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This is the ship I served onboard from 1978 to 1981. She served the Mediterranean Sea area primarily. You will see she was decommissioned, her final demise was to be sunk by our own military because it was one of the most recent carrier class so they wanted to see what it would take to bring her down:(
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Tribute
Added: 11th November 2007
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This vintage public service announcement was aimed at Second World War servicemen. Never forget a 'pickup girl' might be a carrier of syphilis even though she looks clean.
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Added: 23rd March 2008
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This is clipped from Trial by Fire: A Carrier Burns, a 1973 film produced by the United States Navy about the devastating 1967 fire aboard USS Forrestal off the coast of Vietnam. The film is unique in that it was produced from actual footage of the fire and emergency response efforts, both successful and unsuccessful, taken by on board cameras. Due to the first bomb blast killing nearly all of the specially trained firefighters on the ship, the remaining crew, who had no formal firefighting training, had to improvise. Though there were many firefighting tools available on the Forrestal, including emergency respirators, the general crew was not trained in their use and so were unable to use them correctly. In response to this tragedy, recommendations made were: development of a remote-control fire-fighting system for the flight deck, development of more stable ordnance, improvement in survival equipment, and increased training in emergency response and fire survival. This film has been used to teach new recruits firefighting and emergency response lessons learned in the mishap.
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hazwoper
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EPA
FEMA
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fuel
fire
NIEHS
incident
command
training
safety
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Added: 29th July 2008
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In Their Own Words ..
Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II
The China - Burma - India Theater
Throughout the history of the world, in times of peril and aggression, nations have called upon their military forces for defense against their enemies. Our country has been very fortunate for, whenever the men and women who comprise our Army, Navy, air forces and other services have been called upon; they have served their country bravely and faithfully, regardless of where they were sent or what they were asked to do. Many Americans remember their dedicated service and are appreciative of their performances, but, too soon after the danger is over, the services of these veterans fade into oblivion. — 1st Lt. Albert O. Wilkat CBI Veteran, Pilot, 2nd Troop Carrier Squadron, USAAF
to the men of Merrill's Marauders
to the pilots and crews of the Burma Banshees
and to ALL who served in the CBI
"When you get back, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today."
Flim Clips
American Pathe News
BBC Worldwide Library
Grinberg Libraries
Library of Congress
National Archives
Paramount News
Reuters Television Library
The Veterans
88thFS, 80thFG Burma Banshees
Captain Kenneth Wilbur Thomas
5307th Composite Unit Merrill's Marauders
Private Kermit A. Bushur
Second Lieutenant Herbert Clofine
Technician Four Lester Lawrence Hollenback
Staff Sergeant Warner Katz
Staff Sergeant Robert E. Passanisi
Captain Philip B. Piazza
Technician Five Sigmund S. Bialosky 1891st Engineer Aviation Battalion
Frank D. Girard Air Transport Command
Lieutenant Colonel George J. Laben 2nd Troop Carrier Sq, 343rd Group, 10th AF
Sergeant Earl Lester Mahl 613th Field Artillery Battalion
Cpt. James Edward Rice Air Transport Command
music
fanfare for the common man
Aaron Copeland
where eagles dare
633 squadron
battle for britain
Ron Goodwin
victory at sea suite
Richard Rodgers
conceived and produced by
For more information on the China - Burma - India Theater of Operations, we highly recommend
CHINA - BURMA - INDIA
Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II
http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net
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Veterans
CBI
China
Burma
India
Merrill
Added: 25th September 2008
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"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song written, composed, and performed by Gordon Lightfoot in commemoration of the sinking of the bulk carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. It was inspired by the Newsweek article on the event, "The Cruelest Month," which appeared in the issue of November 24, 1975. The song originally appeared on Lightfoot's 1976 album, Summertime Dream, and was later released as a single. The single reached #2 on the Billboard pop charts in November 1976, making it Lightfoot's second most successful (in terms of chart position) single. 1976.
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Lightfoot
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Added: 14th April 2009
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The third USS America (CV-66), formerly CVA-66, was a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996. She was the fifth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name.
Originally ordered as an Enterprise-class nuclear carrier, the ballooning costs of Enterprise during construction caused the cancellation of the nuclear CVAN-66 and her reordering as a conventionally-powered Kitty Hawk-class carrier. She would still be operational if it was a nuclear ship. She was decommissioned in a ceremony at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va on 9 August 1996.America was planned to be sold for scrapping. However, she was chosen to be a live-fire test and evaluation platform in 2005, to aid the design of future aircraft carriers.After the completion of the tests, America was sunk in a controlled scuttling on 14 May 2005 at approximately 11:30, although the sinking was not publicized until six days later. At the time, no warship of that size had ever been sunk, and effects were closely monitored; theoretically the tests would reveal data about how supercarriers respond to battle damage. The ship rests 16,860 ft. below the Atlantic Ocean surface, roughly 250 miles off the North Carolina coast
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to
Say
Goodbye
USS
AMERICA
CV-66
Norfolk
VA
Added: 22nd May 2009
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1992
Aqua Team- Brandon Call, Nicole Dubuc, Chelsea Hertford, Adam Jeffries, Haylie Johnson, Mario Lopez, Carol-Ann Plante, Jill Setter, Taran Smith.
Blue Team- Olivia Burnette, Corey Carrier, Joey Lawrence, Ashlee Levitch, Kellie Martin, Jeremy Miller, Josh Saviano, Jodie Sweetin, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
Coral Team- Mayim Bialik, Janel Bishop, Zachery Ty Bryan, Josh Byrne, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Sylver Gregory, Matthew Lawrence, Brittany Murphy, Danny Pintauro.
Fuschia Team- Candace Hutson, Ashley Johnson, A.J. Langer, Darius McCrary, Christopher Pettiet, David Rhoden, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jenna Von Oy, Angela Watson.
The right way, yup in the 90's..they should do things like that now a days to raise money for good causes like these.
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Sega
Star
Kid
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Universal
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Orlando
FL
1992
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II
Added: 19th August 2012
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