Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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; the Japs and the heat. Those of us lucky enough to be […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 8
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 formed the rim of this volcanically rimed harbor. There wasn’t […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 7
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 finally come for the Yosemite to join the fleet as it advanced […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 6
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 liberty’s, I recall walking through the sub pens where many of our submarines […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 5
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 when the news came. I remember I was at evening […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 4
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 Carolina coast and the graveyard of ships. The sea really rolled, especially as […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 3
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 for duty. Repair personnel came in from the Philadelphia Navy yard but most of […]
2017 USS Yosemite Association Scholarship Award
The USS Yosemite Association was pleased to award its 2017 Scholarship to Alana Weston Cruz. Alana’s Great Grandfather, Santiago Sambile, and Grandfather, Angel Cruz, both served on the USS Yosemite. She has participated in her high school’s Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. Her plans include enlisting in the US Navy after college. We look […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 2
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 Tampa shipyard, I decided to go aboard the Yosemite and […]
USS Yosemite 1957
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 destroyer tender USS YOSEMITE (AD-19), homeported at the Newport, Rhode Island, Naval Base. YOSEMITE […]
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 1
Yosemite Ship Saga – Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared in 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 back on the new USS Yosemite Association Website The Saga of the USS […]