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Photo # NH 105696:  Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa February 1964.

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Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN (Retired), (1911-1996) -- Non-portrait Views taken from 1946 through 1976


This page features selected views concerning John D. Bulkeley, taken between 1946 and 1976.

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  • Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN (Retired), 1911-1996.


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    Photo #: NH 105695

    Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN, Commander of the Naval Base, gets a trickle of water from a water pressure gauges hooked to the pipe that once carried water from the Yateras, Cuba water plant. At the time of this photograph, it registered less than one pound of pressure.
    Photographed circa February 1964. The Cuban Government stopped supplying water on 6 February and the water pipe was cut on RAdm. Bulkeley's orders on 17 February.
    In the background, the Naval Base's North East Gate can be seen.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105693

    Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN (kneeling, at left), Commander of the Naval Base, watches as a 38-inch section of 14-inch water pipe is removed after having been cut, 17 February 1964. He had ordered the pipe to be cut and sealed, eliminating the Naval Base's supply of water from Cuban sources, after Fidel Castro had accused the United States of "stealing" water.
    Photographed by Chief Journalist D. Koze.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 69KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105694

    Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    Sign erected on 18 February 1964 proclaims the base's liberation from the Cuban Government water supply system, severed on 17 February after Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley ordered the pipes to the cut and sealed. This was done in retaliation after Fidel Castro accused the Guantanamo Base of "stealing" water from the Yateras Water Plant. The Cuban Government stopped supplying water to the base on 6 February, and water was then sent in by ship from the United States until completion of a desalinization plant in July 1966.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 93KB; 580 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105696

    Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN, Commander of the Naval Base, (right), and Captain Zabisco C.Trzyna, USN, Commanding Officer of the Base's Public Works Center, break ground at the start of the base's water desalinization plant, 1 April 1964.
    Photographed by E.P. Hostetler.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 119KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105698

    Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    Ground breaking ceremony for the start of the new water desalinization plant, 1 April 1964. Personnel are, from left to right:
    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN, Base Commander;
    Mr. R. Hendrickson from Burns and Roe Western Hemisphere Corporation; and
    Mr. J. Hastings Field, Project Manager for Westinghouse Electric International Corporation.
    Taken by Photographer's Mate Second Class E.P. Hostetler.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105687

    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN
    (left)
    and
    Rear Admiral Mark W. Crawford, USN (right)

    Cut cake at a party commemorating Rear Admiral Crawford's relief of Rear Admiral Bulkeley as Commander, Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on 25 June 1966.
    Photographed Photographer's Mate Second Class R. Blair.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 66KB; 580 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105675 (color)

    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN
    (President, Board of Inspection and Survey)

    Stands behind the Motor Torpedo Boat monument during the PT Boat Museum and Training Center dedication ceremony at Melville, Rhode Island, circa 1976.

    Donation of former Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf II.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 515 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105676 (color)

    Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf (center)
    and
    Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN (right)
    (President, Board of Inspection and Survey)

    Greet an unidentified gentleman during the PT Boat Museum and Training Center dedication ceremony at Melville, Rhode Island, circa 1976.

    Donation of former Secretary of the Navy, J. William Middendorf II.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     


    For additional images related to John D. Bulkeley, see:

  • Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, USN (Retired), 1911-1996.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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