The last Saturday in June 1960, we drove our LCM's out Curtis Creek, to the mouth of the Patapsco River, copped a Left (portside) at the Chesapeake Bay, followed it North, through the C&D Canal to the Delaware Bay, veered right (starboard) and docked at an abandoned Air Force Base at Cape Henlopen, Delaware.
It was a 22 hour non-stop trip with 2 Grey Marine deisel engines droning
24-7. The next morning after chow, we were marched up to a theater, where the Brass addressed the troops. We were told what a terrific job we had done ...
Our voyage was equated to making the 90 mile trip from Florida to Cuba !!!
This announcement was made 9.5 months BEFORE the April 17th 1961 Fiasco ... The Bay of Pigs Invasion !!!
Sounds like a very fun trip, without the war to to go with it. You were lucky to escape the action and still get a commendation for your service. You could've gone to Cuba on a clandestine mission.
In 1968, Nick Hordon, a tech in our plant in California, suggested that I go with him on an ambitious tour of the East Coast (way too ambitious--we missed out on Boston, NYC, and Washington DC, that he promised we would visit) during our annual two-week shutdown in August. He said that he usually did it "nonstop." I didn't believe him. We took off in his 1960 Sprite with four cylinders buzzing and pulled over to sleep on any available grassy spot after driving each day as much as 22 hours and sleeping as little as three. We did manage to see much of America through bleary, sunburned and wind burned eyes and manage quite a bit of car trouble along the way. We kept an almost, military, schedule.
An illustrated developmental history of the American military chemical and biological protective respirator for use against war agents, this work provides photographs of actual respirator specimens and several useful appendices, in addition to its en
