My father served on the battleship Wisconsin as a Midshipman First Class during the summer of 1959. I know they sailed through the Panama Canal and he told me that there was just barely enough for them to pass.
That’s so cool! I’m a colossal ship nerd, hence the hat. I will admit I bought a Philippine Seas hat because that was the ship my grandfather served on during peacetime. But I don’t plan to wear the hat out in public. Those hats with ships on them are the coolest snapbacks ever.
MASH Japan, just had knitted waistband replaced on a blue ‘vintage’ series.
Did your father graduate from Annapolis?
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