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July ~ December 2005 Updates
December 31, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added three new photos. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added 42 new photos in the following galleries: Aircraft On-Load (November 15, 2005) : 10 photos - new gallery showing the loading of the SBD-1 Dauntless for temporary display.Aircraft On-Load (December 27, 2005) : 09 photos - new gallery showing the loading of the F9F-5 Panther & F-8K Crusader. : 03 new photos showing the U. S. Naval Academy & Colorado State University cheerleader squads. : 06 photos (new gallery).Naturalization Ceremony (November 11, 2005) : 14 photos (new gallery)., VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
December 06, 2005 , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
November 13, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added two new patches.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added an official USS Midway, certificate seal.- added two new patches in the USS Midway gallery. - rescanned all five of my Indy shoulder rockers & they are now shown together. , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
November 02, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added two new photos, one of which is courtesy of Buzz Nau. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway section - added two new screenshots. - added two new photos, courtesy of Buzz Nau. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
October 22, 2005
, VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
October 18, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added one new CIC patch. I was surprised when I received this one..... at nine inches, it's huge & is now the biggest patch in my collection. I also rescanned all six of my Midway shoulder rockers & they are now shown together.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added a new USS Midway challenge coin.- added one new patch in the USS Midway gallery.
October 15, 2005
Memorabilia - Ceremonies & Events in the USS Midway section - added a program for "Kourtroom Kapers" - a musical review by Midway's crew, which was held on May 29, 1946, while in the North River, New York City.
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added one new patch.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. - added 26 new photos. - added one new patch in the USS Midway gallery. & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
October 10, 2005 - added memorabilia from the USS Maine, SSBN-741 commissioning ceremony, courtesy of Chet Morris. Also added a USS Maine patch from my collection. - added eight new zaps, courtesy of Chet Morris. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
October 09, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added two new patches. The USS Midway ship patch was given to me by Chet Morris..... Thanks Chet!
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added a larger & better quality scan of a USS Midway, CVB-41 blueprint.- added a new challenge coin. - added a new challenge coin in the Memorabilia gallery. - added two new patches in the USS Midway gallery & two new patches in the Miscellaneous U.S. Military gallery.
October 08, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added one new patch.
Memorabilia - Magazine & Newspaper Articles in the USS Midway section - added two new articles.in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added two new photos. - added one new patch in the USS Midway gallery. & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
October 03, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added two new patches.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added a second USS Midway Engineers plaque.- added six new patches in the following galleries: : 01 patch. : 01 patch. : 01 patch. : 01 patch. : 02 patches.
October 02, 2005 in the USS Midway section - added four new screenshots. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added 412 new photos in the following galleries: : 01 new photo. Aircraft On-Load (July 19, 2005) : 68 photos (new gallery showing the loading of the Hornet, Viggie & new Skyhawk). : 111 photos (new gallery). : 06 photos (new gallery). : 17 photos (new gallery). : 18 photos (new gallery). : 60 photos (new gallery). : 10 new photos. : 72 photos (new gallery). : 10 photos (new gallery). : 10 photos (new gallery). : 29 photos (new gallery).& LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
October 01, 2005 - added 64 new photos in the following galleries: : 01 new photo. : 11 photos (new gallery). : 16 photos (new gallery). : 12 new photos. : 16 new photos. : 06 photos (new gallery). : 02 new photos.
& LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 28, 2005
Memorabilia - Ship Newspapers, Newsletters & Messages in the USS Midway section - added two 1955 issues of The Midway Current & two miscellaneous instructions/notices.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added two new photos. & VAQ-136 guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 26, 2005
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added two new brass plaques: USS Midway Supply & CTF 77. I also updated the photo for the USS Midway Engineers plaque with a better quality version.
September 24, 2005 - added 20 new photos in the AH-1 Cobra Nose Section gallery. - added 54 new photos in the B-17G "Yankee Lady" gallery. - added 25 new photos in the B-25J "Miss Mitchell" gallery. - added 12 new photos. - added 81 photos & one movie in a new F4U-4 Corsair gallery & 50 photos & one movie in a new F2G-1 Corsair gallery. - added six new photos. - added ten new photos. - added ten new photos. - added 21 new photos. - added 11 new photos in the Air Shows gallery. - added 28 new photos in the P-51D "Little Horse" gallery. - added 33 new photos. - added eight new photos.
