casualty prevented the assigned ship from going out-and got underway in a fast 75 minutes. Although she was only manned at 60 percent of her complement (because many of her officers and men were ashore on leave or liberty and could not be notified in time to return to the ship before ...
I'd been in the Army, to High School, an aircraft factory worker and to war and back as a sailor in the navy. I was only 17 years old, but now an older 17. Fortunately, I still had a young boy's body with all it's urges, so was thinking of my one-week Liberty and hitchhik...
Mary Soo the Sidecleaner gets the Yorktown spaghetti garbage; sailors on liberty in Hong Kong get spaghetti; Yorktown Sailor is tempted and falls in Hong Kong; repents. Tempted and falls again in Japan, etc. Click here Too Fast to Stop, Too Slow to Fly, Yorktown plane's crashes from ...
After Christmas liberty at Yokosuka Japan she returned to active operations in the South China Sea in January 1966. At the conclusion of that duty late in the month she set course for home arriving in San Diego on 6 February. She spent the remainder of 1965 in the eastern Pacific. After ...