04
Apr
Another Interesting Guy - Victor Conner
April 4, 2020
Last month I posted about Cloyd Fair, one of the ship’s barbers. He mustered onto the
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25
Jan
Here's an interesting Boston guy.
1-25-20
About a month ago, I got emails and a book order from Brian Fair. His grandfather served on the
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27
Dec
First Pat, Now John
12-27-19
A few days ago I published two clips from my interviews with Pat Fedele. In the first, he talked
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23
Dec
Interviews
12-23-19
I have hours and hours of interviews from 7 or so years ago. I was working on the Baked
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21
Dec
Where were they?
12-21-19
Obviously, not every man aboard the Boston celebrated Christmas. But among the roughly 1500 young sailors (18 year-olds, mostly)
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07
Dec
Two years later
12-7-19
Crewmember Diary Entries (excerpts)
December 6, 1943
. . . On entering Pearl Harbor we passed through torpedo nets that are opened
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23
Nov
Thinking about War and how we "see the enemy"
11-23-19
I started recently contemplating “Wars” and how we think about them. What reference points do we use when we
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09
Nov
11-11-11
Honoring all who serve
03
Nov
Update
11/3/19
Over the last year or so, several factors that influence this web/blogsite have occurred / changed. As
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05
Oct
carrier planes
10-5-19
A recap of Boston’s station in the task force(s): Task Force 58 (and 38) was organized into
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