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All Hands, April, 2004

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1973

The most difficult job after finding the ruptured pipes of the wet environmental trainer is to temporarily stop the gushing water, which always results in soaking Sailors who are already waist deep in water.

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1950

USS Valley Forge (CV 45) Sailors drove hard bargains during their visit to the japanese port city of Sasebo, after having spent many weeks at sea hitting North Koreans from the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. After their short rest, Volley Forge headed right back to enemy waters to again press home air assaults.

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1989

ADM Frank B. Kelso II, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command/Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, waves from atop the sail of the nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) as she nears the pier at her new homeport of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga.

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1950

Ensign E. DeJackson, injured after flying into a wire booby trap across the Korea's Hart River, is assisted from his damaged F-9F Panther by crash crewmen of USS Philippine Sea (CV 47). His eyesight impaired, Jackson's landing was directed by radio rather than the normal visual signals of the landing signals officer.

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1943

A U.S. Navy diver, working in the 26-year-old battleship USS Arizona (BB 39), hands up a piece of twisted machinery reclaimed from the interior of the ship. A senior naval officer directs the operation to salvage materials that can be refashioned into new instruments of war to use against the enemy, whose bombs wrecked Arizona in the surprise attack of Dec. 7, 1941.

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