Thursday 02/26/2004 11:22:23am

Name:

Terri Lorio

E-Mail:

tcann1955@aol.com

Location:

Comments:

My Dad Burney Pemberton was on the Midway in 1946. He is in the June 26, 1947 VF-1B group photo sent in by Vince Jackson. If you know anything about it please email me.

Wednesday 02/25/2004 10:54:25pm

Name:

Steve Lowe

E-Mail:

scubalow@aol.com

Location:

Yardley, PA

Comments:

My dad (Robert E. Lowe) was among the first crew aboard, designated plank owner during WW2. It was an exciting time for him and certainly had a major part in shaping his life. I just wish I could hear all his stories again.

Wednesday 02/25/2004 9:13:59am

Name:

John T. Rieman

E-Mail:

jtrcvb41@msn.com

Location:

Missouri / Massachusetts

Comments:

1945-46, plank owner, SC/2cl. aft galley

Monday 02/23/2004 4:01:20pm

Name:

LeFevre, John A.

E-Mail:

jplefevre@earthlink.net

Location:

Lake Isabella, California

Comments:

A great idea for us old sailors. 51/53

Sunday 02/22/2004 3:03:23pm

Name:

Joseph C. Moehring

E-Mail:

moehringj@aol.com

Location:

San Jose California

Comments:

I served aboard the Midway from 1961-1966. I was in G division forward bomb crew.

Wednesday 02/18/2004 6:34:56pm

Name:

Jeffrey K. Taniguchi

E-Mail:

taniguchi@wideopenwest.com

Location:

Westerville, OH

Comments:

This website gives me a lot of good memories of our port visits and the friends I made. The Midway was a great ship and it had a great crew.

Wednesday 02/18/2004 10:22:16am

Name:

STOCKSDALE, JOSEPH M.

E-Mail:

joe@dorie2002@yahoo.com

Location:

Comments:

I WAS IN VF-161 FROM LATE 81 TO EARLY 85. THE BEST TIME OF MY YOUNG LIFE. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OTHER ROCKS IF ANY ARE OUT THERE. LONG LIVE THE MAGIC.

"STOCKS"

ROCKRIVERS RULE

Tuesday 02/17/2004 9:27:37pm

Name:

Sammy Coleman

E-Mail:

Location:

Alabama

Comments:

Glad to see her come back!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday 02/14/2004 8:17:18am

Name:

Kenneth S. Jacque aka "Jocko"

E-Mail:

ksjacque@atsugi.navy.mil

Location:

Atsugi, Japan

Comments:

I was stationed onboard the USS Midway from Aug '88 until July '91, through the explosions that knocked me on my butt and killed three friends on June 20, 1990 and through the Persian Gulf War. Can't wait until I rotate back to the 'States to see her again, and feel the source of the Magic I still feel inside!

Saturday 02/14/2004 7:13:43am

Name:

Jim Lyle

E-Mail:

tocfm@yahoo.com

Location:

Comments:

Found a cruise jacket from West Pac 90 and started looking around the net. Great site! Lots of good memories. I was onboard from 89 and rode her back from Japan. VFA-151 and HSL-51. Good times.

Friday 02/13/2004 8:53:41pm

Name:

Rijhon M. Wheeler

E-Mail:

rmwdesigns@adelphia.net

Location:

Marina Del Rey, CA

Comments:

I have to say thanks for such a great archive of the Midway. I was part of OS division and worked as a Cryptologist aboard from 10/83 to 11/85. The best memories. Thanks for keeping them alive.

Friday 02/13/2004 11:03:44am

Name:

lacey

E-Mail:

bakagaijinchan@yahoo.com

Location:

Comments:

I noticed that someone who signed this guestbook a few months ago was looking for JUAN MALDONADO-RAYO. Well, if you read this and you're still looking, I know where he is.....

