Yorktown (CVA 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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List of aircraft and events is carefully written backward on transparent plastic board. . ,V iviig, :Misty it 7 Xxx XX ml f '- A record of all airborne planes is kept up to date. Intent upon radar screens, carrier controlled approach crew guides airplaines to safe landings in bad Weather. OI DIVISION Front row: Keith Horton, Leon Luxa, Archie Farr, LT.William Ellis, LCDR john Wunderlich, LCDR William Schall, LCDR Charles Leonard, Billy Byars, Mike Eagan, Joe Liberto. Second row: Kelly Harmon, Larry Ahlvers, Shirley Roberts, Charles Sheridan, Kenneth Burge, Jay Pittman, Earl Williams, Jackie Oliver, Walter Thompson, William Parker. Third row: Max Provencio, Tom Aubert, jackie Hamrick, Jim Lohr, Clark Schmidt, James Walker, Walt Sanders, Fred Damkroger, Bill Green. I f J 'maui

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