Kearsarge (CVA 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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t A f iv. tts' J it get Top row Cleft to rightji Kendall, Cientuegos, Bixby, Minahan, Norris, French, Markstrom, l it t i htj: Derrick, Lewis, Little, Gauthier, Everist, Nigretto, Prince, Sand. Middle row Ce o rg Merrill, Blue, Fitzpatrick, Rawlings. Bottom row Cleft to rightj: Porter, Gay, Gordon, Holloway, Brown, Gordon, Sturtevant. Probably the most impressive phase Gl uir operations is the circus of Ufllvlly On my flight deck as my Mn move my planes about during lUUl'tChES and recoveries. The whole Operation goes smoothly and with Seemingly little ef'Tort, but to the men Dfv-1 it means good, old-fashioned mUflUGl labor. Fighting 45-knot winds, 'hey heave and pull to iockey balky Planes onto the catapults, trot along- title the aircraft as they are towed tractors, and then throw the chocks around the wheels. recoveries, the spotlight shifts The yellow-ierseyed plane directors W0 control each plane's actions Whenever it is on deck. Forced by llle fantastic noise level to use only Visual signals to give instructions to llle Pilot, they create a symphony of 'notion as their hands tell the pilot euflt thing he must do. My flight deck is G stage where actors display llt s e letlrnwork that makes flight opera- lions , G reality. P Q.. if,

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'-nip-a-9. CDR H. V. LADLEY Front row Cleft to rightj: CWO M.N. Frey, l.t E. Phillips, Cdr R.W. Kimbrel, Cdr H.V. Ladley, Lt D.G. Sutherland, Lt CH. McMakin. Back rowflelt to rightj: Lt W. Eckhofi, Lt R.K. Billings, WO H.L. Pace, WO W.L. Kurtz. lO4 A floating airfield they call me. A floating airfield, yes, but even more than that: l am an airfield that travels nearly forty miles an hour, ranging many thousands of miles from home. l must be able to sustain myself and my aircraft without outside assistance. The men of the Air Department do the work most closely associated with the support of my embarked squadrons and detachments. They supply the materiel and the facilities that keep my planes flying-the fuel, the spare parts, the work shops, the men who direct and push the planes about my deck, the men who fire them off the catapults and the men who halt them with arresting wires when they return.

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I Q eil I -have 4,,i , T V . X 1 ' g v I 1 in L . b . ' l 1 Y if' b g:...,. , ill .Lift ' I Top row Qlett to rightj: Powers, Hughes, McKinney, Scovill, Sampsel, Hughes, Wildermuth Ross, Hewson. Middle row: Stover, Martin, Williams, Looney, Lt D.G. Sutl'1erlcnd,Jimenez, Hurd, Nicholson, Trapp. Bottom row: Spires, Hurley, Klienstiver, Potts. Stalllcomp, Soliz, McComy. Top row Qlett to rightl: Plummer, lugert, Perkins, Tidlund, Petty, Lanning, Kirby, Oberst Moore, O'brien. Middle row: Watson, Brown, Creekmore, Morolcs, WO W. L. Kurtz Wyrick, Mikuliza, Norris, Jackson. 'fm' 'Eff l ill' ,f l -an l l ,lv-uiiii - M