~ Troy (Owner, MidwaySailor.com)

Saturday 02/07/2004 6:19:22pm

Name:

David W. Sacoff

E-Mail:

dwsacoff@hotmail.com

Location:

Comments:

E-Division 90-92

Saturday 02/07/2004 1:42:38pm

Name:

Daniel Rush, AM1

E-Mail:

drush@vinson.navy.mil

Location:

Comments:

I'm on my last tour in the Navy with Carl Vinson but I was attached to VA-115 From 1985 to 1989. I was TAD to ships company during EISRA, when they put those stupid blisters on the hull, and with the line shack for the 1987-88 I.O. Earnest Will Cruise.

I love telling these younger kids, who'll never know the joys of a hot day in the Philippines or the "real" Pattaya Beach, what a real aircraft carrier is. Compared to the Magic, Carl Vinson is a spoiled brat.

I think my favorite memory of Midway is Admiral Lyle Bull, our battle group commander. I was fond of his sense of history...like the night we sailed through the southern Islands of the Philippines during WARPACEX 88 and we had the USS Enterprise chasing us. The Admiral gave an impromptu history lesson that night as we sat anchored in Suragao Straits, the same location where a line of old Pearl Harbor battleships destroyed the last of Imperial Japan's Naval forces in World war II.

Bull was one of our most brilliant modern commanders, He and Captain Mixon made that ship's later years exciting and glorious. When the Midway left Japan for the last time I was based out of Atsugi. The emotions the Japanese people extended to her were the same as if she'd been a member of their own fleet, they loved us and we loved them. The day the Midway left was the day the real Navy and the real WESTPAC died.

I was so happy that the old warrior didn't end up like the FDR and the Coral Sea, chopped to pieces by uncaring hands. She still looks wonderful.

She was the finest warship in the fleet, the best carrier in the West Pac and the baddest, meanest mother (beeeep) in the world. No wonder the Russians wasted so much paper writing messages about her, they were terrified of her!

That's why I can wear my leather Midway jacket with pride, smirk at these Carl Vinson people and tell them what whimps they really are.

Dan Rush, AM1

Friday 02/06/2004 6:58:06pm

Name:

Craig S. Warren (GF/AT2)

E-Mail:

cswarren@worldnet.att.net

Location:

El Paso, TX

Comments:

The recent photos put into your site are great. They really bring back memories of when I was in GM Division from Oct 1958 to Feb 1961. One of those memories was having to swab up all the water left in one of our magazines on the 5th deck after the fire in the "after HEAF pump room" while the Midway was tied up at Subic Bay. Those of us who were down there probably sweat as much as we swabbed up. The ship's damage control people did a fine job with some help from the Base Fire Department to prevent that fire from spreading. There had even been talk of putting out to sea "just in case." I'm looking forward to going aboard as soon as I can and hope some roaming about the ship will be permitted. I'm curious just how much the interior may have changed since I was aboard.

Thursday 02/05/2004 8:27:54pm

Name:

Chester O. Morris

E-Mail:

snipe69@gwi.net

Location:

Portland, Maine

Comments:

I served aboard Midway from 1962 to 1965. A Div Diesels. Good Ship.

Wednesday 02/04/2004 3:05:19pm

Name:

BM3 David Barras

E-Mail:

sprdave6200@yahoo.com

Location:

New Iberia, LA

Comments:

Looking to hook up with former shipmates in Deck Dept. from 1979-1984.

Tuesday 02/03/2004 9:17:33pm

Name:

Richard F. Griswold AFCM Ret

E-Mail:

rgriswo1@rochester.rr.com

Location:

Hamlin, NY

Comments:

HU-2 Det 35 World Cruise 1954 1955 Lakehurst, NJ Nine months of a 26 year tour 1951-1978. Looking forward to a return visit.

Monday 02/02/2004 10:04:40am

Name:

Jim Huntington

E-Mail:

treeman@effingham.net

Location:

Effingham, IL

Comments:

Need reunion info, I was on destroyer USS Black DD-666 55/59. I remember the Midway very well.

Sunday 02/01/2004 8:52:23pm

Name:

RP1(Ret.) Linnie Ray

E-Mail:

chillylc60@yahoo.com

Location:

Comments:

I was blessed to serve aboard USS MIDWAY twice, 1982-85 and 1986-88. Long live the "Magic".