|
||||||||
Welcome aboard!
Arnold J. Isbell (DD-869) was laid down on 14 March 1945 at Staten Island N.Y., by the Bethlehem Steel Co. and launched on 6 August 1945, the day the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
The Isbell spent almost her entire life in the Pacific fleet. She missed action in World War II but served in Korea and Vietnam. After her transfer to the Greek Navy in the early 1970s she continued to serve into the 1990s.
This site is dedicated to all former Isbell officers, crew, and other interested destroyer and navy buffs. It's important to keep alive the memory of these old tin cans and the good and bad times we all had while aboard.
"Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile... can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, 'I served in the United States Navy.'"
President John F. Kennedy
August 1, 1963
United States Naval Academy
Reunion information
2008 Reunion - Sept 10-13, 2008 - Dedham/Boston,
Mass.
2007 "in between" reunion report from Barry Dahlberg.
2006 reunion report and photos from Barry Dahlberg and Hank Watson.
2005 reunion report and photos from Barry Dahlberg and Hank Watson.
2004 Isbell reunion photos from Ted Guess, Hank Watson and Chuck Ehaney.
2004 crew photo (226kb image)
Submit items for this site. This is the best website for the best Tin Can in the Navy. This is because of the great contributions from Isbell crewmen. If you have any Isbell-related photos, electronic images, stories or other items you would like posted on this site, please contact me (I can scan photos and return them if you provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Let me know and I will send you the mailing address.) Many of the items on this site were contributed by former crewmen. To them I am deeply grateful.
This website is run at my own time and expense. If you would like to make a small donation to defray costs, please do so here. Thanks!
!!! NOTICE !!! Please update your email address! Check the crew list and take a look at your email address; if it's wrong, send me a note at "xdd869 at comcast.net" so I can correct it. Please put "Isbell" somewhere in the subject line; I get so much spam it can be easy to overlook something important. Thanks!
- Dan Davis, ussarnoldjisbell.com owner/administrator
Photo: Roger Niswonger
Book Recommendation:
An Emotional Gauntlet
~ Stuart J. Wright
My father Philip L. Davis was ground crew with the 453rd BG. He and
I are both mentioned in the acknowldgement page for contributions to
this book.
Also: Destroyer
Skipper: A Memoir of Command at Sea
Author Don Sheppard was the Isbell's
XO from 1970-71.