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| OOPS..............................................by Joe Dunegan | Carrier Antisubmarine Stories..................................... | ||
| Cross Country Weekend...................by Joe Dunegan | U2 AT ATSUGI........................................................ | ||
| I Can Make It Work.........................by Joe Dunegan | Fire Warning Light...............................by J. P. Enright | ||
| Fire Storm in Malibu Canyon.............by Joe Dunegan | Oil Leak on a SPAD...................by Dave Kassebaum | ||
| Riding out a Typhoon........................by Joe Dunegan | Emergency Landing.................by Bobby G. Lambert | ||
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OOPS.....
Carrier Quals had been going on for several weeks after a new group of Pilots had arrived onboard. This particular day,
CDR. Yarnell had drawn the duty of getting this one particular “Nugget” qualified to make day traps. Night trap qualification would come later.
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"CARRIER ANTISUBMARINE STORIES"A collection of Stories, anecdotes and other yarns about the life of those individuals who's everyday life was flying Antisubmarine missions from the decks of carriers all over the world. Many spent a life time of this adventureous way of life, many did not. But they all shared experiences that will live in their memories forever.......more Donald R. Elliot |
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CROSS COUNTRY WEEKEND
It was around mid December, 1956. We had just retuned to San Diego from cruising Hawaiian waters during the Suez Crisis. It was getting close to Christmas so a couple of the younger Pilots decided to take a cross country flight to Dallas over a weekend. Since I hadn’t been home for a while, I signed up to go, too. All was fine when we left North Island early Friday afternoon. ....more |
U2 AT ATSUGI
The 1957 WESTPAC cruise of VS-37 was one of many odd occurrences. One such occurrence was during one of our two week operational stays at the Navy side of NAF Atsugi. The other side was occupied by the Marines ....more |
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I Can Make It Work
This story began on a clear sunny day with Flight Ops running near peak. The Deck hands were very busy and over worked. Most everybody had had very little sleep for the past four days. The aircraft, S2Fs, had been scheduled for maximum up time. A new sortie was being staged and with Ops running so tight, the use of the battery or mobile APUs was discouraged. 24 Volt power was available along the deck edge and orders were given to use it. ....more |
FIRE WARNING LIGHT
Charlie Farrell and I had a pretty hairy sea story happen to us when on a night flight in bad weather when we were bingoed to Okinawa and flew through rough weather all the way. ....more |
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Fire Storm in Malibu Canyon
It was the early part of September, 1957. I had just returned from a WESTPAC cruise aboard the USS Philippine Sea, CVS-47. VS-37 had been transferred to Los Alamitos and things were beginning to settle in to some semblance of a normal routine. It was very dry that year and fires were breaking out everywhere ....more |
OIL LEAK ON A SPAD
I wasn’t qualified to do anything with a search light except to illuminate something in the water. I did confuse an ‘Alpha Delta’ pilot one pitch black night over the Tonkin Gulf. We were paired up as a Hunter/Killer Team, I guess you’d call it. Or was it “Hunter / Scrapper”. With the AD-4Q (or was it some other mod?) at altitude, and the Stoof low (at about 500 feet). ....more |
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Riding out a Typhoon
I'm told by many of my Ship Mates that the winters in the Sea of Japan are brutal. I was never in the Sea of Japan during the winter months but I can tell you what it was like during Typhoon season. ....more |
Emergency Landing
The training hop started out about as routine as you can get, I was sitting in the right hand crew seat and had been looking for anything unusual for almost four hours but nothing! ....more |
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