At 2:10 is the USS Hopewell, DD-681 Destroyer. She saw action in WW2 and was decommissioned in 1947. When the Korean war started, she was recommissioned to support the war effort. She also was used in Vietnam and then sent to San Diego where she was decommissioned in 1970. In 1972 the USS Hopewell was used as a target and was sunk somewhere off the coast of California.
TF 84, the USS Cree saw action as far back as WWII. In 1978 She was hit by friendly fire (an airstrike) while positioning surface targets for training. She survived. Wikipedia has a pretty good write up.
Ha! Balboa Naval Hospital. That's where I was born in 1954 and almost killed by an inept Navy corpsman three years later in 1957. Mom made the switch to a civilian doctor when my dad's friend Dr. James Ketcham retired from the Navy and started a private practice in La Mesa. He was my doctor until I was an adult. Great guy.
Anyone know what or where the garment construction or upholstery factories in Tijuana in the mid-1950s? Was there a railroad going thorough Tijuana then, too?