- added 45 new photos. - added two new photos of myself taken on July 23rd at the Wings of the North 2005 Air Expo in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
September 23, 2005
Memorabilia - Magazine & Newspaper Articles in the USS Midway section - added a page from the August 11, 1952 issue of Time magazine, featuring a Grumman advertisement & the 39,000th landing aboard Midway.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added one new item.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added five new photos. , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 18, 2005
September 13, 2005
Memorabilia - Ceremonies & Events in the USS Midway section - added four items from the 1992 final decommissioning ceremony, courtesy of Bud Wilborn.
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added one new patch from the 1955 World Cruise, courtesy of Bud Wilborn.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added one new item, courtesy of Bud Wilborn.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added four new photos, courtesy of Bud Wilborn. - added two new photos, courtesy of Chet Morris. - added one new photo, courtesy of Chet Morris. - added one new patch in the USS Midway gallery. - added two new zaps, courtesy of Chet Morris.
September 12, 2005 - added one new patch. Warning! This is a very unofficial patch! - added one new patch in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets gallery & three new patches in the U.S. Military Bases gallery. - added nine new zaps, two of which are courtesy of Chet Morris. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
September 11, 2005 - New item: added a Sailors have more fun! bumper sticker. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added five new photos.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added three new photos.- added one new photo. - added one new photo. - added one new photo. - added one new photo. - added two new photos. & VAQ-136 guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 07, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added a new squadron patch in the VRC-50 gallery. - added one new patch in the Air Wing Five gallery. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
September 05, 2005 - added 39 new photos. - added 23 new photos. - added 18 new photos in the F-4D Phantom II gallery & 23 new photos in the RF-4C Phantom II gallery. - added three new photos. - added five new photos. - added four new photos in the P-51D "MN ANG" gallery. - added three new photos. & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 04, 2005 - New items: added twelve USS Midway Magnets featuring photos from the new 2006 USS Midway Calendar.
Minnesota Air National Guard Museum 2005 Gallery - added 142 new photos I took yesterday during the museum's Open Cockpit Day.- added eight new photos of me taken yesterday at the Minnesota ANG Museum's Open Cockpit Day. These photos were taken by Liza Eckardt, a moderator & contributing photographer at Fence Check.com. , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
September 01, 2005 - New item: USS Midway Postage Stamps! The first ever postage stamps featuring USS Midway are now available in several designs & denominations! Also, a reminder that the new 2006 USS Midway Wall Calendars are now available.
August 31, 2005
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added a Midway pocket knife.- added one new NAWS Point Mugu zap. & VAQ-136 guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
August 30, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo of a Soviet Il-38 May flying over Midway in the 1980's.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added one new photo.
August 29, 2005
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added two updated scans of the CVB-41 playing cards.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo of something which never happened - This is a composite photo of all three Midway Class ships steaming in formation, created & contributed by Charlie Walker of Walker Video Productions. - added one new Royal Navy Sea Harrier zap.
August 24, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added two new photos, one of which is autographed by the South Vietnamese Major who landed his Cessna O-1 Bird Dog aboard Midway during the evacuation of Saigon. - added one new TWU Hawk zap sticker in the Memorabilia gallery. - added three new RAF zaps. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
August 23, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets section - updated the current squadron status & location.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added two new photos.
August 22, 2005
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added three new items.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added two new photos.& VAQ-136 guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
August 19, 2005 - added one new patch.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added one new photo.- added one new patch in the EA-6B Prowler gallery.
August 18, 2005
Memorabilia - Patch Collection in the USS Midway section - added three new Centurion patches & one Night Centurion patch.- added one more photo to this new gallery, courtesy of Chet Morris. - added four new patches in the USS Midway gallery.
