Jeepers Andy, this archive nearly got away, slipped under my radar 😮 Salute out to all the guys who served on the Bunker Hill and thoughts to all those who didnt make it back to base. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

🇫🇴🇬🇧 Aloha Andy, so we're all back on the Islands this archive, everyone on R&R, crisp whites and uniforms, away from the workload prepping for the conflicts. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

My BMI is normal, with daily work. ALL my friends are FAT.....

Bunker Hill battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill and the Brits won. What a name for a ship.

I loved the Y during the 50's and 60's..... Swimming nude with buddies was relaxing and exhilarating. I really miss it in my twilight years .

VERY VERY SHARP LOOKING SAILOR'S 2:49 THE LEFT ARM AROUND THE OTHER SAILORS WAIST ,GOOD BUDDIES I GUESS?

Great video 👍

Women are free to show affection or even call each other 'girlfriend,' while men are shamed for doing the same thing. So much for 'equal rights..'

As a Gen X'er, I am just old enough to remember going to the athletic club with my late father & thinking nothing of showering or entering the sauna naked with him & other men. I agree with others here who have partly attributed this decline in male spaces to the rise of feminism & women's reactions to the phenomenon in general. Interesting in that they have always insisted on our acceptance of THEIR private spaces--girls' nights out, manicure parties, neighborhood gossip fests over lattes, etc. Just one of many double standards which the female gender has inflicted on our society.

As if homosexuality didn't exist back then! My uncle who was in Marines back in 50's said that there were more Gays in the Military than straights! Its just that it was more circumspect than it is today.

Hey Spelunk buddy, how're ya doin', sailor. Interrestingly enough, I just received an offer from Amazon for a pair of sparkling whites ... the only difference ? Stretch ans super tight ! A different era ...🕺😇

Is there a 12 step program to become unwokeism?

How can wo,eism affect men, or anyone else, when tnis "woke" is made up by Repu licans to attack anything they dont like. How can wokeism be a corporation, a person, a grocery store and now men, all at the same time? Now is it whats being alled wo,e wasnt woke a out 2-3 yezrs🎉ago? Is there a test given that shows a corporation or store, woke? What the hell is woke? Nobody, especially those who are saying this and that are woke, dont define the word, and who made the decision and why the decision was made such person, place or thing is woke? It seems everything deemed woke is a liberal, democratic or left leaning? Nevera republican, or right leaning? How and why is that? AGAIN, what is wokeism?

RIP George Hollingsworth, there's nothing else needed for this archive. Yours DougT

Don't forget the ubiquitousness of smart phones that can take a pic of you nude and send it around the world! That's one reason why teen boys hate p.e. showers.

I was looking for my Dad, he was in the 873rd, but thought I might see him in this, didn't, but great to watch.

Good lord, Gary's navy buddies were dreamy. Yowza!

One of those first pics, with sailors on a balcony, is not the Royal Hawaiian, but the YMCA with is now an art museum.

Such beaut blokes

One of your best ever. As a merchant mariner myself, I found myself engulfed in a lot of familiar settings and images - without, thankfully, the specter of war looming over my head. Bravo!

I never understand what is the problem with Americans. Nudity is natural. That's how we are all born. Get used to it. There is something to say about most bodies not being super aesthetic, yes, and clothing adds something appreciative to the style of men and women which happen not to be Greek athletes, but otherwise there should not be any societal norms for it. People totally lost their connection to what is natural.

USS Southerland (DD 743) was the first ship I was assigned to after Surface Warfare School. She saw service in the final months of World War II in the Pacific thester and was a Naval Reserve ship by the time I reported. It was a mere 5 months after I was assigned as 1st Lieutenant that she was decommissioned.

Congratulations , and thanks for these interreseting pix to sailor pink !💪✌

There goes the fallacy of systemic racism 🎉at 0:33 and 6:02. G-D NEVER cared what color a man is. He judges all by our beating heart's content 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Silly race pushers.

🇫🇴🇬🇧 Heyas Andy, 5⭐ you've earned a few 🍻 assembling this archive. Guys just being guys away from home with a job to do. For the biggest part how trim, lean and healthy they looked. I have touched on that in many posts with you. More so the shirtless images 😎 A vital service too as a hospital ship and some of the casualties they saw, well it dont bear thinking about. Great to see the ship pulling into SF under the Golden Bridge. Well i never even sailor Santa and Christmas made an appearance. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

For some reason, I found the pic at 2:50 to be a little sad. It was his birthday, and instead of spending it with his family, he was out at sea and probably not sure if he'd make it to the next birthday during the war. You can tell from the expression on his face that it's a bittersweet feeling.

