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CaptO


[i tried to post yesterday, but I'm still having issues imbedding Google Photos from their Photos and Photo Archive websites. Just had to resort to uploading photos]

 

I had never been to Hawaii before 2015. Then I had the fortune to go there 3 times for various Marine Corps reasons. I took hundreds of pictures (thankfully, I don't have to pay for developing or film anymore!) over the three trips.

 

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Book ends of the war

 

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Arizona memorial at sunset, seen from Ford Island

 

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From the Punch Bown National Pacific Cemetery

 

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The iconic Ford Island Control Tower

 

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The Swamp Ghost up close at the Pacific Air Museum, Ford Island

 

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The rarely visited Utah Memorial

 

Here are links to my galleries:

Ford Island Historical buildings

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipMOaDbB3ZIhAfoyRN1lcGw1HxhU62bY8S2XB988

Punch Bowl Cemetery

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipMWlMJvhb6xmmJrmLBTSgrzTEOL0iikROxJL9kn

USS Bowfin Submarine

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipNYVGhmDMJlJx_LCQ-yDwRDi-Qk94vtsqUOgdBN

Pacific Air Museum

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipOppGSgfzodJyeIsu8L4xHWSM3VPzr_MBLgEujr

USS Missouri

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipP-DcuqQhLnyCudCdlIVYmXu53uzTlX7dsAK-BN

USS Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma memorials

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipPnVav3sfNyIxLvFIN5vKjt4P7FWQq89EakkIEF

 

I have lots of other Pearl Harbor, Okinawa, Pacific locations, and everything else at my Google Photos site. Here is the link to the Photo Archives site that people, even without a Google Account, can access:

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181?source=pwa

Thank you for posting this. I made a brief entry on FB, but unfortunately didn't have time to post on my own forum. I have been cramming to complete my book in order to publish on time for Christmas, so that's been my focus for the past few weeks.


This:

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/104745627018165888181/album/AF1QipMNRRgOs9ItPIdkM9ZF85K01-_TdYKUhdrtjqHw/AF1QipN8CZliK4BNxIQNrMXoJTPSFNUEHe5kN4rSK9yd

And the next couple of photos that follow are from an earlier trip to the Pacific Air Museum on Ford Island. The tell the story of "Swamp Ghost"