Dedicated to the Memory of Those who gave their lives while serving aboard "The Fighting Hannah"
U.S.S. Hancock (CV/CVA-19)
Commissioned: April 15, 1944
Decommissioned: May 9, 1947 Recommissioned: February 15, 1954
World . . . — — Map (db m211506) WM
In Honor of all who Served and Gave their Lives Shipmates, Air Crewmen and Pilots
Commissioned - November 29, 1943
Decommissioned - June 16, 1970
World War II Presidential Unit Citation
8 Battle Stars
Korea, Vietnam, West . . . — — Map (db m240926) WM
Commissioned 14 January 1943 Decommissioned 28 August 1946
World War II Service
8 Battle Stars
First Night Fighter Carrier of the WWII Pacific Campaigns
Dedicated To All Officers, Pilots, Crewmen, and Airmen Who Served Aboard . . . — — Map (db m211340) WM
Commissioned 22 February 1943
Placed in Reserve and refitted many times, her Final Decommission was 26 October 1990
Iowa fires a 16-inch "broadside" to starboard in February, 1989
In the fall of 1943, Iowa carried President . . . — — Map (db m211504) WM
SIT TIBI MARE LIBIS "Light Lie The Sea Upon Thee"
This commemorative plaque is in memory of the 137 brave young men who sacrificed their lives in the Battle of the Coral Sea where the Lex went down in glory, and to all the officers, . . . — — Map (db m211458) WM
Dedicated to the Men of the
U.S.S. Lowry (DD770)
1944-1973
World War II Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen, Iwo Jima, 1st Tokyo Raid, Okinawa, (Navy Unit Commendation), Occupation of Japan
Operation Crossroads
Korea . . . — — Map (db m241155) WM
Commissioned 5 August 1938
Decommissioned 19 October 1945
Awarded 17 Battle Stars
for World War II Service in the Pacific
Raid on the Marshall & Gilbert Islands
Raid on Wake Island
Battle of Midway
Invasion of Guadalcanal . . . — — Map (db m240923) HM WM
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting
The Presidential Unit Citation to the United States Ship Natoma Bay and Her Attached Squadrons
Participating in the following operations:
VC 63, Marshall Island . . . — — Map (db m241104) HM WM
Named in honor of Private Joseph W. Ozbourn, USMCR killed in action with Japanese forces 28 July 1944 Tinian, Marianas Island Medal of Honor
Gearing Class Destroyer built at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine Keel laid 16 June 1945 / . . . — — Map (db m243235) WM
Dedicated to the Officers and Crew of the U.S.S. Renshaw (DD/DDE 499)
World War II
Eight Battle Stars - Presidential Unit Citation
Korean War
Five Battle Stars - Korean Presidential Unit Citation
Vietnam War
And to those . . . — — Map (db m243101) HM WM
Dedicated to the men of the U.S.S. Samuel S. Miles (DE-183)
~Awarded~
Eight Battle Stars for WWII Service in the Pacific January 1944-July 1945 Shot down Five Enemy Planes at Saipan and Okinawa Sank Japanese Submarine I-177 near . . . — — Map (db m243100) HM WM
32 Years of Naval Service Seven Battle Stars
World War II - Iwo Jima, Okinawa • Korean War - Inchon, Pusan Vietnam War - Operation Starlight, Operations Dragonthrust I and II
Commissioned October 31, 1944
World War II - Flagship of . . . — — Map (db m211349) WM
Commissioned, November 1940
Decommissioned, April 1946
Seven Major Assault Landings
Fedala, French Morocco, North Africa - 8 November 1942
Scoglitti, Sicily - 10 July 1943
Tarawa, Gilbert Islands - 20 November 1943 . . . — — Map (db m240636) HM WM
Commissioned
May 1944 - July 1946
Sept. 1951 - Dec. 1963
World War II
Korea
Cold War
In memory of Sgt. Solomon Wren, USMC
and all who served in this gallant ship.
— — Map (db m243117) WM
For one week in May, 1986, archaeologists from the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio conducted a dig at Fort Martin Scott to locate foundations of the original buildings.
