[Jen]

Drop on in at the FReeper Foxhole!

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[Chad Fairbanks]

Hmmm.... I can dig it ;0)

[TinkersDam]

What is this nonsense? Internal SPAM?
I don't want these lenghty posts sent to me.

[Admin Moderator]

AntiJen, TinkersDam didn't read your note to send you a note if one wants off the ping list and instead hit abuse. Could you remove him/her? Thanks, AM

[E.G.C.]

Bump for the Freeper Foxhole

[liberallarry]

Please remove me from the FReeper Foxhole ping list. Every day is too much. Once every two weeks is all right. Thanks.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Hi Jen - good to see you. : ) Thanks for the ping.

[Joe Brower]

Thanks for the ping. Cool pix. I've always loved WW II aircraft, and the P-38 Lightning most of all. Every time I think of how thousands of them were chopped to bits after the war was over, I feel ill. What a waste!

[glock rocks]

Jen, i appreciate the pings... and really enjoy reading Sam's history selections.

keep up the great work.

[gatex]

Thanks for the ping--

Fascinating pictures and descriptions.

[miloklancy]

I have the greatest respect for Veterans who served in Vietnam. However all this stuff is before my time and I don't think there is anything substantive I can contribute here. Please take me off the Freeper Foxhole posting list. Thank you.

Best, miloklancy

[x-navy seal]

Thanks for the ping.

I was just listening to one of my Grandfathers stories about his pilot days of WW2. He flew a B-24 over Germany near the end of the war. He was on a mission where the germans were firing time delay anti aircraft shells, and his plane took a hit. He said it blew a large hole in one of the wings. (fortunately it wasn't a percussion shell or he wouldn't be here to tell about it.) He then took two more hits and lost all power. He and his entire crew bailed out. Grandpa was the last one to bail out, and as he was parachuting down, he saw the plane start a long roll to the right. He said his plane circled around and almost hit him. He and his crew landed in hostile Yugoslavia. He was lucky to be reached by the underground, who smuggled him out of the country. It took them 30 days to get him out (Very tough month for my mother and grandmother). If the Germans would have gotten to him first, they would have tied his hands and feet, then shot him in the back of the head, as they did to all bomber crews.

[mafree]

FReeper Foxhole Bump.

[usastandsunited]

No he is not correct. You are confusing the Internet with "web sites". Maybe the most hit web sites are porn sites, i don't know. The Internet is the sum of networked computers. Don't confuse the "Internet" with some web sites hosted at some ISPs that will probably be out of business in a year or two.
Communication has made the Internet what it is today. If you have to pin one thing down to say something has made the Internet what it is today, that would be none other than the still dominant Internet Killer application called "Email".

[Fiddlstix]

Click Here for more Graphics J

[Gone_Postal]

Thanks for the pings
I have been enjoying them

Please keep em comming........

[Aura Of The Blade]

Jen - I had no idea, but according to the history channel there was over 30 million huey/slick missions flown in the RVN? I know it's not WWII related, but what the heck :)

Thank you to all U.S. and allied WWII pilots. Some of those escort fighters look pretty sharp considering the technology back then.

[GailA]

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Rendova (CVE-114)

Commencement Bay class escort aircraft carrier
Displacement: 11,373 t.
Length: 557’1”
Beam: 75’
Extreme Width: 105’2”
Draft: 32’
Speed: 19 k.
Complement: 1,066
Armament: 2 5”; 36 40mm

USS RENDOVA (CVE-114), originally assigned the name MOSSER BAY, was laid down by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., 15 June 1944; launched 29 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Anna-Marie H. Kurtz; and commissioned 22 October 1945, Capt. R. W. Ruble in command.

Commissioned too late for service in World War II, RENDOVA completed shakedown in early January 1946, and reported for duty with the 1st Fleet in February. During March, she conducted exercises off the west coast, but in April, her complement was reduced to a maintenance crew. Immobilized at San Diego for a year, she remained on the active list as the administrative headquarters for Carrier Division 15 (CarDiv 15). In the spring of 1947, she returned to full active duty and for the next year conducted training exercises off the west coast and in the Hawaiian Islands

On 1 April 1948, she departed San Francisco en route to Turkey with a cargo of AT-6 training planes for that country's air force. Steaming via the Panama Canal, she arrived at Yesilkoy 28 April, off loaded her cargo, and continued her voyage 4 May. She moved south to Suez, thence crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans. With numerous good will visits en route, she returned to San Diego 1 July, only to depart again on another mission, this time to Tsingtao, on the 28th. At Tsingtao 23-27 August, she was back in San Diego, her homeport, in late September and through the fall trained on the west coast. With the new year, 1949, she again sailed west; operated between Tsingtao and Okinawa until mid-April; then returned to her homeport and resumed 1st Fleet training operations. In October, she arrived at Bremerton, where, after overhaul, she was decommissioned, 27 January 1950, and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet.

Six months later the North Korean Army crossed the 38th Parallel and RENDOVA was ordered activated. Recommissioned 3 January 1951, she reported for duty in April and on 3 July steamed west. She arrived at Yokosuka 2 August; underwent further training off Okinawa, then on 20 September, arrived at Kobe to relieve SICILY (CVE-l18) as aircraft carrier unit under CTG 95.1.

On the 22d, she completed embarking personnel, planes (F4Us), and equipment of Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 212. On the 23d, she conducted carrier qualifications for the squadron. On the 24th, she loaded ammunition and supplies at Sasebo and on the 25th, she got underway for operating area "Nan" in the Yellow Sea. There she relieved carrier HMS GLORY (R 62) assuming CTE 95.11, and on the 26th, launched her first close air support sortie. During the next months, she cruised off the west coast of Korea, alternating with carrier HMAS SYDNEY (R 17) as CTE 95.11. VMF-212 recorded 1,743 sorties in support of ROK, U.S. Marine, and EUSAK ground forces; enforcing the U.N. blockade; rendering SAR assistance, and flying armed and photo reconnaissance missions. On 17 November, the ship and the squadron established a new sortie record for CVEs--64.

RENDOVA completed her last support operation 6 December. By the 22d, she was back at San Diego and with the new year, 1952, she resumed west coast training operations with the 1st Fleet. In September, she sailed west again and for 2 months participated in Operation "Ivy"--an atomic test series in the Marshalls, then she returned to California. In commission, in reserve in 1953, she continued her training activities off the west coast, and in 1954 returned to the active fleet and another WestPac deployment, this time as a hunter-killer carrier. Back in California by mid-June, she conducted exercises out of Long Beach until October, then shifted to Mare Island for preinactivation overhaul. She reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco Group, 2 February 1955 and was decommissioned 30 June. Reclassified AKV-14 in 1959, she remained in the Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy list 1 April 1971.

RENDOVA earned two battle stars for Korean war service.

[lavaroise]

Bump

[scaredkat]

Please remove me from the ping list. Thanks. I will check in from time to time.