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Few more shots.
I have some new shots to put up.
It's a little funny to think a pair of Officers, who are now in their 70s look young.
More young men who are now in their 70s!
I found this great site that has all kinds of info on US Navy ships and has the Cruise book for the America World Cruise, a long with others for ships dating back to pre-WWII in some cases.
https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv66-68/000.htm
Sadly, my dad must have somehow missed making it into the VF-33 personnel roster in the book. It's ok Lt Wiest above didn't make the cruise book either. I've spent hours reading through various cruise books, in particular the WWII carrier and battleship ones.
I find this image really fascinating, I've always wondered how they kept track of the birds, and now I know. I bet its all in a computer now.
Back to aircraft. A nice VA-85 Intruder. I'm curious what the weird looking spike looking things on the Island are. Some kind of sensor or ECM device maybe?
I think this one is from the world cruise, but you can't see any markings that tell us what ship for sure. It's also weird, some slides are dated, others not. Maybe they were in batches at one point but nearly 50 years bouncing around in boxes has mixed them all up.
This one is from the world cruise.
A pair of shots of a VA-64 A-4 about to be started, I think that's what the red hose is for. One thing I noticed, the planes are much cleaner in all the slides than I thought they would be.
These are from east coast workups in 69.
And old Vigilante about to get a cat shot. I read somewhere these planes were all G limited and really old by this point. Wish I could remember the book.
A nice shot of a Phantom cat shot.
These images all seem like they got taken on the same day, maybe within minutes of each other. Maybe from up on the Island?
Skywarrior going for a flight.
The Samuel N. Moore, DD-747 a Sumner class destroyer commissioned June of 44, and only had about a year of service with the US Navy left. I'm pretty sure this is from an UNREP on the world cruise, because DD-747 was struck on 24 October of 69 and given to the Taiwan Navy on 10 December 69. She served with them until 1995.
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My Dad was in the Navy from 1965 to 1969. He's been dead since 2000, so there is no asking him for info on this stuff, my mom is around but won't knot much about the Navy details so I am putting this together from memory and whats in the photos. The slides were not in great shape, and the first set of scans were rough, and then the scanner broke. So, since Amazon didn't have the same model anymore, I spent a little more money and got a much nice scanner, with a better "technology" for film scanning, and it fixes the flaws when it scans them. The results are remarkable. As far as I know these images were taken with a Minolta 35mm Camera, I guess an SLR, since he had a bunch of lenses for it. I learned photography with it, and have a few pictures of my GTO I took with his Camera. This was the type of camera you focuses, and set the light settings, and had to hand wind. Considering how much harder a camera was to work back then, I think my old man was a reasonably talented photographer.
As far as I can remember he went to boot camp in San Diego, then he went to schools for Ejection Seat Maintenance and Air Condition systems on the F4J Phantom. He got assigned to VF-33, part of CAG-6, with VF-102, VA-82, VA-86, VA-85, RVAH-13, VAW-122, VAW-13 Det. 66, and VAH-10 Det. 66. CAG-6 was assigned to the USS America, who was about three years old and about to go on a world cruise, that would include the Ships only Vietnam deployment in 1968. When the ship got back, it was stationed on the east coast, and VF-33 went to CAG-7, and ended up on the Independence. My dad was with them for at least one work up cruise, since there are a set of photos from that ship. By mid 69 he was back in San Diego, working with VF-121, the west coast RAG, waiting to get out . I do not have any photos yet from San Diego, at least Navy stuff.
Here is a shot of the CVA-66 USS America, she displaced 61,174 tons empty, 83,500 full load. She was the second Kitty Hawk Class Carrier, she would spend the majority of her Career in the Med. (if the logo for the Sherman Tank Site seems like its in odd places, its usually covering a flaw the scanner could not fix)
Here's a VF-33 Phantom.
A VF-102 Phantom, an F-4J the same as VF-33.
Here are some pretty cool shots from an underway replenishment. It could be anywhere on the World cruise in 68.
