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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 Dixie Station was established in the South China Sea off the Mekong Delta May 15, 1965 to August 3, 1966 as a single-carrier counterpart to the multi-carrier Yankee Station, which was located further north near the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin and was responsible for strikes on North Vietnamese targets.
