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VQ-1 World Watchers
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WATCH: This Is What It Was Like to Fly the Whale From a Carrier Deck
Experience the Life of an EA-3B Skywarrior Crew During a Mid-1980s WestPac Deployment Bruce “Shooter” Gamble was a Navigator with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ-1) World Watchers between 1982…
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WATCH: A Day in WestPac Aboard the Mighty Oriskany
This 1971 Film Depicted a Mark 1, Mod 0 Day in the Tonkin Gulf When the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) hosted the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Group to…
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Ranger 12: Naval Aviation is a Risky Business- Especially at Night
The Douglas A3D Skywarrior was the largest and heaviest aircraft to regularly operate from US Navy aircraft carriers. They were not restricted to the Forrestal-class “supercarriers” either. They operated from…
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