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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.
Description Yankee Station was a point in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam used by the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes in the Vietnam War. While its official designation was "Point Yankee," it was universally referred to as Yankee Station. Carriers conducting air operations at Yankee Station were said to be "on the line" and statistical summaries were based on days on the line. The name derived from it being the geographic reference point "Y", pronounced "Yankee" in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In turn the term Point Yankee derived from the launch point for "Yankee Team" aerial reconnaissance missions over Laos conducted in 1964. It was located about 190 km due east of Dong Hoi, at 17° 30' N and 108° 30' E.
During the two periods of sustained air operations against North Vietnam (March 2, 1965-October 31, 1968 and March 30, 1972-December 29, 1972) there were normally three carriers on the line, each conducting air operations for twelve hours, then off for twelve hours. One of the carriers would operate from noon to midnight, another from midnight to noon, and one during daylight hours, which gave 24-hour coverage plus additional effort during daylight hours, when sorties were most effective. However at the end of May, 1972, six carriers were for a short period of time on the line at Yankee Station conducting Linebacker strikes.
The first aircraft carrier at Yankee Station was USS Kitty Hawk, which was ordered there in April 1964 for the Yankee Team missions. Kitty Hawk was joined by Ticonderoga in May and Constellation in June, two months prior to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Ticonderoga and Constellation launched the first bombing missions from Yankee Station on August 5, 1964. Constellation was also the last carrier conducting operations at Yankee Station on August 15, 1973. USS Forrestal suffered a major accident while at Yankee Station when a series of fires and explosions on her deck killed 134 men and injured another 161.
A corresponding Dixie Station in the South China Sea off the Mekong Delta was a single carrier point for conducting strikes within South Vietnam from May 15, 1965 to August 3, 1966.
