USS Midway

 

USS Midway in the 2000's

Miscellaneous Photos

 

USS Midway

 

 

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USS Midway

2004

Charles Pfeil photo

USS Midway

2004

Charles Pfeil photo

USS Midway

2004

Charles Pfeil photo

USS Midway

2004

Charles Pfeil photo

USS Midway

2004

Charles Pfeil photo

USS Midway

2004

Clint Griffin Photo

USS Midway

2004

Courtesy of

Scott McGaugh

USS Midway

2004

Courtesy of

Scott McGaugh

USS Midway

2004

Steve Mueller

Photo

USS Midway

2004

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2004

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2004

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2004

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2004

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2004

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2004

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2004

Fred Greaves Photo

USS Midway

January 2004

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January 2004

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USS Midway

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USS Midway

 

April 2004

Chuck Cavanaugh

photo

USS Midway

May 01, 2004

T. Stone photo

USS Midway

May 01, 2004

T. Stone photo

USS Midway

May 01, 2004

T. Stone photo

USS Midway

May 01, 2004

T. Stone photo

USS Midway

June 18, 2004

LCPL Guevara

photo

USS Midway

June 18, 2004

LCPL Guevara

photo

USS Midway

June 18, 2004

LCPL Guevara

photo

USS Midway

June 18, 2004

LCPL Guevara

photo

USS Midway

June 18, 2004

LCPL Guevara

photo

USS Midway

Date Unknown

Brian Johnson

Photo

USS Midway

August 2004

Alex Eberle Photo

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August 2004

Alex Eberle Photo

USS Midway

August 2004

Alex Eberle Photo

USS Midway

August 2004

Alex Eberle Photo

USS Midway

September 2004

Fo'c'sle Restoration

USS Midway

Dale Frost Photo

USS Midway

May 28, 2005

Memorial Day Ceremony

USN Photo

USS Midway

September 16, 2005

MCPON Terry Scott speaks

during a chief petty officer

pinning ceremony

USN Photo

USS Midway

September 16, 2005

MCPON Terry Scott speaks

during a chief petty officer

pinning ceremony

USN Photo

USS Midway

October 21, 2005

C-1A Trader

Paul Webber Photo

USS Midway

December 21, 2005

U. S. Naval Academy

Cheerleaders

USN Photo

USS Midway

December 27, 2005

F-8K Crusader

On-Load

USN Photo

USS Midway

January 19, 2006

CVW-9 Change

of Command

USN Photo

USS Midway

March 2006

Ron French Photo

USS Midway

March 2006

Ron French Photo

USS Midway

March 2006

Ron French Photo

USS Midway

June 03, 2006

CNO Adm. Mike Mullen

speaks during Victory of

Midway Commemoration

USN Photo

USS Midway

June 03, 2006

CNO Adm. Mike Mullen

speaks during Victory of

Midway Commemoration

USN Photo

USS Midway

September 07, 2006

CPO Day

USN Photo

USS Midway

September 30, 2006

USN Photo

USS Midway

November 08, 2006

Third annual

Naturalization Ceremony

USN Photo

USS Midway

December 11, 2006

USN Photo

USS Midway

May 02, 2007

Battle of Midway survivors

at the Victory at Midway

Commemoration

USN Photo

USS Midway

May 03, 2007

USN Photo

USS Midway

September 13, 2007

4th Annual CPO Day

USN Photo

USS Midway

November 2007

T. E. Prince Photo

USS Midway

November 2007

T. E. Prince Photo

USS Midway

November 2007

T. E. Prince Photo

USS Midway

SDACM Postcard

From my collection

USS Midway

SDACM Postcard

From my collection

USS Midway

SDACM Postcard

From my collection

USS Midway

Chris Bachman photo

enhanced by Bud Norris

USS Midway

Chris Bachman photo

enhanced by Bud Norris

 

 

 

 

April 2005

 

Kyle Milliken served aboard the USS Midway with VAW-115 from 1985 through 1988. He

currently lives & works in Mainland China.  Kyle was walking down the street in Shunde,

China & passed a mobile phone store. Something about a mobile phone advertisement

on the wall caught his eye & he turned back to see it again.

They had a large wall-sized banner & a smaller poster size advertisement & the subject

of the photos was none other than USS Midway! Kyle said it was kind of strange to see the

Midway on the wall of a mobile phone store in Mainland China but then again, since they

wanted the image of strength & power, they couldn’t have picked a better subject!

USS Midway

USS Midway

USS Midway

The original version of this photo can be seen on this site in the

 

USS Midway 1980's Miscellaneous Gallery

(scroll down to the bottom of the page)

 

 

 

 

USS Midway

Chip Ellis, a master custom designer for Fender guitars,

designed this custom guitar for his father, Capt. Ed Ellis,

corporate secretary of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation

 in Pensacola. The guitar was inspired by the USS Midway,

the place where their father-and-son connection first began.

 

 

June, 16, 2007


SON'S CUSTOM-MADE FENDER HONORS HIS DAD, USS MIDWAY


Special to the Pensacola News Journal

Father's Day gifts generally include ugly ties or dress shirts that will never see the light of day.

On the other end of the spectrum are the more priceless items that all fathers are proud of -

- such as the children's homemade macaroni picture frame that finds its way to the refrigerator door.

For Capt. Ed Ellis, corporate secretary of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation in Pensacola,

his child's homemade creation was a little more impressive -- a custom designed Fender guitar from son Chip,

now a master custom designer for Fender guitars.

The guitar was inspired by the USS Midway, the place where their father-and-son connection first began.

Ellis spent many years at sea aboard the USS Midway. From 1973-1975, he was aboard the ship off the coast of

Japan serving as a lieutenant commander. It was during this time that his son, Chip, came into the world on

Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day, at a U.S. Military Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. He was baptized in a chapel on the Midway.

This ship was the first home for the new Ellis family and was a memory that Ellis and his son would always share.

When Chip was about 12, he received an Ibanez guitar from his father for Christmas. Very quickly, he caught on to

guitar playing and began tinkering with the sound and the design of the frames, frets and strings. Little did his dad

know that he had given his son more than just an instrument -- he had provided him direction toward his calling.

Over the years, Chip has excelled in building some of the most impressive custom guitars ever seen. At Fender, he

focuses on specialty custom guitar design. His instruments have been played by such music legends as Credence

Clearwater Revival, U2, Aerosmith and Bruce Springsteen. His biggest customer among superstar artists is Eddie

Van Halen. Most recently, he created 300 replicas of Van Halen's famous guitar, Frankenstein. Each meticulously

designed axe will run about $25,000.

A few years ago, Chip began work on what originally was planned to be a Father's Day present. Thinking about

his father's days aboard the Midway, he visited the retired vessel in San Diego, took pictures, took note of the

details and set out to build a guitar in honor of his father and the Midway.

With the call numbers of the ship resting on the body of the Chip Ellis original and the color and design matching

that of the island structure of the Midway, the guitar is a tribute to his dad's years of service in the military as well

as his years of service as dad.

 

 

 

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