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Yeah that's me with the sound powered phones on ... I'm at my station, operating the #1 ordnance elevator, located just forward of the island, adjacent to the starboard catapult...

If memory serves me well, we are preparing to unrep ammo and supplies from a ship approaching from aft...

The guy behind me is getting ready to fire a shot-line to the other ship which will initiate the the passing of successively larger lines that will enable the transfer of hundreds of tons of materials necessary to conduct the air war over Vietnam for only another week...

While I'm fitting-out the rest of this website for it's anticipated shake-down cruise later this spring...

Please visit the many interesting websites to be found on the Aircraft Carriers Of The World Web Ring...

This great photograph by Jerry Edwards
appeared in US Navy Air Wings 1965-1975
Published by Osprey Publishing of London UK

As you read this, the Oriskany lies rusting away, at anchor in the Natches River Channel at the Naval Reserve Fleet Facility near Beaumont Texas...

She was towed to Beaumont during the summer of 1999 from San Francisco around South America via the Straits of Magellan...

The 4 month, 18,000 mile voyage at 6 knots cost in excess of 4.28 million dollars... money that could have gone a long way towards restoring the ship...

There is an ongoing discussion concerned with efforts to save the Oriskany from the scrap yards and preserve her as a nautical museum at a southeastern port city such as Tampa Bay Florida... To learn more, offer support or just chat, log on to the Oriskany Forum at the BraveNet link below: