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Last Address 128 Oaklawn Oswego,IL. 60543
Date of Passing Jan 11, 2009
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Diagnosed last July 2007 with terminal Lung and Bone Cancer. Presently undergoing Chemo Treatments (second) round.
Was doing different jobs since leaving the Navy, mostly welding and some trucking. Now am forced into medical retirement so I am sitting at home just waiting.
Luck To all and YES Smoking is VERY BAD for you.
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Served at NAS Alameda from Boot Camp in '61 - '62, then worked in the Aircraft Maint. Dept. until I passed my E-3 test. Then went to the Transient flight line and became a plane capt on a T-33.
In '64 was transfered to Whidbey Island, WA to VAH-123 for training on A-3-Ds. Sent to VAH-6 as a plane captain and line personel, then onto the '64 - '65 Cruise on the Forrestal.
Came home from cruise and '-6 was changing over to Vigis so they sent me to VAH-4 Det C. Time for the Kitty Hawk cruise came up and as I was so close to my discharge MacNamara and Nixon said "Boy Why Don't You Stay AN EXTRA THREE MONTHS?" Well that gave the Navy just enough time to let me go on that Cruise to SE Asia... Did my time and came home in March of '66 for my Out.
CLASS - FORRESTAL
Displacement 56,000 Tons, Dimensions, 1039' (oa) x 129' 1" x 37' (Max)
Armament 8 x 5"/54, 100 Aircraft.
Armor, Unknown.
Machinery, 260,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 3800 - 4280.
Named after
CVA-59 was named after James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949). He became the first Under Secretary of the Navy in August 1940, charged with building the world's largest Fleet. His brilliant work in procurement and production led to his appointment as the 48th Secretary of the Navy in May 1944. Forrestal carried out this new assignment with such distinction that he was the natural choice as the first Secretary of Defense, a position to which he was appointed in September 1947, and in which he continued outstanding service to the Nation, until he resigned in March 1949. He had served in the US Navy as a naval aviator during World War I.
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