Seas were running 70 feet and even in the dark of night we could see glimmers of light as the typhoon whipped spray from the tops of wave crests and they were bathed in the occasional moonlight that escaped the cloud cover.
It was July 1969 and from the navigation bridge of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, [...]
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It was a fairly routine day, as if there is anything remotely resembling routine on an aircraft carrier. The ‘Hawk, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, was at the time the No. 1 attack carrier in Uncle Sam’s canoe club. It was 23 January 1968 and I was the communications traffic officer, and a mere LTjg. There being [...]
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I’ve guessed that the movie Top Gun is loosely based on the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo by the North Koreans in 1968 and have written about that. I think that the dogfight is highly reminiscent, but obviously not based directly on, an incident that also happened in 1968 to an F-4 Phantom based on [...]
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