web site New Website layout With all the the people like me whose reading glasses are getting fatter and fatter each year, I thought I’d use an easier to read website layout. Enjoy, Bill
crew member info 1 and 1217 with 3022 sailors watching :-) Tonight I have finished entering all the arrivals and departures of all the sailors of CA-69! We have 3,022 sailor records, as of tonight all their arrival and departure information is complete along with all of their promotions! Yeah! So what’s with 1 and 1,217? When I
Naval Records Promotions from Seaman 2nd Class As I work with the data from the Sailor Database I have been noticing trends, It’s faster to be promoted as a Fireman 3rd class than to a Seaman 1st class. In fact if your selected to be a fireman, you’ll be promoted six times faster on the
crew member info April 1st 1946: USS BOSTON in San Francisco I’ve just finished updating the arrivals and departures for April 1st 1946. In March, the Ship was in San Francisco where Sailors were busy some arriving an most departing. The war officially ended in August, but the Navy needed to move lots of men and supplies around, so some
Naval Records New: See Original Document! In my long slog to make sailor records available, I’ve decided to link the records to original sources. This has the effect of double-checking, and ensuring that I ‘get it right’. Since a few months after I started to enter data, I added the source of the original documents,
Naval Records Database Update: Reached the end of the war With my laser focus on just adding sailors on and off the boston, I have reached September 1945 when the war ended. Given the gaps on the records and the readable records this will take a while to completely clean up, but I have 2,363 records to date in
Naval Records Database update: Remembering July 4th Last night as I watched fireworks and heard lots of patriotic music and saw fireworks, I thought of my Dad and the many soldiers, sailors and air personnel who have participated in wars for our country. I wondered whether they had mixed reactions to seeing and hearing the BOOM of
crew member info The fastest way to a promotion is through Hell As I’m processing promotions for January 1944 (so far we have over 220 and I’m only half way through the month), I kept processing firemen promotions. Many promotion for firemen came three at a time, one month after the other. So I got curious, I had an image
about us The Hard Way April 3, 2010 Dear Dad, Five years ago today, a few minutes before 2 am Pacific Time, you died just the way you lived — The Hard Way. Admitted to the hospital around 6 am on April Fool’s Day, you were in a coma. You faced death just the way
beanpot Crew Lists At the end of the month, I’m planning a trip to the National Archives outside of Washington D.C. to research more information about the USS BOSTON. The archives have the original deck logs, war diaries, photographs, etc. from the USS BOSTON. The preparation has been a little daunting
about us Web Site Progress March 8th, 2010 I finished uploading a set of pictures I received from the national archives (the above picture is one of the entries). Please click on the left hand tab ‘Official Photos CA-69’. Most were shot in boston harbor after the first shakedown cruise. One was taken off the coast of California
about us Web Site Update We’ve added some new pictures into a link called ‘Official Photo’s of CA-69’. I purchased these photos from the National Archives and modified them to fit on the website. I’m trying to incorporate their national archive name as the link so anyone could order the picture from