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Jul 30, 2020 13:46:09   #
Mac wrote:
I was an 18 year old Aviation Ordnanceman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnlWKdD2fI


In 1959, as 19 year old Aircraft Controlman (Flight Deck Crew) on the HMCS Bonaventure, I was very fortunate to visit the Forrestal as we were tied alongside her in Norfolk Naval Base. I had met a member of Her crew at the Base pub, he offered to take me aboard and I accepted. He also brought me up to the hangers for a visit and so I got to see the new F11F. I was very impressed. The Bonaventure at that time was flying Banshee F2H3s and Tracker CS2Fs. I will forever be grateful to that fellow sailor for that. Phil
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Apr 3, 2018 15:19:39   #
I think you mean "I couldn't care less". If you "could care less" means that you do care somewhat, The other means that you don't care at all.
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Feb 21, 2018 15:02:16   #
The Quiet Man ... He'll regret this till the day he dies; if he ever lives that long. Victor McLaglen about John Wayne
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Oct 24, 2017 09:57:34   #
Happens, all too often, in the city too. Pop cans, etc. on the ground-sometimes right beside a trash can. City pigs have no pride of Place.
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May 9, 2017 08:46:40   #
In the spring of
1959 my ship, the aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure, was tied-up alongside the USS Forrestal at Norfolk Naval base. As luck would have it, I met up with one of the crew of the Forrestal at the EM's club where he invited me to go on board his ship.

I jumped at the chance and was impressed at the size of it compared to my ship which was a light-fleet carrier (20,000 tons).
It certainly was the largest ship I ever boarded.
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Apr 24, 2017 09:56:35   #
You can get most of those old radio shows on your iphone with this free app : "OTR Streamer: old time radio
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Mar 23, 2017 10:23:23   #
I saw her upstairs at The Metropole Café in 1959 sharing a Bill with Buddy Rich. I just happened in and lucked out big time. My ship, the Canadian Carrier HMCS Bonaventure was there for the 200th Anniversary celebration of the discovery of the Hudson River. Also Marion, you might like to know is the only white musician in the famous 1958 photo 'A Great Day in Harlem'
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