"A Penny For Your Thoughts" "A Stranger In The Box" I like her, Pam Harazim, poem so much that I just had to run it (the Author) down. Earl USS LSM 134 USS LSM 462 "Old Photos"

"Fighting Amphibian Song"
"A Sailors Gotta Do .. What A Sailors Gotta Do....

"The Universe Is Expanding"
Al Gore Where Are You?

"Happy New Year - 1945"
Happy New Year From Old Shanghai

"Go and climb that mountain Moses"
A Message From Abraham To His Children.
It Appears His Children Of Today Are Lost In The Wilderness.

"Time Marches On"
Yesterday's & Today's GIs

"MaMaw's House"
The Circle Game and Windmills Of Your Mind

"Dancing To The Drums"
Remembering The 1940s

"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard." ~ Barbara Tuchman I lay no claim (copyright) on my Life. I do however, "have a claim (copyright) on my Soul." All my Soul © rights reserved ~ ZOOT ~ One Grain Of Sand "PaPaw, Thank You For Your Stories. I/We Will Miss Them, When You Are Gone." My Friends .. I Welcome You "History belongs to Everyone; It shouldn't be thrown away as Trash or locked away in Dark Rooms." "The Greatest Generation With All It's Splendor - Like All Generations Had It's Shaded Side." ~ Oklahoma Sandscraper 3/c "Foot of Ferry St" "The 52-20 Club" "Oh! Sad Cruel World" "Stranger On The Shore" "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" "What A Difference A Day Makes" "The Year Of The Veteran" "Going Home" Jukebox Andrew Sisters Apple Blossom Time Rum And Coke "There Will Peace In The Valley" Truman Announcing The Bombing Of Hiroshima LSM - LSMR LINKS "The Lone Sailor" "A Penny For Your Thoughts" USS LSM 45 USS LSM 252 Hello, I am the son of a sailor that served on the USS LSM-252. USS LSM 68 My father's WW II Photos of USS LSM 68 and the Philippines. Roy Keith... LSM 275 My Grandfather, Robert Yates(1920-1993), served on the LSM-275 during the later years of World War II. This webpage is dedicated to his memory. LSM 376 My grandfather Ray Lindquist served in World War II as the captain of LSM 376, a Landing Ship Medium. USS GUEST DD472 THE OKINAWA CAMPAIGN (A brief summary of some of the incidents) Data taken from several logs aboard the USS GUEST - DD472 You will note that in on May 3 OKINAWA under numerous heavy air attacks. USS LUCE DD522 and the USS LITTLE DD802 were sunk. USS BIRMINGHAM CL62 was hit. 4 LSM's were also hit by suicide planes. All told, there were 18 raids that came in. After dark the USS SANGAMON CVE26, two Cans (USS FULLAM DD474 and USS HUDSON DD475) left the area and proceeded into KERAMA RETTO. LSM 311 Personal Memoir USS LSM 311 Howard M. McConnell, LT(JG) USNR LSM 51 LSM 51 was built by Brown Shipbuilding Company. The keel was laid 22 June 1944. It was launched 24 July 1944, and commissioned 11 August 1944. Decommissioned 8 May 1946 at Terminal Island, San Pedro, CA. LSM 220 Built at Dravo Shipyards, Wilmington, Delaware Commissioned August 13, 1944, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Served in the Pacific Theater of Operations, World War II Battle stars include the Invasion of Okinawa and Ie Shima Two enemy aircraft downed Other duties include pressure sensitive mine sweeping off Kokkaishi, Japan Decommissioned on July 23, 1946 at San Pedro, California LSM-18 USS LSM-18 was built at the Brown Ship-Building Company in Houston, Texas. It was commissioned June 14, 1944. Lt. William B. Wilder, USNR, was the commanding officer of record. NAVSOURCE PHOTO ARCHIVES Navsource has one of the largest collections of LSMs & LSMRs images available on the internet. LSM 258 Reed Kennard - My Navy Story LSM 169 Goodbye Carl Mccullough Foot Of Ferry St Goodbye Billie Smith LSM 134 Old Sailors' Memories LSM 135 Old Sailors' Memories Featuring LSM 42 This is my personal site with a page about LSM. It's just started, but I have lots of material to put up in the coming months...mainly from my dad's ship, LSM 42. LSM 371 History of the LSM 371 with photos taken from oral history of engineering officer William Carl Voigt, Jr. LSMR 409 This is a great site for LSMR's that served in Vietnam. LSM 287 This page is dedicated to those who served on board the LSM 287 The Chain Locker Links to Minecraft related sites. This is a good site with other Navy Ship info. LSMR- 536 (White River) History of The USS White River (LSMR-536) & (LFR-536) Turner Publishing Lists the two USS LSM-LSMR history books that Turner Publishing worked directly with the USS LSM-LSMR Association to produce along with hundreds of other naval and military