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2023 Reunion

Countdown Starts Now

by | Mar 17, 2023 | , , ,

Countdown Starts Now - 8 days to sign up! Our Hotel contract has a deadline of March 25 to have all our guests signed up to receive our special rate. Also, We have estimated the headcount for tours as best we can to keep your price as low as possible.  We will have to...

March 2023 Newsletter

by | Mar 17, 2023 | , , ,

Click on the page image below to view our newsletter   For details regarding the Reunion, click on the link for the January Newsletter below USS Yosemite 2023 Reunion - January Newsletter

Yosemite Ship Saga by Dick Wibom, MM2/c

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 1

by | Aug 14, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. The entire Yosemite Ship Saga story was captured and presented...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 2

by | Aug 13, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. First Chance To Board The Yosemite The next time I went to the...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 3

by | Aug 12, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Time Was Near For Commissioning Soon, additional crew reported...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 4

by | Aug 11, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Seasick As the Yosemite steamed south, we passed the rugged...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 5

by | Aug 10, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Pearl Harbor We hadn't been out to sea but a couple of hours...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 6

by | Aug 9, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Last Visit With the USS Swordfish On one of my liberties, I...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 7

by | Aug 8, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. On To Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands The time had...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 8

by | Aug 7, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Liberty On the Atoll We had liberty on one of the islands that...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 9

by | Aug 6, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Ice, Solid Gold There were two enemies in the South Pacific;...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 10

by | Aug 5, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Dysentery Hits The Yosemite One of the things you have to...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 11

by | Aug 4, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Shaft Alley The "A" division had to help out in a number of...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 12

by | Aug 3, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. We left our hero at Christmas aboard the Yosemite. A time when...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 13

by | Aug 2, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Our hero has almost come full circle now that the USS Yosemite...

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 14

by | Aug 1, 2017 | , ,

Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. This a 14-part sage, click on Yosemite Ship Sage to read the...

Yo Yo Stories

Danny Brooks’ Story

Danny Brooks’ Story

by | Mar 8, 2023 | , ,

Went to boot camp in Orlando, FL. September 1974, finished boot camp November 1974, received orders to the USS Constellation CVA - 64, took a couple of weeks leave, then reported to my 1st ship in San Diego, California at North Island Naval station. It was very late...

Albert Seguin’s Story

Albert Seguin’s Story

by | Feb 23, 2023 | ,

My naval career started on July 28, 1944; I was sent to Sampson, New York for recruit training. After twelve weeks of boot camp, I took a one-week leave. I returned to Sampson and was then was shipped on a troop train to San Diego, California. Upon arrival there, I...

Bill Krug’s Story

Bill Krug’s Story

by | Feb 19, 2023 | , , ,

I was an old fellow when I was aboard with over 22 years of service (91-93), but there were a lot of much younger sailors, some just beginning their Naval Service.  This is of course, why we have been trying to focus on the Jacksonville area to gain some of the later...

Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer Story

Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer Story

by | Jan 11, 2023 | , ,

Jim Jewell's "Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings – A Navy Officer's Memoir" describes the first assignment of women for shipboard duty on the USS Yosemite. One of those women officers was Lieutenant Deborah A. Loewer, that achieved a long and successful Naval career....

Vincent Diomede’s Story

Vincent Diomede’s Story

by | Oct 28, 2022 | , ,

Nineteen-Part Video of the USNM Interview with Vincent Diomede The story of United States Navy Veteran, Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Vincent Diomede was presented on July 2022 on the United States Navy Memorial website as the featured article of the month. We didn't...

Buffy Lin Levasseur’s Story

Buffy Lin Levasseur’s Story

by | Oct 28, 2022 | , ,

Local Veteran Shares Story of Service Aboard Destroyer Tenders in U.S. Navy A young Buffy Lin Levasseur had finished her high school education in 1986 while employed as a sitter for a military family at Fort Carson, Colorado. Inspired by a number of relatives who had...

Jim Jewell’s Story

Jim Jewell’s Story

by | May 17, 2021 | , , ,

Read Jim Jewell's Impressions about the Sinking of the USS Yosemite If you didn't get the chance to read Jim's article, click on the link below and scroll down to the photo of the USS Yosemite. The article begins after the photo. Click Here to Read Jim's Story, "USS...

The Busy Lady by Robert J. Cressman

The Busy Lady by Robert J. Cressman

by | Oct 26, 2020 | , ,

This article can be found on the US Naval Institute website; click to read it on  Historic Fleets - The Busy Lady on the US Naval Institute website.   Or you may read the two-page article below as either an image file or a PDF file if enlarged:   Click on...

USS Yosemite 1957

USS Yosemite 1957

by | Aug 25, 2017 | , ,

USS Yosemite 1957 was published by Woody's Words This article originally appeared in our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website.  USS YOSEMITE  –  1957 My first shipboard duty was aboard the...

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