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To: USNBandit

LOL...I had three cruises right underneath the wires...I still remember hearing the planes as they approached, then...WHAM!

The sound of the cables running out, then hearing them retracted back into place finally going “click...click...click” as they cam to rest on to top of the metal thingies that pushed them a few inches off the deck!

Over, and over, and over again!


60 posted on 08/23/2014 8:06:36 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Anyone who will shift their stance so fluidly in the pursuit of support isn't worth supporting.")
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To: rlmorel

I slept port side third deck more or less below the aft mess decks chow line. We could hear the planes land even that far down and had to hear the sonar dome pinging 24/7 at sea. It sounded like a cross between a door in needing oiling and a whale. We were the only carrier built with a sonar dome from what the guys operating said. It was taken out in the 80 overhaul I think.


64 posted on 08/23/2014 8:21:23 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: rlmorel

I had three cruises right underneath the wires.
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Similar to what I posted before seeing your comment.
I also served on “Rosie” but finished active duty in 1962.


85 posted on 08/24/2014 5:44:40 AM PDT by octex
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