Lexington (CVA 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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X., 1 J KJ LTJG G. W. PEARSON SIDEWINDER ! An OPNAV instruction defines a Guided Missile as an unmanned vehicle moving above the earth's surface, whose trajectory of flight-path is capable of being altered by a mechanism within the vehiclen. The western deserts of the United States harbor a rattlesnake known as the Sidewinder, from its peculiar looping H form of locomotion. This reptile is noted chiefly for its deadly venom and its willingness to strike without Warning. Combine the two, and you have SIDEWINDER, the Navy's newest and most deadly air-to-air missile. To the men of V5-M division falls the responsibility for the care and feeding of the Sidewinder. The Aviation Guided Missileman CGFD is a highly trained technician who knows and understands electronics, hydraulics, mechanics, ordnance, and theory of flight. These are the misslemen of the LEX, and their pet. 37

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4 36 TAKING ON aviation gas from tanker, V-4 men play it safe, don life-jackets. GGGD TO THE LAST DROP... G-MAN CHECKS volume of fuel in port and starboard storage tanks CREWMEN plug hose into planels underbelly V-4 Front Row: 0.0. Luckett, G.L. Paulsen, E.A. Garcia, C.M. Wynn, J. Wade, R.L. Hataway, J.E. Jacobs, C.M. Petty, Second Row: R.O. LaLonde,J.H. Jones, C.W. Neal, G.E. Kaiser, G.A. Smith, FJ. Roberts ' if 1 , K , ,A,,.,.,Q,m , .f ,fa . - ,, P K f -' L fr gf ' - V, yi 'F ' H fs-v I f 1 -- 4' 1 'jf - I f . ff t s f W..-

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5 'Z ill fvist? 'ft' Q53 W ll .td Q :F yi, 5 , K I , I Altria Q15 ,- I J V5-M Front Row: LA. Haug, W.W. Deming, R.M. Hanson, H.M. Everhart, J.P. Scherer, J.P. Fortier, G.W. Pearson, A.B. Isebrands, C. E. Cox, G. A. Butler, E. W. Meads, K. L. Adams, B.A. Baker. Second Row: L.F. Gassel, R.J. Casey, K. L. Sanders, J.C. O'Keefe, O.H. Hartmann, G.E. Montgomery, W.G. Schultz, L.D. Hall, D.A. Thompson, R.B. Lynch, T.L. McClellan, J.A. Veitl, R.L. Reisdorff, J.B. Johnson, H.L. Reed, H.T. Harding. in il DIVISION CHIEFS take time out during coffee break to grin for cruise-book photographer. MISSLEMAN gets lesson in data reduc- tion, practice with slide rule. 4