Eye on History

All Hands, Sept, 2004

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1966

With warplanes crowding her flight deck, the attack aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA 42) steams at high speed in the Gulf of Tonkin in the company of the attack carrier USS Intrepid (CVA 11). Along with a third "on the line" attack carrier at Yankee Station, they provided more than half of the entire U.S. air strikes against North Vietnamese military targets.

1943

A torpedo is brought topside aboard USS Fulton (AS 11).

1945

Attitudes displayed by the members of a Navy bomber squadron vary From bored and nonchalont to unrestrained eagerness as they are briefed aboard their carrier before the opening strike of the two-day attack on Tokyo.

1964

MR1 Seguro D. Gill uses a metal sprayer to build up worn metal while MRC Irving Backus watches the operation.

1968

A large crowd greeted the visiting destroyer tender USS Frontier (AD 25) when she arrived in Hilo, Hawaii, For a two-day recreational visit. Among those on hand, were a group of Hawaiian dancers who sang and performed native dances.

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