Some of the foundations of . . . — — Map (db m118475) HM
World War II
Pacific Combat ~ 1941 to 1945
She was Called to Duty to 33 Different Islands/Atolls in the South Pacific
Awarded 9 Asiatic Pacific Battle Stars
Numerous other medals
Casualties Suffered
27 Killed in . . . — — Map (db m196434) WM
In memory of LCDR Joseph Hunt Bourland, Captain And the valiant crew of the USS Runner SS275, lost with all hands, in hostile Pacific waters
June 1943 On Eternal Patrol — — Map (db m196427) WM
Honoring the men of the USS Cabot (CVL-28) "A" Division
Pacific Theater World War II
Earned 9 Battle Stars for World War II
Awarded the Presidential Unit Citation
Named the Iron Woman of the Pacific by the Beloved War Correspondent . . . — — Map (db m243221) WM
To the Memory of All Who Served Aboard the
USS Euryale (AS22)
Commissioned November 1943, Decommissioned February 1946 and the Submariners We Were Honored to Serve
Supporting Fleet Submarine Operations Pacific Theatre . . . — — Map (db m241160) WM
Commissioned: 21 July 1920 as USS Humphreys (DD-236)
Converted to a High Speed Transport
Redesignated: 1 December 1942 as APD-12
Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Decommissioned: 26 October 1945
Earned Seven Battle Stars for . . . — — Map (db m197460) WM
Dedicated To The Crew That Bravely Served Onboard 8 December 1942
Keel Laid Cramp Shipyards Philadelphia, Pa.
22 April 1943
Patriotic Oklahomans Sold $45 Million In War Bonds To Build The Light Cruiser CL-91
20 February 1944 . . . — — Map (db m243237) WM
Fast Attack Submarine Continuing in the proud tradition of her predecessor USS Scamp (SS-277) "Still on Patrol"
Keel laid: 23 January 1959, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California Launched: 8 October 1960; . . . — — Map (db m239757) HM WM
Church for all denominations, school and community hall. Built, summer 1847, after the Comanche peace treaty made by John O. Meusebach, Commissioner, German Emigration Company. Located in Main Street between Courthouse and Market Square of . . . — — Map (db m35864) HM
In the 1880s German immigrant Christian Vogel (1824-1889) built the left half of this structure to house his family while in town for Saturday trading and Sunday church services. His son Amandus (1854-1898) and daughter-in-law Elizabeth (Weber) . . . — — Map (db m164009) HM
Erected about 1876, this building was a combination residence and business for the family of George Wahrmund, whose wife Elise had a millinery and dressmaking shop in the front rooms. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Clark, 1901-1913 owners, ran a boarding . . . — — Map (db m197124) HM
In 1845, Johan (John) Joseph Walch (1828-1914) migrated to Texas from Germany. In 1847 he settled in Fredericksburg, where he worked as a stonemason. Before Walch married Wilhelmine Gaertner in 1851, he erected a two-room limestone house on this . . . — — Map (db m33045) HM
Built about 1870, this residence was purchased by Johann Walter in 1871. Walter, who served as sheriff of Gillespie County from 1874 to 1888, lived here with his family until his death in 1897. In 1901 Walter's widow, Maria, sold the house to Robert . . . — — Map (db m196994) HM
This simple, one-room limestone outbuilding was constructed in 1903 by stonemason Emil Weber. He built the structure, which sat over a cellar, for storing vegetables, bacon, sausage, and wine. One of Weber's sons, Werner E. Weber (d. 1974), a . . . — — Map (db m164011) HM
German immigrants Friedrich Welgehausen and his wife Juliane built a one-room log cabin here in the 1850s. After their son Conrad and his wife Margaretha (Walter) acquired the property in 1873, they enclosed the cabin within their two-story . . . — — Map (db m185650) HM
Gillespie County Judge in 1852-62, 1864, and 1876-90, William Wahrmund (1824-90) hired local stonemasons H. Hennersdorf and Louis Schmidt to build this residence near his own home and store in 1875. Over a period of years, the house was occupied . . . — — Map (db m163931) HM
Built 1853 by Congregation, hewing wood by hand; quarrying native limestone; Swiss Missionary Pastor serving as night foreman at lime kiln. Texas Hill Country's oldest Lutheran Church, stills enclosed in original walls.
Recorded Texas . . . — — Map (db m157149) HM
From May to October, Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area is home to about 3 million Mexican free-tailed bats and 3,000 Cave myotis bats. Each night during this time, the bats spiral upwards once or twice outside the tunnel entrance before streaming . . . — — Map (db m71923) HM
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