American tanker USS Sebec (AO-87) during refueling the escort carrier USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71). Picture taken ten days before the battle of Leyte Gulf.

Tanker and the carrier

Casualties of a Japanese kamikaze attack on the USS New Mexico about to be given the final farewell, near Okinawa.


Burial at sea

New Mexico class battleship, USS Idaho bombards Okinawa, April, 1945.  Happy Fourth of July to all of our American friends from here in the Emerald Isle.  With very, very best regards, JR.