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...Within 60 days, in January 1960, VF-11 was disestablished. Next day at Cecil field, VF-43 was disestablished and immediately commissioned as VF-11, so the "Rippers" were not to die. Me and 2 others went from "old 11" to "new 11," a good mix of PN1 Paul Abel, AOC 'Ski, and this second class mech.
The new VF-11 was flying F8U-1s and before long, I found myself back at sea in the workup cycle and we later made the shakedown of Independence (CV-62) to Gitmo. I was a line PO and Power Plants super for most of it. Stayed with them through the next Med cruise in '60 and left in Naples for shore duty. The day I left Capodichino for home, I said good-bye to the maintenance officer, LCDR Jack Barnes, who was taking a bird up for a test flight. This was the day--for after preflight and taxi out, he flew that long tube off into the sky with his wings still folded! He made it around very carefully and managed to get her back down in one piece. Lady luck flew that day!
This was also the period when LTJG Duke Hernandez picked up a replacement Crusader from Rota and flew it back to Naples for later recovery aboard. Somehow, with the foul weather he overflew all of Italy and landed in Yugoslavia! Took a few days to get a hoofer and folks over to get him back and it is true that he did not come home. Rather, he flew aboard Saratoga and spent a few memorable hours with ADM "Cat" Brown, COMSIXTHFLT to explain his peccadilloes. It evidently did not hurt career-wise for Duke was to retire as VADM some years later. I worked with him in OPNAV and he later was my CO in JFK (CV-67)...
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jedna kaubojska pričaE, sad - ja na ojoj fotografiji koja je navodno snimljena u Jugoslaviji vidim da je nešto napisano na trupu ispod levog krila, u tri reda, i da se u drugom i trećem redu nazire "Air National Guard"...
Takođe, za avion AB-212:
F8U-1 (F-8A) 145347 *1961: VF-11 as “AB-212“.
*Converted to TF-8A.
*Currently preserved at the USN Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL. At Sherman Field?
Photo of 145347 F8U-1 (F-8A) 145357 *1961: VF-11 as “AB-212“.
*10/21/1961: Ditched into the sea while landing on CVA-42.
Photo of 145357 F8U-2NE (F-8E) 150858 *1964-65: VF-11 as "AB-212".
*1966: VMF(AW)-235.
*11/11/1966: Shot down by ground fire near Vinh Linh/Dong Hoi, North Vietnam.
Photo of 150858 Od ova tri broja, meni se čini da avion na fotografiji nosi 145357, iako se ne vidi od krila...