by alan | Feb 3, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
Nina Odele Women have had a continuous and growing presence in the U.S. Navy throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Women worked as nurses for the Navy as early as the American Civil War. The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established in...
by alan | Jan 24, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By A. R. Graham The wealthy guests of John D. Spreckels’ once went riding across North Island hunting jackrabbits. The land was then separated from Coronado by the ‘Spanish Bight’, a shallow channel that ran from the Pacific Ocean to the bay. Used in the late 19th...
by alan | Feb 2, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
Admiral George Stephen Morrison George Stephen Morrison was a Rear Admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy. Morrison was commander of the U. S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964. He was the father of Jim...
by alan | Feb 11, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By:Nina Odel AKA Lynne Harpst In the middle of the 300 block of Eighth Street stands a classical Spanish villa. Typical of many of the beautiful homes built in this style in Coronado in the 1930s, the residence is a treasure of our island. It...
by alan | Feb 6, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
General Mess Manual and Cookbook, U.S. Navy. [First US Navy cookbook issued in 1902.] Traditional Navy Recipes Do you miss some of the traditional fare from the mess decks aboard ship? Here are recipes for a number of Navy dishes from 1958. Now, invite a lot of old...
by alan | Jan 29, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
The Navy Hymn Eternal Father, Strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bid’st the mighty Ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to thee, for those in peril on the sea. O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard And hushed...
