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Home Town Hartfield, CT
Last Address Pace, FL
Date of Passing Jan 25, 2010
Location of Interment Serenity Gardens - Milton, Florida
Anthony John Corrado, Jr., age 68, passed away on Monday, January 25, 2010. He was a native of Hartford, Connecticut and resided in NWF since 1972.
Continuing his passion for all things Navy, he worked as a Plane Captain with LL3 at NAS Whiting Field, where he was affectionately known as "The Candy Man."
He was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. Known to his grandchildren and great-grandchild as "PaPa," Tony enjoyed every moment with them, from pretending to be a monster, doing magic tricks, and giving them rides on a four-wheeler.
Never one to turn down talk about Navy life, he looked forward to his breakfast with his buddies the first Tuesday of every month.
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Tony was a retired U.S. Navy Sr. Chief Petty Officer with 24 years of service. Among many other deployments, he served as a helicopter crew chief during the Vietnam War and a field team technical advisor in Iran, ultimately earning his Combat Aircrew Wings.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Bobby Corrado; his parents, Tony and Dot Corrado; and a daughter, Tonya Leann Corrado.
Tony is survived by his wife of 40 years, Pete Corrado of Pace; two sons, Rusty (Nancy) Johnston of Milton and Mike (Diane) Corrado of Middleburg, FL; two daughters, Stacy (Billy) Carter of Navarre and Tara (Ray) Albarado of Middletown, RI; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one sister, Chickie (Ed) Gould of Clearwater, FL; five nephews; and many, many special friends.
Published in Pensacola News Journal on January 27, 2010
Vietnam War/Counteroffensive Phase IV Campaign (68)
From Month/Year
April / 1968
To Month/Year
June / 1968
Description This Campaign period was from 2 April to 30 June 1968. The Naval air and gun fire support to operations such as Operation Silver Mace gave ground units the needed firepower while AirForce units were moved to air operations over Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam. From 7 to 18 April, ground, air, and naval units from each of the American services, the Vietnamese Navy, and the Vietnamese Marine Corps conducted Silver Mace II, a strike operation in the Nam Can Forest on Ca Mau Peninsula. The enemy avoided heavy contact with the allied force, but his logistical system was disrupted.
Enemy air defenses caused aviators more concern for by 1968 the Communists had developed a defensive system that was well-armed, coordinated, and supported. On the ground throughout North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and Laos, the enemy trained skyward thousands of small arms, automatic weapons, and antiaircraft artillery. North Vietnam alone contained 8,000 weapons of many calibers, concentrated around key targets. Beginning in early 1965, surface-to-air missiles (SAM) were added to this defensive arsenal, and by early 1968 over 300 SAM sites dotted the North Vietnamese countryside. The entire defensive system was tied together with a sophisticated network of communications, air alert stations, and early warning, ground control-interceptor, and fire control radars. New and replacement weapons and ammunition were amply supplied by sympathetic Communist countries. The loss in Southeast Asia of 421 fixed-wing aircraft from 1965 to 1968 attested to the strength of these defenses. The aviators killed, missing, or made prisoner totaled 450. The operating environment was especially dangerous in North Vietnam, where 382 Navy planes were shot down, 58 of them by SAMs.
Although only accounting for eight of the Navy's aircraft during this three-year period, the North Vietnamese air units posed a constant threat to U.S. operations, thus requiring a diversion of vital resources for protection. The enemy air force varied from 25 to 100 MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19, and MiG-21 jet fighters. The country's jet-capable airfields included Gia Lam, Phuc Yen, Cat Bi, Kep, Kien An, Yen Bai, Son Tay, Bai Thuong, Hoa Lac, and Vinh. The U.S. Navy engaged in its first air-to-air encounter of the war on 3 April 1965, when several MiG-15s unsuccessfully attacked a flight of F-8 Crusaders near Thanh Hoa. On 17 June, two Midway F-4 Phantoms registered the first kills in the long conflict when they downed two MiG-17s south of Hanoi.
