[AT] Thank You Vets

[charlie hill]

Don I no longer repeat the details of the story my friend William told me 
about that trip from
Vietnam to Korea aboard the Enterprise.  Every time I do people tell me it’s 
not possible so
I gave up but my friend William was a quiet guy and straight up honest and I 
know what he told
me.  I'll repeat all but the top speed here.  He said a destroyer left out 
the day before them
and after they got underway in a matter of just hours (I don't remember the 
exact details now)
they had run the destroyer down and passer her.  He said the captain would 
not tell them the
exact top speed they reached because it was classified and far above the 
published speed.
If I told you what the captain did tell them it is still above what most 
folks would believe so I'll
leave it at that.  William died last year and for years I've wanted to ask 
him to tell me that story
again but I never did.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Don
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 6:11 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Thank You Vets

On 11/12/2015 5:35 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> He was on her when the N. Koreans captured
> our spy ship in the late 60's and took a high speed ride up the coast as 
> we
> repositioned assets for that episode.

Long ago and far away.  I was air crew on the Kearsarge CVS33 when that
happened.  We were in Subic Bay in the Philippines for a scheduled
week.  Some friends and I were on Grande Island, playing in the water,
exploring the fortifications, drinking beer, and eating hamburgers.
That evening we retired to the EM club to continue the most import
activity of the day.  This was out last port before heading to Japan
then Hawaii then home.  They announced that liberty was cancelled and
all were to return to their ships.

The boat that went back and forth was a WWII era landing craft and it
did not take much thought to realize there was no way they had room so
we stayed.  A round trip was about 45 minutes.  You could buy a large
Dixie Cup of San Miguel Beer for a dime so we would each buy all we
could carry.  They kept announcing the next boat and we kept buying
beer.  It got to the point where they would turn out the lights and
people would head for the dock with hands full of Dixie Cups.  The boat
would fill and lights would come back n.  This continued until it got
down to the last of us.  My friends and I were at the back of the crowd
and knew this was the boat we would take.  Then some drunk dived off the
dock onto the boat and all we saw were flying fists.  The boat backed
out and the lights came back on.

We pulled out later that night, had a six hour stop over is Sasabo Japan
and were soon off Korea.  Were were there for several weeks then headed
for Yokosuka Japan then Hawaii then home.  The problem was that I was
due to get out at the end of May.  I made it, the first newscast we
heard from the mainland was the MLK assassination.

-- 
Don Bowen       --AD0NB--

_______________________________________________
AT mailing list
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at