And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
An SB2C assigned to USS Hancock (CV-19) hangs over the side of USS Intrepid (CV-11) after the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 30 October 1944
McCain?
ReplyDeleteActually Adm. John McCain Sr. commanded TG 38.1 at Leyte Gulf.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1975 I took a picture of the Hancock leaving Subic bay, P.I. as she passed the Enterprise entering Subic bay. Quitea sight for a youmg Marine.
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