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As he is talking about crew members that have passed. I'm reminded of my Father who was the last living crew member of his ship, USS John D. Ford DD228,. Fair winds and fallowing seas to all of our heros who brought the Awesome Panche of the United States Navy to the Japanese IJN. RESPECT AND HONOR!

Thanks for the travel log in Poland. Interesting times ahead for the Polish military. Hopefully not TOO interesting.

i'm getting horrors thinking about the guys trapped in there during combat. those guys had balls the size of planets.

My dad served on the USS Prichett (DD561) during the Korean War. He always mentioned "SOS" as part of the food served. It would have been interesting for him to see this video, but he passed in 2002. Thanks for posting this video.

How long did reloading the 20mm drums take?

14:53 The red seat is called the "hot seat". That one in particular is meant for sailors who got STIs from their "adventures" on shore or with their fellows.

Its very difficult to visit the ship as it is still dazzle painted and very hard to see.

No gambling with money.....uh my Navy experience belies this statement, but OK

5:48 That Photo looks like Steve Mc Queen ? the Actor (Bullet , The Great Escape) Le Mans Race car Driver

Explain the red seat in the toilet

Another advantage to the gyro compass is that it produced an electric signal. This could be fed into the CIC for operators there to see and to radars and enable north to show up on the radar plot as well as relative to the ship's heading.

Presentation and description by the volunteers are exceptional . you held my attention for the entire six episodes. Thank you .

Gotta work your way up! Dad started washing dishes and cleaning the head, in that order. 😮

I still have my father’s Navy seabag, pea coat, and a (stolen?) 100% woolen blanket. They’re high quality, tough, indestructible! The blanket I put on my bed as a bottom sheet. I use over me a goose down comforter covered with an Army (stolen by my Uncle?) blanket. Both enlisted in 1945 and were deployed to the Pacific theatre, ready to invade Japan, just in time for the Japanese surrender.

It has to be said that the British first trialed a bullpup design in the 1950s, using an intermediate cartridge. It was pretty OK too by all accounts, however the Americans insisted on the continued use of the 7.62 round and so it had to be scrapped. Then they later decided that the 5.62 should eventually be used and the rest, as they say, is history. A similar thing is happening now with the smooth bore tank gun, although with a little more merit, to be be fair. The shape of the foregrip very reminiscent of that limited production piece in the foreground, except being made from wood.

I'm a chef at sea, the cook thing hit home 😂😂. If we don't have chips and pasta there's always people complaining

There's a big difference between a porthole and a window.

You can tell that those two guys are genuinely passionate about they are doing. I bet that old man can talk for hours about the intricacies and histories of it all with a smile on his face.

THANK YOU guys, for saving A/T AETOS

How much hard liquor do to trade a usmc marine in ww2 for an air cooled .50 caliber machine gun?

I sure appreciate this series you're doing, it's great to watch. I'm near the one down here in Galveston. For little boats they sure are big! This one down here needs a little paint, but one thing's for sure: She's not going to sink. 😁

Knew a radioman who served on decorated DE USS FROST

I can recall the long delayed mail ... That was 60 years ago in Vietnam. Got a bunch of letters with smeared ink and found out the helicopter went down, Now I was worrying about the mail guys too so later when i got the chance, I volunteered for that part time also. I had to, recently, study for Navy electrician. I did not find the exams difficult. The reason is that I found no other way to be sure about details such as if there might be resistors phase to ground (there might) or that there was no neutral (delta config) or what the heck the repair electrical plugs might be and what to find in a repair locker (it's slightly different the bigger the ship and least to degree). I am EE designing new equipment. I knew O5 and O6 officers (they should retain their specialties as opposed to like O7) but I could never find one who knew even if their was a 440VAC ground or neutral (there isn't). I found a CPO who knew the course materials were on line and I could get at it. ....and he also knew there was no ground or neutral for good reason and the rating of the 110VAC sockets etc. I got to spend time with this retired CPO but sure would have liked to go on a ship and talk to the ratings. We do have one fellow with that privilege. So I came away impressed about how much thought and experience was put into the ship design and operating procedures per condition. I never found info like that in the Army base library way back when.

Excellent video and volunteer's on the ship giving tours. Very knowledgeable. More videos please.

My stepdad told me his father was chief petty officer on a destroyer escort during the korean war

aside from the technology, the look of the inside of a navy ship has changed very little

Tatenll DDG 19.. Out of Mayport ,Florida

I'll bet the Stewards were just happy as clams to have to scrape up wet, smashed bread off the tables.

Served in the early 70's De1026 and DD869 and ultimately CVA19 in engineering. Thanks for your video.

I'm 70, ex navy (Aus) and I think the messdeck is primitive

Mine best command of 27 years was the USS STIMP DD-978, Spruance Class Destroyer. Great crew, fantastic Captain, Capt. Perrota, and we drove the Russian submarine fleet absolutely crazy. Love it and miss it greatly.

US N 1969 and my SHIP L. S. T. was commission in 1945

HOT SEAT! Red Kraper. 😳

Those sailors would have been wearing blue hats, not white, in the engine room.

Funny they failed to tell us about the “red” toilet seat. Some sailors came off liberty with all kinds of groin funk and were required to use that seat until cured. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Those trays were still in use in the 80s

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4:34 In the early 1980’s my WW Navy Veteran grandfather took care of us kids after my mom suffered a complicated broken arm. He fought in the Gilbert’s, Carolina’s and Marianna’s. He was also part of Guadalcanal. Unlike specific Marine divisions, the Navy was everywhere with the same ships companies. Papa made us WW2 Navy oatmeal or SOS for breakfast. The SOS wasn’t our favorite because we were too young to appreciate it but we thought the oatmeal was great. It was made sticky in a loaf pan. Then you’d slice it, plate it and bore a hole in the middle of your slice with your spoon while it’s nice n hot. Into that hole went the butter, sugar and a little milk. You’d then macerate it into typical oatmeal consistency from the hole outward. But papa liked his with butter, salt and black pepper. He laughed and told us that all the Oakies and Arkies shipboard ate it that way and that shipboard oatmeal was a company favorite. As an adult I now realize that in 1930’s rural Oklahoma folks like Grandpa Weaver’s family couldn’t afford to let their kids put several table spoons of precious sugar onto hot cereal. Especially eaten almost daily (also why creamed chipped beef on toast was considered excellent.) I remember those mornings in 1982 like yesterday. Not 42 years ago. We lost papa three years later when I was week shy of 13. The non filtered, rowdy ports of call lifestyle caught up with him at age 59.

I have s question. What exactly is, and where's the normal location of the CLIP SHACK? I've heard references to it when talking about the old four pipers.

My grandfather was the commander of the USS Bull during the battle of the Leyte Gulf.

These can’t be military personal.

Nice job to all! Great tour of the engine rooms John!

My first ship was a WWII Destroyer Leader, DL-2, USS MITSCHER, later converted to DDG-35.

My father was a radar man on DE338 USS Martin H Ray when it was transferred to the Pacific Ocean

A better America back then

She’s a beauty! And so are the volunteers and contributors.

BS the helmsman steered the ship by the gyro compass it wasn't a backup

I did a number of TAD to various ships in my career, but my only permanent party was the USS Nassau, commissioned in 1979. Its odd to watch this and see how much the p-ways and doors still remind me of a ship built much later, even though there was much more modern equipment than this. Still, this was a great video tour.

Gyro compass gives you true north where magnetic gives you magnetic north which is constantly moving