August 17, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added two new photos, courtesy of Kurt Elder. - added three new photos in the Miscellaneous U. S. Aircraft gallery & four new photos in the Miscellaneous Japanese Aircraft gallery, all courtesy of Kurt Elder. If anyone has more photos of Atsugi's gate guard aircraft, I would like to show them in this gallery. Please contact me if you can help!
- added 12 new photos, courtesy of Kurt Elder.
August 16, 2005
Air-to-Air Victories in Vietnam in the USS Midway section - added a news story & one photo about Jim Wise making the final MiG kill of the Vietnam War.- added one new patch. in the EA-6B Prowler section - added a USMC Prowler Plane Captain patch. - added one new patch in the EA-6B Prowler gallery. & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
August 11, 2005 - Added a 1995 air show patch in the Memorabilia gallery. If anyone has photos of Misawa's gate guard aircraft, I would like to show them in this gallery. Please contact me if you can help! - added one new patch in the U.S. Military Bases gallery.
August 09, 2005
Memorabilia - Magazine & Newspaper Articles in the USS Midway section - added an article from a 1972 edition of Warship International.in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added five new photos. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added three new photos. - added one new patch. - added one new patch in the EA-6B Prowler gallery. - Added a new challenge coin in the Memorabilia gallery. Also reorganized this gallery & replaced all photos with larger & better quality versions. If anyone has photos of Misawa's gate guard aircraft, I would like to show them in this gallery. Please contact me if you can help! & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
August 07, 2005
This update is comprised mostly of reorganized galleries with larger & better quality photos. I am in the process of doing a lot of behind-the-scenes cosmetic changes on the site, which should result in many improvements. Besides new material to be added in the USS Midway & Air Show sections, I will also have the Misawa & MCAS El Toro galleries reorganized with better photos soon. - Reorganized this gallery & replaced all photos with larger & better quality versions. If anyone has photos of Atsugi's gate guard aircraft, I would like to show them in this gallery. Please contact me if you can help! - Reorganized this gallery & replaced all photos with larger & better quality versions. - added six new magazine articles, courtesy of Paul Martin. Also reorganized this gallery & replaced all photos with larger & better quality versions. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
August 06, 2005 - added a USS Midway Light Switch Cover. in the USS Midway section - added a new article about the SDACM's one millionth visitor. - added 54 new photos of a Cobra I discovered today at a park in Shakopee, Minnesota. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
August 03, 2005 - The new 2006 USS Midway Wall Calendars are now available! Also added USS Midway Logo Buttons & USS Midway Logo Magnets. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 30, 2005 in the USS Midway section - added three news photos in the Miscellaneous Photos gallery.
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added two new items.in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added one new photo from 1976 ~ 1977, courtesy of Rick Ryan.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 USN Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added five new photos.- added one new photo of USS Long Beach, taken by Chuck Cavanaugh & courtesy of Buzz Nau. - added one new photo of USS Turner Joy, taken by Chuck Cavanaugh & courtesy of Buzz Nau. - added a CO's invitation, courtesy of Chet Morris.
July 28, 2005 in the USS Midway section - added one new patch in the Memorabilia gallery. in the USS Midway section - added one new postcard. - added two new patches in the Memorabilia gallery. If anyone has photos of Atsugi's gate guard aircraft, I would like to show them in this gallery. Please contact me if you can help! - added one new NAF Atsugi patch in the U.S. Military Bases gallery & one new CVW-5 patch in the Air Wing Five gallery. , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
July 27, 2005
Special Announcement! ~ VAQ136.com is back!
I have brought back VAQ136.com & once again moved the entire VAQ-136 Gauntlets & EA-6B Prowler sections to their own site. Please visit:
(For those keeping track ~ This now makes three servers handling the load for all of my site contents.)
July 21, 2005 in the USS Midway section - added one new photo of the 1951 F7U-1 Cutlass CARQUALS & one new photo of the 1952 F7U-3 Cutlass CARQUALS. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added 13 photos in a new Ready Rooms 5 & 6 gallery. Also added three photos of the A-4F Skyhawk, F/A-18A Hornet & RA-5C Vigilante in a new July 19, 2005 Aircraft On-Load gallery.
