mr. Abner Luxor, owner of Luxor Studebaker new and used cars, was highly pissed. He had been recalled to duty in the US Navy as a BM3 because he had experience as an LCVP coxswain in WW2 in the Pacific. Before he left Receiving Station Philadelphia, the power that be learned he had been promoted to BM2 before he actually reduced his time in the USN Reserve.
After an ugly trip from California to Taiwan, he joined the ship --- USS LST-666. He was surprised...
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Nora-Gaye and I lived this story, beginning when we thought about buying an RV park and living in it. We ended up in our own RV park for for more than nine years. What we relate here is how she got started,what we decided, saw, felt, learned, tried, "kicked tires", tested, and finally bought an RV Park in Apopka FL in 2002. It was a fixer-upper---Oh, how it was a fixer-upper! The first thing we did was to device a testing system for every RV park...
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It has long been discussed as to what happened in the few days before the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force and the Navy Air Armada, struck all across the Pacific beginning on December 7th, 1941, on Oahu, Pearl Harbor, and destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet. What is really intriguing is, there were several warnings the Japanese were about to strike somewhere in the Pacific, from both the Navy Chief of Naval Operations (who were reading some...
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In the continuing series, the Hoquiam returns to there North Korean East coast running back and forth between Wonsan and Sosura. Targets include roads, bridges, trains, and other targets of opportunity. She is allowed to return to Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan for short periods of rest and ship upkeep. Their favorite targets are the narrow-gauge trains that run between Manchuria and various North Korean and Chinese bases. Usually, they catch them between...
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On September 27th, 1950, the USS Hoquiam PF-5 was re-commissioned into the US Naval Service as a combatant. This ship was originally commissioned at Mare Island Naval shipyard in 1944, to serve as an escort vessel, manned by the USCG in the North Pacific. In early 1945, during Operation Hula, she and 27 other Patrol Frigates were transferred to the Soviet Navy under Lend-Lease. After long bickering and arguments, the USSR returned 27 of the 28 Patrol...
7) Cyberville
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An old sailor, Eduardo Luxor, decides to visit his old shipmates around the US. His last shipmate and buddy to visit lives in Sutter Village, California. Eduardo wants to renew acquaintance with Aldo and meet his wife Jennifer. He is charmed by the setting and decides to settle down near his friends. Aldo and Jennifer invite him to stay in their spare room while he decides what to do. His all-time great hobby is model trains, buildings, different...
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Abner Luxor, owner of Luxor Studebaker New and Used Cars in Philadelphia, is abruptly recalled to active duty as a Coxswain (BM3) with expertise in amphibious landing operations. Abney finds himself transferred to an LST in the Western Pacific just after the North Koreans invaded South Korea. The US Navy is rebuilding its Pacific Fleet to fight against the North Korean Army that is pushing the ROK's and US Army back to Pusan, South Korea. Abner's...
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Before we step off the Earth to Mars, we need to test every kind of technical machinery in use at the time of this operation. The Moon provides a great establishing base, similar to what may be found on Mars. We, the Earthians, will go to the Moon, to establish the technical data needed for Mars and other off-earth explorations.
10) Recalled to Duty
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Lee Harrison Stewart, a Seaman Apprentice, was stationed at a backwater naval station in Astoria Oregon, working in the Communications Center. He had just re-enlisted for six years to attend the Navy's Electronics school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. There was a massive screw-up with a machine card's punched hole indicated he had just graduated, awaiting assignment. The Communications Officer was very upset at Stewart believing he was lying...
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Lee Harrison Stewart, seaman apprentice and seaman, USN-EV, served on the USS Hoquiam (PF-5) as a radioman during the first two years of the Korean Conflict (later labeled a war.) In this third book in his series on the USS Hoquiam PF-5, he brings the experiences of young sailor in the 1950s to life. The Hoquiam, after being recommissioned in Yokosuka, Japan, sailed in harm's way off the east coast of North Korea. It participated in all the east coast...
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Abner Luxor regains consciousness in the Critical Care Unit at Naval Hospital Philadelphia. He had been wounded on the beach at Hungnam, North Korea during the withdrawal. His girl friend, LTjg Marjorie Hellen BSN of the Naval Hospital Yokosuka, was on temporary duty at Naval Hospital Sasebo when she became enamored with Abner. He had been shuttled from Sea Devil to a Carrier to the hospital where she discovered him on a gurney waiting for surgery....
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Now: the following is fiction. By Presidential Order, he was relieved on December 18th, along with Admiral Kimmel CINCPAC, and CG, USAPac, Major General Short. However, because MacArthur had so many friends in Congress, and around the United States, President Roosevelt decided to keep MacArthur's firing quiet and bring him back to the States for an Army Article 70 Hearing and possible General Court-martial. Continuing the fiction, this is the Article...