Retired Navy Captain, and NANP Life Member, S. Martin Shelton (aka Marty Shelton) recently released another book. Below is a short except from that book. All of his books are available on Amazon. The Panay Incident(A roman à clef) It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon on this twelfth of December, 1937. The American gunboat USS Panay plows the slow-moving waters of the Yangtze off Nanking—China’s capital. Chief Radioman Matthew Marne is transmitting his ship’s movement message to Commander Asiatic Fleet. The Panay patrols China’s rivers to protect American interests in the chaos that engulfs the Middle Kingdom. Today, the Japanese army has fought to the gates of Nanking. The Japanese bomb explodes dead center atop the wheelhouse. Fire, shrapnel, and wood […]
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Looking for New Secretary
We have a last minute opening in an upcoming election which will be made public any day now. Sam Trice will remain our Treasurer but has asked for us to turn Secretary over to someone else. We are looking for volunteers to run as NANP Secretary in the upcoming election. If interested, contact the NANP President, Sammy Solt or the Vice President, Wes Gibson.
Email from a Ranger Vet
Ken Estes <rangervet @ comcast.net> sends Thank you John for asking these questions. (the vote) I might add I have not attended a meeting since it was last held in Seattle, as I am one of those old farts that don’t have the money to travel. I did not have a Navy career and SS doesn’t go as far as I wish. But I loved Navy Aviation Photography. Served mostly at Fleet Air Photo Lab San Diego; at NAS Whidbey Island or on USS Ranger CVA61. When I was 3rd class my crow included wings and I drew flight pay taking stills of military bases or doing aerial photo mapping. I still own a Crown Graphic and a K-20 camera. […]