Wednesday news

By tk
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

*Inshore reef aims to lure fish, anglers
*Heavy rains close shellfish beds
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-19-03

*Expect a mosquito swarming summer
-Brunswick News, 3-18-03

*Jacksonville Beach renourishment project nears restart
-Florida Times Union, 3-19-03

-Residents organize against city dock plan
-St Augustine Record, 3-18-03

*Crab-trap collection protects animals, boats
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 3-18-03

*Wetlands law: Changes likely to be approved
*Ship returns to pumping sand onto Pensacola Beach
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-19-03

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http://www.hrmspotvis.com/  Dutch Submarine

Sunday the 2nd. of September 1945.

Today, in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese formally signed the surrender document onboard the the 45,000 ton US Battleship Missouri.

General Douglas MacArthur conducted the formalities, and 450 carrier planes from the Third Fleet passed in massed formation over Missouri. A few minutes later US Army Airforce B-29's thundered by overhead.

My ship, HMAS Shropshire which had fought valiantly across the Pacific and did not lose a man to enemy action was amongst the Allied ships present in Tokyo Bay.

The war which had waged unrelentingly from September the 3rd. 1939 for almost 6 years was at last over, to be present here today, has at last brought home to me that the war was actually over, I had survived, from being 17 at the commencement of hostilities, I was now no longer a youth, but a man of 23.

A wonderful, wonderful moment, and an occasion that I have cherished over the intervening years.

All the Allied ships present are listed, and several photographs of that special day are also shown here.