titles. LSM 431 Facts, pictures and Personnel of the LSM 431 LSM 368 Dedicated to the men who served on the USS LSM 368 in WWII in the Pacific LSM 309 History of the LSM 309 LSM 45 The Landing Ship Medium-45, LSM 462 WW2 sailor's memories of the Past, and a tie into the Marine Corp Museum. Typhoon "Louise" The 9 October 1945 Storm at Okinawa LST Memorial The USS LST Ship Memorial, Inc. A History of USS LST- 325, 1942- 2001 The LSMs and The Sands of Iwo Jima "Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue." ~ Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Kamikaze "Fall my pupils, my cherry blossoms, Just as I will fall in the service of our land." ~ Lieutenant Yukio Seki LSM xxx Remembering The Chinese Duck..... The Oklahoma SandScrapers The Oklahoma State Senate Recognizes Their Services During World War II. Remembering Linda's Father USS LSM 168 LSM 281 aka Alfred Shelley Johnston Remembers Her Grandfather, Raymond Earl May LSM 369 Remembering The Crew Of USS LSM 369 LSM 372 Remembering The Crew Of USS LSM 372 LSM 140 Ray Plumlee Remembers USS LSM 140 and Iwo Jima LSM 462 Remembering Kure, Japan -1945. Photos and Thoughts The Sandscrapers, A Forgotten Navy The Sandscrapers is an adventure novel dealing primarily with a small segment of amphibious forces of the U.S. Navy during World War II. Searching For The USS LSM 245 A story of the days I spent aboard the Landing Ship Medium 245, as jaunty a little ship as ever sailed the seven seas. USS LSM 433 LSM 433's Crew - Going Home - 1946 LSM 114 Old Sailor's Lee & Joe Remembering USS LSM 114 USS LSM 341 SandPebbles Of The Forties LSM 137 Goodbye Joe - Til We Meet Again LSM 175 Ed Heinz and The LSM 175 Mystery Ships Tune In to The LSM - LSMR Mystery Show........ LSM Don Guillermo The Mystery and the Legend of LSM "Don guillermo". "LSMRs of FLOTILLA NINE" LSMR's World War II - ACTION REPORT - IE SHIMA and Southeastern Okinawa, 2 April through 20 April 1945.Okinawa USS LSM 87 THIS WEBSITE IS DEDICATED TO THE GALLANT MEN OF USS LSM-87 LSM 466 Howdy....from da' Mountains of Western NC, I really enjoyed your website. My dad, Lyonell A. 'Bill' Wyatt was the firecontrolman for the twin- 40 mount on LSM466 "LSM-LSMR KIA" LSM-LSMR Shipmates Killed In World War II LSM and Virginia Ferry System Another LSM Mystery Solved William Cline RM1/c USS LSM 66 The Travels Of LSM 66 USS LSM 441 My Father's Ship "USS LSM 427" A photo album of my two years in the United States Navy. Suggest a Site If you know of a web site that has related information to LSMs - LSMRs or other specific types of organizations like this, please let us know. We will be happy to post them here on our site! Beware Of The Gullibility Virus It can be caught by Reading Newspapers, Magazines, NewLetters, the Internet, and Listening to a Radio or Watching TV. Politicians, Preachers, News Commentators, Government Bureaucrats are a common source for spreading this virus. The only known cure for this Virus is a dose of Common Sense taken every morning before Breakfast. Remember These Songs In Wav Or Real Format

The Mood Of The Nation
1920s Thru 1930s

Remembering Pearl Harbor

"God Bless America"
Words and music by Irving Berlin
Kate Smith

God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains To the prairies,
To the ocean white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

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America The Beautiful
Frank Sinatra

Katharine Lee Bates wrote the original version in 1893. She wrote the 2nd version in 1904. Her final version was written in 1913. America the Beautiful - 1913 O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self the country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for halcyon skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the enameled plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till souls wax fair as earth and air And music-hearted sea! O beautiful for pilgrims feet, Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America ! America ! God shed his grace on thee Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought By pilgrim foot and knee! O beautiful for glory-tale Of liberating strife When once and twice, for man's avail Men lavished precious life ! America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till selfish gain no longer stain The banner of the free! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till nobler men keep once again Thy whiter jubilee! World War II Medley - Midi