Steeljaw Scribe

Listen as you tread the decks on the mid-watch, or swing at anchor on a foggy morn – listen and you can hear the voices of those who went before us:

Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of Torpedo Six (USS Enterprise) off Hawaii for battle fleet exercises (1941)

What lessons are being taught?  What wisdom passed?  Are we still linked today  ?

Enterprise (CV 6) flight deck crew debrief (1941)

Could they have known what the future, the future of a few short months or several years later  might hold for them – young sailor, ancient mariner?

CO of the USS Idaho (BB 42) inspects the crew – 1941

Listen to the ghosts talk – of ships great and small  

USS Wilson (DD 408)

…talk of what once was

Battle Fleet maneuvers off Hawaii – 1941

- and what it became

Battleship Row – Dec 7th

To rise again, with a vengeance,

Battle Line – Leyte Gulf

And on the wings of the breeze, as the moment fades, comes a solitary word -

Torpedo Six off Hawaii – June 1941

…‘Remember‘…

(All pictures are from the newly opened Life photo archives 6)