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ANOTHER IRS SCAM TARGETING VETERANS - PLEASE READ AND BEWARE
Fraudulent/Fake IRS Phone Calls/Emails. They do not make any such calls or send any such email. Hang up the phone or mark the email as SPAM or JUNK
if you should get one. D0 NOT GIVE OUT ANY INFORMATION.
DO NOT SELECT ANY LINKS IN ANY EMAIL OF THIS TYPE.
VIETNAM WAR - WEB Resources. Multiple links to very useful resources
Shipmate Resources Page with some new information
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*** HPRA NEWSLETTERS ***
The HPRA newsletter is published quarterly and is sent to all ACTIVE members via Email or USPS. If you get your NL via email, it not only saves postage costs (high), but will also be in color for many of the photos. So please consider using this method. NL's dating back to 2006 are available to ACTIVE members. A modified version (Web Site Version link below) is on this site. For a complete copy, use the "Complete Version ..." link below (Active members only).
(The next NL will be Oct/Nov 2016)
Web
Site version (Modified)
or a Complete Version (from the HPRA President)
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2015 Memorial Service at the WWII Museum
(Select picture - Updated 1/2/2016)
(From DD709 shipmates - submit your own)
My Shipmate - "Chico" by George Beal (50-52)
1962 Americas Cup Races by Bob Mead (62-64)
"Portholes" by David Barter (52-55)
"Shadowing a Russian Helicopter Carrier" by Wayne D.
"The Hugh Pervert" by Hugh Tulloch via Dennis Dow
(from John McNamara - LCDR - C/O 1972)
(^select for larger image^)
After the tourists have
left for the day
(A YouTube Video)
Naval Photos - Modern ships
Contributed by George Baker
3 Carrier Group
Contributed by Gene Sampieri
Select
for the Hugh
Purvis - DD709 Navy memorial Plaque
Named after a Hugh Purvis Shipmate
Select above for story, then select "Ship's Namsake"
The day the Navy learned it
could fly from ships
Contributed by Lawrence Kettenger Jr.
"MatchboxFleet"
Contributed by Lawrence
Kettinger Jr.
First day Issue envelope & last day of postal service select photo link
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During the period 1970/71, the Hugh Purvis Went through a sad - turning to - good - period up to and through the last med trip (70-71). The link below is the letter received at the end of that trip by COMMANDER DESRON 10. Both the original (copy) and a clean version are presented.
courtesy
Wayne Dupre (69-72)
to: Commander Desron 10 (clean)
to: Commander DEsron 10 (org)
