Yorktown (CVA 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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Come forward, straighten that nose wheel, and we'll launch you , these are the thoughts of a plane director as he makes final alignment of MacDonnell Banshee on catapult. With its engine developing full power, a Douglas AD-6 Skyrader gets the signal for a deck launch. , I wonder if there's one in there for me? . V-1 DIVISION I Front row: Kulon Strickland, Jimmy Suner, William Adam, .Paul Mercurio, Charlie Drummond, Erick Selin. i Second row: Timothy Aniasco, Benny Walden, Richard Andree, Everett Bennett, LT Warren Carman, Richard 5 Hamm, Richard Walsh, William McClung, Lawrence Evans, Henrik, Goa. Third row: Charles Sanders, Bobbie I Diddon, Reese Small, Robert Altishin, Flank Blaha, Roger Claeys, Homer Hardy, Carl Parker. Fourth row: I Willie Lee, Ronald Presley, james Russell, Robbie Watson, Javous Durr, Carlos Jacobs, Frank Harper, Edward Lewis, Dave Coito. - S 5 1. 5 2 M'

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V-1 DIVISION Front row: Roger Burns, Dorman Walthall, Wilbur Duran, Kenneth Gabriel, Ronald Wilson, William Bennett. Second row: Ronald Bodeen, Billy Harrington, William Smith, Wilbur Thomas, George Bruce, CHAVOPTECH John Leroy, Carl Shoberg, Robert Freeman, Tommie Robinson, Loyd- Carden. Third row: Robert Thomas, Leo Fields, Henry Weakley, Herman Smith, Noel Simmons, James Littlejohn, Jerry Jones, James Ryan, Robert Weaver, Edward Troutt. Fourth row: Raymond Guy, Jerry Broker, Thomas Hibbard, Theodore Piland, Diego Vasquez, Lyle Burke, James Hider, Walter Robinson, John Shimmin, Calvin McDonald. Some have to push While some have to ride. Protected by jet blast deiiector, a plane director holds a Grum- man F9F-8 Cougar while a Fury is launched.

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