Have a proud D-Day, all!

Really tops ! Thanks fo the video

Of women had to get out and fight wars they would shut up

I prefer the originals, the AI ones look too fake.

Woman routinely body shame men today as well. Just show them a pic of a man in a speedo at the beach and it's "eww, gross, nasty, that should be illegal". Meanwhile, women can wear a g-sting and bikinis on even "plus size" bodies and no one is allowed to say a thing about it. Suddenly it's body shaming woman. Double standards.

Lot of BS here.

Someone should start up, revive men only gyms.

Awesome photo collection of Arthur's. 😊

Wonder where they got that name, Kaskaskia. Was it a person, a place? Uncle Bob's stage name at the Copacabana?

Youg men have lost their freedom because of their morhers' interference. They don't realize what they are missing and have lost. Feel sorry for them.

I did NOT change it ☝️🏳️‍🌈 Its still my way of life 💖

I love the pic of "the boys" at 0:30 - very wholesome-looking bunch!

Andy-- This video was once agsin a chance for me to learn about a subject I knew nothing about. Let no one think their lives were easy: The part about the two ships being hooked together for refueling while both ships were moving was to me downright scary.

Nice to see some recognition for the fleet auxiliaries; my late father spent 1939-1945 about a single, small, WWI-vintage fleet oiler, USS Sepulga, AO-20, sailing from boredom to tedium and back again, punctuated by brief periods of terror, so the 'fighting ships' could do what they did. A fleet without oil, stores, and ammunition is called a target.

🇫🇴🇬🇧 Aloha Andy, your back on your usual islands again. Looks like Arthur(?) numbered his pictures and there probably was a description/names etc on the back 👍 to remind him. As a tanker ship the Kaskaskia would have been a very busy vessel too and I guess it was armed too as the fuel it carried was vital. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

US Navy 1962-1984. As an enlisted sailor in my dress blues, I had the liberty cuffs, zipper up the side on my jumper, and had my 13-button pants legs pegged....sharp uniform. When making CPO, I thought the dress khakis were the sharpest-looking uniform. CWO4 USN Ret.

WOMEN are why today's' men are ashamed of their bodies.

Right on buddy!

I believe your arguments have some fallacies. I'm arguing with your ideas and not you as a person so please hear me out. circular reasoning & strawman - "wokeism marginalizes men by positioning them as the primary oppressor" your conclusion is already established in the premise without providing any evidence to support your argument. Social justice movements do have some misandrists but they do not represent the idea; the consensus among feminist movements is rather that a patriarchy negatively impacts men as they do not have the social support to be vulnerable. appeal to tradition & hasty generalization - you make the assumption that traditional gender roles positively impact men (some kinda do as its nice for men to be able to choose a social framework to navigate the world with) but masculinity should be seen in a more positive light with men being able to open up about their problems. You claim that social justice has divided masculinity into several different gender identities but masculinity is interpreted differently between people and forcing men into the traditional binary isn't the best choice for every one which actually ties into your belief that social justice movements ignore individual experiences. Most of the social justice movement sees the opportunity for positive masculinity. I feel like the culture war has divided us to only see the most extreme parts of the political spectrum. They want conservatives to believe that every left winger is a sjw gender abolitionist anarchist and every progressive to see right wingers as "white trash" homophobic racists which isn't true for either side. They want us to fight each other with social issues while other problems get ignored.

Is the wokeism in the room with you now?

Perfect analysis. There is no justification for blatant discrimination. Thank you.

Pity that this edifying commentary (on the sadly neglected subject of MALE COMMUNAL IDENTITY & SEXUAL EXPRESSIONS) cut out Two-thirds of the way through the video. Any hope of remedying this?

I think this is completely dumb. Wokism is a product of the grifter and outrage economy targeting people who don’t care to read and discover the history and facts of people they believe are completely different from them. The fear mongering actually works to facilitate that status quo (alienation) and line the pockets of the those who whip into existence a new bogeyman. Through a deep dive at the edges of diverse perspectives and philosophy - men might find that the answer to the liberation they seek and community they long for is being marketed as the devil and something evil as in the tradition church institutions of yester year. Think freelly and read for yourself. Go on an intellectual adventure and try to see a bit of yourself in the “other”.- ask yourself why being aware of social ills and the people who defend the status quo for the few (also known as being woke) is a bad thing or how could a woke person be that way from reasonable and just stand point. Most of all fight for your emotional needs in a prosocial way while seeing yourself in the other, put love over monetary profit, and you too might find that you are woke.