Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[Levina de Ruijter]

Charlton Heston coming down the gangway during the filming of the move Midway 1975

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Cool.

 

[JohnPD]

Charlton Heston coming down the gangway during the filming of the move Midway 1975

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Good old Chuck. Did you meet him?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Good old Chuck. Did you meet him?

Sure did and talked to him a little bit and shook his hand. One of the Waves in the Photo Lab said I should never wash that hand again LOL

I also met Hal Holbrook, Henry Fonda, Glen Ford, and saw Kate Jackson.

Here is a short I put together from some Super 8 film I shot

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[greatgrandma]

USS Intrepid Air and Sea Museum NYC

had to include the A-12 on deck. part of Project Oxcart. it was the CIA version of the later SR-71 with only a single crew member (SR-71 of Senior Crown) had a Pilot and a Reconnaissance Officer who operated the cameras and other sensors

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Bob was on the Intrepid twice - Once when he was stationed in Norfolk in the early 60s (he was also on Essex at that time) attached to an antisubmarine squadron , and the second time was late 1969 when he was in the ship's company - flew out to the Philippines and came back around South America, went into the yard in Philadelphia, and then down to Pensacola to replace the Lexington and up to Boston into the yard again, and then attached to an antisubmarine squadron on the Intrepid at Quonset Point until late 1973.

Have not been on her since she was made a museum, but I was on shore when she came into NYC for Armed Forces Day in 1970. As she came around the corner into the cruise ship dock, the carrier deck took out the corner of the building on the dock and I saw the debris falling into the water.

 

[GSPEP]

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)