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Potomac’s Filipino Mess Crew
The Spanish-American conflict was a “splendid little war[1]” that marked America’s entry as an imperial power into world affairs. Coincidentally that same splendid little war was the origin of the USS Potomac’s all-Filipino mess crew and...
Short Term Skipper President Harry S. Truman
Vice President Harry Truman liked to spend afternoons with a bourbon and branch at House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s “Board of Education” hideaway. When he arrived on April 12, 1945, Rayburn told Truman to call Steve Early in the White House...
Historic USS Potomac Launches a Maritime Workforce Development Project with West Oakland Job Resource Center, thanks to $430,000 in Grant Funding
New collaboration marks increased economicefforts to support the local maritime industry, in the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt OAKLAND, August 31, 2024 - With the help of a $430,000 combined grant from the state of California, the USS Potomac Association, which owns...