REMEMBERING THE ALL-TOO-BRIEF LIFE OF LTJG BILL MCWILLIAMS 50 YEARS LATER
7 June 1966, the Sundowners were packing up and shipping out from Miramar. The checking in…
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COMMENTS FROM DICK SCHAFFERT
Admiral Taylor: Can’t seem to make the “comments” portion of your web site work for me,…
2200 HOURS, FLIGHT DECK, USS ORISKANY, TONKIN GULF . . . FOCUS!
I peered over the right side of the cockpit of my F8-C…
THE LIGHT-WEIGHT FIGHTER MAFIA
Admiral Bear Taylor, So sorry and disappointed to hear about the loss of Chuck Myer! With…
GOODNIGHT PARIS . . . FAREWELL NAPLES . . . GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
Goodnight Paris . . . Farewell Naples . . . Good Morning Vietnam! In April 1965,…
IN SUPPORT OF ADMIRAL TAYLOR’S VIEW OF OUR MOTIVATIONS FOR SERVICE
When I graduated from Cornhusker U. in ’55, I fulfilled my parents’ goal and became the…
CASTING A NUGGET FROM COLD STEEL: JOHN LAUGHTER
During Johnson and McNamara’s Rolling Thunder, Carrier Air Wing Sixteen made three major deployments (Apr ’65-Jan…
COMMENT ON ADMIRAL TAYLOR’S EXCELLENT POST CONCERNING THE DRAFT
As a member of President Carter’s NDU Study Team which was sent to “study” NATO and…
1730 HOURS 5 NOVEMBER 1967, USS ORISKANY, YANKEE STATION
At the time of his death, Edwin Van Orden was my roommate on USS Oriskany. Ed…
AIR WING SIXTEEN IRON HAND v. HANOI/PHUC YEN
Air Wing Sixteen IRON HAND v. Hanoi/Phuc Yen, 24-25 October 1967 The President of the United…
AIR WING SIXTEEN SAR’S OFF ORISKANY ON YANKEE
While conducting combat operations on Yankee Station in October ’66, an explosion and fire aboard USS…
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE ON THE HANGAR DECK!
“FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE IN THE HANGAR DECK!” 0725 HOURS, 26 OCTOBER 1966, USS ORISKANY ON…
