Sunday, August 29, 2010

Antietam Cruise - Over 200 Carrier Landings in my logbook

Our Task force of 9 ships crossed the Atlantic and entered the Mediterranean Sea. I was a pilot in Anti-Submarine Squadron 31 aboard the USS Antietam.  These pictures, taken with my Argus C3 camera, capture carrier operations in 1956 
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The Airlines - Coming of the Jet Age

Started my career on the DC-6

My years as an airline pilot were a time of change.  The jets were just coming online.  The pilots were all white males and the flight attendants were all single, white females.  Click here to view.