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  2. United States Asiatic Fleet - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s and 1930s, the Asiatic Fleet was based from China, and the image of the "China Sailor" developed, as many U.S. Navy members remained at postings in China for 10–12 years, then retired and continued to live there. The classic film The Sand Pebbles is a dramatization on the life of the China Sailors.

  3. Yangtze Patrol - Wikipedia

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    1850s–1890s, U.S. Navy sailor, with personal sidearms and a black, fatigue uniform. This was standard issue for China sailors of the early Yangtze Patrol and nicknamed "tars" U.S. Navy sailors, on board an 1864 river gunboat USS Ashuelot, a steam-powered, U.S. Navy river gunboat, on the Yangtze Patrol, in service, for one year, in 1874, to protect American interests, in Shanghai, China, and ...

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject U.S. Roads/Texas/1920s numbers

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    State Highway 3, Southern National Highway, from a point in Orange on the Sabine river through Orange, Beaumont, Houston and San Antonio to Del Rio (the original highway entered Texas at the foot of Green Avenue in Orange after crossing the Sabine River on the Orange Memorial Bridge which was demolished in the 1950s with the advent of "Super 90 ...

  5. Pershing Map - Wikipedia

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    The Pershing Map was an early blueprint for a national highway system in the United States, with many of the proposed roads later forming a substantial portion of the Interstate Highway System. [1] It's the first official United States road map, and many of the proposed roadways were later incorporated into the current highway system.

  6. Wikipedia : WikiProject U.S. Roads/Texas/All-time list

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    Texas City-La Marque; redesignated because it was an FM route SH 349: 1943 → FM 9 now Rankin-Midland; extended to near Lamesa over FM 306 and FM 177 in 1947; extended to Sheffield in 1956 (this extension was signed over FM 1217); rerouted around Midland in 2003; extended to US 87 in 2014 SH 350: 1943 now Big Spring-Snyder SH 351

  7. PHOTOS: Keller, Texas (1920s-1950s). Check out these shots ...

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    Keller is home to nearly 50,000 people today, but it used to be a much quieter farming community back in the day. Here are some shots of Keller’s people and places from the 1920s to the 1950s ...

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  9. Texas Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. [1] It descended from the Texian Navy , which was established in November 1835 to fight for independence from Centralist Republic of Mexico in the Texas ...