Community Leaders with Navy Region Commander Admiral Mark Sucatp
2023 Vets Day Program Harbor Singers - Director Darren McCoy
2023 Vets Day Poster - Broadview Elementary
2023 Vets Day Parade
2023 Vets Day NJROTC Color Guard
2023 Vets Days Speaker - Captain J.T. Pianetta, Deputy Commodore Wing 10
2023 Vets Day Program Co-Hosts Beth & Larry Munns
US Navy 248th Birthday - Power + Presence + Protection
2023 Reception for VAQ 134 & NAS Health Clinic at Whidbey Island Bank
2023 Reception for VAQ 134 at Whidbey Island Bank
2023 Recption for NAS Health Clinic at Whidbey Island Bank
2023 July 4th Parade - NAS Honor Guard & NJROTC
2023 July 4th Parade - Sea Sailor of the Year
2023 July 4th Parade
Community Service Award to Chamber of Commerce - Magi Aguilar Exec. Director
Change of Watch: Incoming Co-Presidents Larry & Beth Munns with Outgoing President Greg Smith
Scroll of Honor Recipient Steve Bristow
2023-2024 Board members
Hall of Honor Recepients Connie Leonhardi and Greg Smith with NAS Co Captain Hanks and NL NW Regional President
2021 Veterans Day Entrance to Stadium
Welcome to NAS Whidbey Island
27 April 2024
1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
from - http://www.scopesys.com
in military history
rom - https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com
1773 – The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and thus granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny. When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the so-called Boston Tea Party with about 60 members of the radical Sons of Liberty. On December 16, 1773, the Patriots boarded the British ships disguised as Mohawk Indians and dumped the tea chests, valued at ₤18,000, into the water. Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in the following year. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.
1944 – During the night (April 27-28), 3 American LST landing craft, conducting an invasion exercise (Exercise “Tiger”), are torpedoed by German E-boats in Lyme Bay. A total of 638 troops are killed. This incident is kept secret for fear of damaging Anglo-American relations.
1945 – A squadron of 3 cruisers and 6 destroyers, commanded by Admiral Berkey, make a preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo.
