RECONNAISSANCE ATTACK SQUADRON TWELVE USS Forrrestal
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RECONNAISSANCE ATTACK
SQUADRON TWELVE
USS Forrestal
Sixth Fleet Cruise
1968-1969
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Operations
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Spotting for Launch
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Pre-flight checks
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Manning up
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F4’s on the Angle
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A-5 Launch off #2
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In Flight
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Air Wing Fly By
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Rigging the Barricade Exercise
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A-5 in flight
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A-5 over mountains
(possibly Appenines)
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In Flight Refueling Demo(though A-4’s can’t transfer fuel fast enough for real ops)
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French F-8Encountered during combined exercise south of Marseilles
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Collapsed Landing Gear (1)
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Collapsed Landing Gear (2)(Bend pitot tube was due to a basket strike during IFR)
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A-3 ALSO with Collapsed RLG
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Cruiser USS Albany (?)(photo from gig heading to USS JFK anchorage)
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Night Ops
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A-5 Twilight Takeoff
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Launch off #2
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F-4 Launch off #1
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“Pinkie”
Case 3 recovery
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Night Landing
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Night Bolter
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Squadronmates
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Newby Kelt, RVAH-12 CO
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CDR Kelt Assuming Command( CAG Ferguson on Kelt’s right, Bill Turley to his left)
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John Huber, RVAH-12 XO
John was killed a few months after the end of this cruise
in a inflight fire just after takeoff from NAS Albany
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LT Bob Hunter (MCO) Observing a Launch
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RVAH-12 Maintenance
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LTJG Joe Crow
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LT Fred Litvin (SDO)
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LTJG Rod Anderson
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LCDR John McFadden
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John McFaddan and WO John Wiggins
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Shore Leave
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Going ashore
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Forrestal at Twilight
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New Years 1969, Golfe Juan, France
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LT Al Adams (post - SP duty)
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Hank Thorne, Bill Clerihan, Vince McManamon
(background)
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John Huber and Wyatt Foard, recovering
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Ray Barnum and NAA Tech Rep
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Tom Whittaker and Friends
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Buttoned up for the TransLant Home
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Back at Norfolk
Note Old/new Khaki, Going Home pennant