Face Of A Nation (1967)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2010
- Department of Defense
PIN 25127
FACE OF A NATION
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE ATTACK AIRCRAFT CARRIER, AND THE MEN WHO MUST MAN AND MAINTAIN THE AIRCRAFT.
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My Dad is in this film at 12:46 minutes in the film, he is the landing signal officer and I have always been so proud of him, he was on the USS Independence in the mid 60's flying missions and
A Big Thank you to all of our Veterans.
Nice.
Tell your father we all say thank you for his service and all the others that is awesome that you get to see him in this video my dad was in Vietnam also I wish I could see him in one of these videos
@@jasonlieu5379 Awwh thank you Jason, and I sure will and I wish that you could see your father also in one of these video's because he is a hero as are all Veterans.
Worked on #3 and 4 catapults USS America ...Westpac-Tonkin Gulf 1968. This video captures very well what it is like on the Flight Deck . Nite Ops were the worst. Still remember how tired I was after 10 to 12 lauches a day. Would do it again as I made some great friendships .
I'll admit that it's a trivial detail, but as a former A-4 avionics guy, it does my heart good to see a fellow using a Simpson 260 meter to check the wiring at 8:55 After leaving the Corps, I went on to design avionics and other electronics, and used more modern meters.. but the Simpson 260 is still a classic!
Seeing the F-4's and A-4's A-6's on the USS Independence is wonderful, I even seen an A-5, speaking of the Vigilante it always seemed like a massive bird for a carrier.
So long ago but seems like yesterday to me.
First of all, thank you for your service to our country. Was AF in SEA on tankers out of Thailand several years after your time there, but your NAVY still was there! So many still don't realize that it takes many more than the airplane crew to make a mission successful.
Just saw an f4 land with 3 diamonds on the side of the fuselage! That would have been my squadron...VF-102 Diamondbacks, from NAS Oceana, Va....I was an Electrician on those lovely planes during 69-71. Today is Feb 10, 2023!
from 1971-1973, i served on USS Enterprise (CVN 65). i did fright deck refueling......she was some ship
carriers are like fine tuned football teams, everyone has a specific job to do.
Thanks AIRBOYD...A-4s forever!!!!
I worked on the flight deck on the USS America with VA36 during the 'Six Day War' in the Mediterranean Sea!
Wish I could take today's medicine and go back to the 60s lol
The A3 refuelers were used to top up any plane that came back low on fuel. I guess over land they might need topping up before returning from air force tankers. I still remember hooking up an A3 better known as the "Whale". All up weight approx. 72,000 lbs going from zero to 140kts in 2 1/2 seconds. Amazing what power super heated steam under pressure can generate....
There is always something happening somewhere... cool vid... thanks US Navy.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Y’all may think I’m crazy, BUT, DAMN, I REALLY MISS THIS SHIT. Pardon my yelling. Even at 73 Years old, I’d STILL be out there if they’d let me.
a beautiful thing - thanks!
Bill you must have been in a different WestPac. I had two tours on the Tico ('67, '68) and and a third was on the Oriskany ('69) and with three carriers operating, the standard was12 hours at a time (with 6 hour overlap, 1.5 hours per hop). That's 12 hours, 8 launches and recoveries, not 10-12. I was at Cubi Pt. when the America came over from the East Coast in '68, and we didn't laugh out loud, but it was funny seeing ship's company maning the rail coming onto the Philipines, a "war zone."
So many different aircraft types back then. O_O
Dang you don't see much about Vigilantes often... at all. I mean such an underrated aircraft. I want more about that bad bird!!
That’s the first aircraft I worked. The plane was WAY ahead of its time.
My Uncle Denny was mixed up somewhere in the Navy in 67. I believe he operated a swift boat.
I was on the Big E when she still had the “dome”.
I must say! I do like the 60's era videos verey mutch! I'm fascinated by the Vietnam war era airplanes.
Some beautiful planes
I’m pretty sure the narrator is the same guy as ‘Forensic Files’.
Great video. Former AF. Recognized the Navy version of the F-4 but it would be neat to know (for me) the other aircraft types taking off from the carriers. Thanks
Yes your memory is better than mine...badgeredirish33, It must have seemed like 10 to 12. Mainly did holdback position KA3Bs, RA5Cs. F4Js, which of course is no longer required with modern jets. Remember feeling the vibration through my mickey mouse ears when jets went into afterburners before being launched. That's probably why I can't hear my wife today when she is yelling at me with that high pitched squeal!!
Loved the part about a shipmate running sandwiches to his buddies. Maybe on the Forestall, but not on the Ranger (at least not when I was on her, which was in the early 80s). You either made the chow line or you were SOL. I guess some imaginative accounting officer thought that kind of parsimony was a great way to save the Navy a couple bucks a day.
What? didn't the Ranger think it was a good idea to get food crumbs into whatever you were working on, or oil and chemicals and such into your food? How silly of them.
The Ranger in the 1980s wasn't at war . They were.
2 or 3 flights a day..? I almost can't believe that... We had at max 12 or 15 planes and at least twice that in pilots.. They must have really been undermanned during Vietnam.
Hooyah!
your videos are very interesting
On the opening, one may be Midway alright, the less tall one but the tall one is definitley Enterprise. Don't recognize the pier at opening; nothing that I saw Wespac and San Diego and Bremerton 69-72 KittyHawk
The piers are at NOB Norfolk.
This narrator lasted into the late 90's.
Instantly recognizable voice.
He did a wide range of voice-overs, both commercials and documentaries.
Anyone know his name?
Kenneth C. Bishop
Peter Thomas; 1st Infantry Division WW II vet. Hugely accomplished voice over artist.
This definitely looks like a Navy promo film, probably during "CarrQuals" in the Atlantic; tail letters are for Air Wing 7, and the America, but plane lettering says the Independence which was in WestPac in 1965. A/C are A-4's (1:09), RA5-C (1:18), and an A-6 (1:27). At 13:52, there is a map of Itlay in the backgroud, so this was on, underway to, or returning from a Med cruise...take an extra set of whites and a checkbook! Opening is probably the Midway and the Independence at Norfolk.
I may have misheared it, but I thought it was 2-3 a minute
@djtowo Damn right mate
T.o.w. tail over water. Those Vigilantes were way over the water!
2020 USS Theodore Roosevelt Non Dloyable due to a Failure to Contain Covid 19 in Board.
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With distorted sound, antiquated VHS imaging, what to make of this? I have better stuff c. '67, '68, aboard the Bonnie and Tico, albeit in silent S8 color film. VA today doesn't want to hear or see this -- PACT, you might know, with nothing to be gained from them. So vote for big B and get your nothing in return (if you don't speak Spanish).
war is a stupid thing
Served big e 1963 1966 v1 JimCoulton