CV-63 Deployments - Major Events Add a CV-63 Shellback Initiation Add a CV-63 Deployment - Major Event MonthYeartoMonthYearDeployment / Event JAN 1956 - JAN 1961 Construction of CV63 was done by New York Shipbuilding Corp DEC 1956 - Keel Date: 27 DEC 1956at New York Naval Shipyard ...
During his time in the Navy, he also served at the Naval Air Station, Midway Island; USS Sierra, and finally at the Naval Operations Base in Shanghai. I am so very proud of my father and his part in the amazing history of the USS Iowa! Mike Justice Hails from: Matewan, WV ...
His response…) A Midway Island Tsunami memory - 1957 "During the very first months of my tour on Midway Island and around August or September of 1956, we CT's were berthed on Sand Island, and worked on Eastern. We were in the front room, and on the second floor of a wooden ...