Y Why is completing YOUR Executor: EBA-1933-A.D. important? #USSTheodoreRoosevelt #USSThunderbolt #USSToledo #USSTopeka #USSTortuga #USSTripoli #USSTruxtun #USSTucson #USSTulsa #USSVella Gulf #USSVermont #USSVicksburg #USSVirginia #USSWarrior #USSWashington #USSWasp
Dorris Miller was the first #AfricanAmerican awarded the #NavyCross for his heroics at #PearlHarbor . He was aboard the #USSVirginia when it came under attack.After helping the wounded, he manned a gun station & attacked the enemy before finally being ordered to abandon ship. #WW2
Blake Shelton - my grandfather fought in WW1, was wounded in France Aug 4,1917 #USSVirginia #weremember
African American men and women have been serving in the U.S. Navy for centuries. Frederick Henry Carl of #Stratford served on the #USSMichigan (BB-27) & #USSVirginia (BB-13) during #WWI #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #worldwar1 #wwi
A 3rd cousin to Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Freeman Foster died this date in 1941, just after Eleanor's husband John E. Kirkpatrick would report to Battleship NC. Captain Foster's ship had been #ussvirginia who saw service in World War I. The proud Navy history resonates.
August 2010. 150 miles east of Jacksonville, FL on the bridge of the #USSVirginia , just... ift.tt/1kEf2Gw
#USSVirginia arrives at Her Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde for scheduled port visit. More here: bit.ly/22CFdSp