{"id":84,"date":"2010-06-14T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:20:30","slug":"san-diego-tuna-boats-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Pork Chop Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1116\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1116\" data-attachment-id=\"1116\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=1116\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?fit=1831%2C1450\" data-orig-size=\"1831,1450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Captains and officers of San Diego&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Yippie&amp;#8221; boats.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?fit=1024%2C811\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1116\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?resize=300%2C238\" alt=\"Captains and officers of San Diego's &quot;Yippie&quot; boats.\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?resize=300%2C238 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?resize=1024%2C811 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/071.jpg?w=1831 1831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captains and officers of San Diego&#8217;s &#8220;Yippie&#8221; boats.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>We called ourselves the pork chop express. We carried meat and vegetables from Pearl Harbor all over the central Pacific. . . Sometimes we&#8217;d come back from an 1,800 jaunt, load up with pork chops and go right out again. We were so slow that almost anything could have caught up with us and sunk us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of San Diego&#8217;s tuna fleet in World War II: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pork-Chop-Express.pdf\">Pork Chop Express<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D84&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We called ourselves the pork chop express. We carried meat and vegetables from Pearl Harbor all over the central Pacific. . . Sometimes we&#8217;d come back from an 1,800 jaunt, load up with pork chops and go right out again. 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