VAQ-136 Spaces aboard USS Midway in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added five new photos of Ready Room Five, courtesy of Clint Griffin.- added 31 new photos, courtesy of Chet Morris & Russ Yeaton. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 19, 2005 in the USS Midway section - added 67 new screenshots showing today's loading of the newly restored A-4F Skyhawk, F/A-18A Hornet & RA-5C Vigilante. (The A-4F Skyhawk on-load & A-4C Skyhawk off-load screenshots are courtesy of Buzz Nau. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 17, 2005 - added 36 new photos. - added 72 new photos.
B-17G Flying Fortress "Nine-O-Nine" - added 64 new photos I took yesterday at the Anoka County Airport in Blaine, MN.
- added 11 new photos in the F-11 Tiger gallery, courtesy of Buzz Nau. Also added one new photo & a 2005 season patch in the F/A-18 Hornet gallery, courtesy of Liza Eckardt. - added 11 new photos. - added 31 new photos I took at the MN ANG Museum this month. Also added ten photos by Joshua Nyhus, who has an excellent photography web site at NyhusPhotography.com. - added 93 new photos. - added five new photos. - added 39 new photos. - added 20 new photos in the P-51D "MN ANG" gallery. - added ten new photos. - added 11 new photos. - added 13 new photos. - added 52 new photos. - added two new photos of me taken yesterday by Liza Eckardt, a moderator & contributing photographer at Fence Check.com. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 16, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added 24 new photos to the following galleries: : 05 new photos. : 03 new photos. : 14 photos (new gallery). : 02 new photos.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Private Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added one new photo showing a Gauntlet Prowler over the Great Barrier Reef, courtesy of Victor Bozic & Lt. Stirton.- added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 13, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo.
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 Private Photos in the VAQ-136 Gauntlets Photo Gallery section - added one new photo of an All-J.O. Kadena Det., courtesy of Victor Bozic. Mr. Bozic's son, Lt. Stirton, currently flies with the squadron.- added five new photos of me taken by Liza Eckardt, a moderator & contributing photographer at Fence Check.com. In one photo, I am standing with Chuck Burin, a former Marine pilot. Chuck's brother, Jim Burin, just happened to be CAG of Air Wing Five during Operation Desert Storm. In three photos, I am inside a B-17G Flying Fortress. In the fifth photo, I am under the MN ANG Museum's RF-4C Phantom II setting up the shot I took of the A-12 Blackbird's reflection in the Phantom's nose camera glass. - added new entries, bringing it up to date.
July 12, 2005 in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - replaced one photo with a larger & better quality version. in the USS Midway Photo Gallery section - added one new photo. , VAQ-136 & LCHS guest books - added new entries, bringing them up to date.
July 11, 2005
- added one new OV-1 Mohawk patch in the Miscellaneous U.S. Military gallery & one new 74 Squadron (Tiger Squadron) patch in the British Military gallery. - added two new OV-1 Mohawk zaps.
July 07, 2005
- added one 35th TFW patch in the Memorabilia gallery. - added one new patch in the Miscellaneous U.S. Military gallery.
July 05, 2005
Memorabilia - Souvenirs & Miscellaneous in the USS Midway section - added two 1970 recommissioning pins from San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard.- added one new photo taken yesterday during Iwo Jima's visit to Portland, Maine. This photo was taken by Russ Yeaton & sent to me by Chet Morris.
July 03, 2005
July 02, 2005 - added two new patches in the Miscellaneous U.S. Military gallery. - added nine new photos of myself taken today at the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum in Minneapolis. Please check back soon for a lot of new photos of all the museum's aircraft.
July 01, 2005 - added two new patches in the Miscellaneous U.S. Military gallery. - added 83 new photos. - added 19 new photos. - added one 432nd TFW patch & one 35th TFW patch in the Memorabilia gallery. - added 13 new photos in the P-51K "Donna-mite" gallery. - added 04 new photos. - added 89 new photos.
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