I think this is also from an Unrep, maybe the same one. This photo is one of my favorite, you get an A-7 and Sea Night for the the price of one!
Old shot with bad scanner as a place holder for a duplicate.
This shot is of the flight deck, by the cats on the angle deck looking forward. Not the kill mark on the intake of the F-4J, 212 sitting there, pretty cool.
These last three shots are all from the USS Independence, in early 69, I assume off the East Coast on work ups for their upcoming Med Cruise.
This is my old Man, Rick T, I'm pretty sure that's a Martin Baker Ejection seat right next to him. Several VF-33 Phantoms got shot down, and the seats always worked, so he had that going for him. This image was scanned on the original scanner, note how cruddy it looks, when get to this slide again, I'll post the improved version. Compare the below image to the one above too.
I'll posts more as I water mark them and host them.
There was a crossing of the line ceremony, that my Dad took a ton of pics on, its pretty interesting.
It was really nice to find these, I had thought hey got lost in a move.
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Yeah, they are unreal! How do you even have hands that steady.
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Wow, those are amazing, at first I thought they were much bigger scale.
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It is interesting that during WWII, the early Shermans had very M60/M48 like ammo storage.
They found this is why the Sherman was prone to fires, and the second gen models have most of the ammo in armored bins under the turret, with a 6 or 8 round armored ready rack.
The M26/46, they were back to large un-armored ready racks, but the rest was still in the floor.
By the M48/60, it seems like they forgot the lessons of WWII?
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They clearly just stopped a dangerous rapist!
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On 9/29/2019 at 1:41 PM, Donward said:
BAAAEEEYYYEEERRR!!! PINOOOT NOOOIR!!!
Even our bears are snobs... It probably votes progressive too.
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He's doing it wrong. Clearly never played with fire as a child. Just spray the Soy flag down with some WD-40, or any number of spray solvents and it will light right up!
Back in the day, before they redesigned the can, WD-40 would blow up with a 20 foot across mushroom cloud, if you tossed it in a camp fire. Being within 50 yards of the fire was not a good idea.
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I thought the front antenna mount look M4A4 as well, but you really gota see it from the side.
I wonder what gear it was in when it seemed to be bogging down a bit when it was turning?
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I think that beautiful Sherman started out life as an M4A4, look at the wheel spacing at .42.
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Awesome!
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37 minutes ago, Meplat said:
A warning "Delco" is not what it used to be.
And "Self fusing tape" is the berries, if a bit expensive.
It surely better than Autozone, Napa, or O'Reilly's?
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Be sure and replace the pilot bushing while your in there.
I always went with AC Delco or the Ford Brand rebuilds or new parts cause I had some many of the cheaper parts house rebuilds fail right out of the box.
I was wondering about the wiring harness, they are not that many years apart, so I bet you don't have to cut much.
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Did it come with its computer, and will all your gauges and shit work? I see you got ACDelco parts, and cheaper stuff, smart.
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Nice!
How many miles does it have on it?
The new parts look so out of placed. Its funny to think that thing is pushing 20 years.
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6 hours ago, Meplat said:
Huh, did not know that.
Neat!
Much as I like the OH-6, the '58 actually went somewhere.
I was going to say, but was it on Magnum PI, but it was, as the bad guys chopper most of the time.
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There is an old book from Crysler put out on their factory called 'the tanks are coming'.
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2 hours ago, Meplat said:
People do not realize how absurdly forgiving and tolerant the Bell "Rangers" are. You have to work to make one crash.
I heard the OH-6 was much more popular with Scout crews in Vietnam, was this because, the Rangers were hard to maneuver?
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4 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:
Spicy, but who would can't see the Democrats pulling this after what they did to Bret Kavanaugh.
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Luckily, they are just congressmen, not, Senators, who have much more power.
They have immense power to out the Democrat party on their support of terror, and antisemitism.
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I found my Dads old Navy Slides
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Yeah, I may be wrong, I'll have to dig around and see if I can find the book. With such a small production run, I can see them wearing out fast.