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Special thanks to Joe Storey and Jack Wink for putting faces to the names and insight on what is going on in the images.
Jack Wink during the Panama Cruise on CV-47 USS Philippine Sea, May 1950.
Joe Storey on an AD Skyraider at NAS Atsugi, Japan in 1951.
Abandon Ship Drill.
Unnamed faces.
Ditching Drill
From Joe Storey:
This photo is the VS-23 Ready Room. The pilots and crewmen are briefing and otherwise getting ready for the next launch.
Hank Chanaud and Bob Wand appear to be the lead pilots and are planning their flight. Those flat boards are the plotting boards used to navigate as we flew. It was all dead reckoning with very little electronic aids at all. (just that YE/YG system I mentioned a while back).
Front Row: CDR Ned Broyles VS-23 CO
ENS Hank Chanaud
LT Bob Wand (his name is printed on the shoulder strap of his mae west)
Further back LTJG Bob Scheuhing( can't remember how to spell his last name)
Standing ENS Lew Morrison
Seated ENS Willie Reyn
Just partially visible, seated behind Morrison ENS Jack Wink
Around them several enlisted aircraft crewmen
Jack Wink in flight gear with two unknown shipmates during a ditching drill. The aircraft is a
TBM Avenger. 1951 in the Pacific Ocean.
Ensign Joseph A. Meinhard on leave in Detroit, MI 1950 or 51.
The photographer of most of the images on this site.
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