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Photo's of VW-1's Crew 4 circa 1968, Page 1.
All photo's courtesy of Lt. Richard Gilmore, 68-70 TE-4.. unless noted otherwise
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- 1st. Picture from the left: VW-1, TE-4 painting on silk.
Photo courtesy of Craig Holt '67 -'68 TE-4, 5.
2nd. Picture from the left: VW-1, TE-4 "City of Naminoue" painting on silk.
Photo courtesy of Scott Bates dependent of Lcdr Robert M. Bates VW-1 60-62:
66-68 TE-4.
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1st. Picture from the left: TE-4 and TE-7 on VW-1 flight line at NAS Agana Guam..
2nd. Picture from the left: Connie shadow over farmland in Taiwan.
3rd. Picture from the left: Connie arriving at Sangley Pt. P.I. After completing a mission
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- 1st. Picture from the left: Skip Maryan and Ken Thrasher waiting at NEX Sangley Point.
2nd. Picture from the left: Crossman, Skip Maryan, ?, Pat Laird, Ken Thrasher, wait on tarmac until TE-4 is
readied for flight.
3rd. Picture from the left: Fly over of hooches at Rosemary point RVN
4th. Picture from the left: TE-4 landing at Chu Lai
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- Pictured on the left: TE-4 Crew members at Chu Lai: Left to right: ?, Ken Thrasher, Cliff Hathaway, Max
Rumelhart, Skip Maryan, Ed Nafus.
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- These four pictures show the damage to TE-2 while flying into Typhoon Judy on 25 October 1968.
1st. & 2nd Picture from the left: Photo's provided by LT. Skip Richardson VW-1 '68-'70 TE-3.
3rd. Picture from the left: Crew 4 was flying TE-2 in to Typhoon Judy on 25 October 1968 when we lost a wing tip during penetration.
4th. Picture from the left: Photo and comment courtesy Bill Dutra. 67-68 TE-4 Flight Engineer
As I recall, the pilot was Lt. Thompson. I was on the panel. We had made our low level penetration and we were
going up inside the eye to go out. All of a sudden there was this terrible jolt and the tip tank and part of
the wing was gone. The AC called for max power. I shoved every-thing to the wall and started cross feeding fuel
out of the other tip tank because it was still full.
After we figured out what happened and we made the decision we were airworthy, we headed for Guam. We were very
lucky because a few more inches and the aileron would have been damaged. As it was the aft corner was bent up
about ½ inch. I found this old picture I took after we got back that shows a little more of the damage.
LeRoy White should be able to fill you in on more details as he was the 1st engineer on that flight. He was
right behind me after the jolt.
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- 1st. Picture from the left: TE-2 on test flight at NAS Agana. TE-2 lost the starboard tip tank and several
feet of the wing during a storm penetration. The aircraft was balanced out by removing the tip tank and a
portion of the wing on the port side. The aircraft was flown from Guam to Japan where full repairs were
made.
Photo courtesy LeRoy White 67-70 TE-4. Flight Engineer.
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