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Photos courtesy of Don Lanoue VW-1 '56-'58 TE-3... Unless noted otherwise
Photo's of VW-1 deployed
or R and R. page 4
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- 1st picture from left: The flight engineer's name I don't recall. A man named Petit was a FE in our crew.
Our last crew chief was an AD1 by the name of Spatch. He was probably the finest PO I ran across in the
Navy.
2nd picture from left: Main gate NAS Atsugi Japan.
3rd picture from left: Don Lanoue at ACO#1.
4th picture from left: ACO#2 .
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- 1st picture from left: Lt(jg) Bob Jannsen relaxing on a trans-Pac at scope #4.
2nd picture from left: An on-board birthday celebration for Lt(jg) Gene Lang and a crew member whose name I
can't recall. .. could it be T.E. Taylor?
3rd picture from left: We flew over the USS Yorktown.
4th picture from left: The dress whites inspection was the only one we ever had in the squadron when I was at
Barber's Point or Agana. I did not participate as I was on off-going Communications Watch Officer. A great
incident of the inspection was the large group of officers marching as a group - all in step and one beat out
with the music.
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- 1st picture from left: At Naha Okinawa CICO Don Lanoue with VW-1's TE-10 in the background. Picture
provided by Don Lanoue VW-1 56-58 TE-8.
2nd picture from left: The plane commander is LCDR Ned Naffah. He was my PC for at least a year.
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- 1st picture from left: Looking forward from the ACO #3 and #5 position through the WV-2 CIC section, The
Plotting table and ACO #4 are on the right side, ACO #1 and #2 on the right. Seated left to right Lang, Lanoue
and Jenssen. A crewman is shown in the CICO's position at back of the photo.
Photo by Life Magazine Photographer June 1957.
Picture 2: WV-2 CIC section. Photo by Life Magazine Photographer June 1957. Picture provided by Don Lanoue VW-1
56-58 TE-8.
Picture 3: TE-3 with Mt. Fuji in background. Photo by Life Magazine Photographer June 1957. Picture provided by
Don Lanoue VW-1 56-58 TE-8.
4th picture from left: WV-2 Flight Crew 1 at NAS Atsugi April 1, 1956 Named Left to Right
Front: Cooper, Ackerman, Morgan, Albin, Jones, Zeitler, Bechler & Grove
Middle: Yancey, Mosser, Piscopek, Hanson, Smith, Wilson, Adams & Meyer
Back: Moorman, Brearly, Beltakis, Butler, Antonik, Lanoue, & Bley
Picture provided by Don Lanoue VW-1 56-58 TE-8.
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- 1st picture from left: WV-2 Flight Crew 1 at Cubi Pt. August 1957 with TE-3 Named Left to Right
Front: Miles, Howell, Taylor, Nunes, Abernathy, Dooley, Caddel, &Spatch
Middle: Nevins, Considine, Teeman, Lestikow, Clifford, Neff, West, Discuillo & Standih
Back: Peters, Kirshman, Young, Levistad, Naffah, Lanoue, Janssen, Lang, & Pettit
Picture provided by Don Lanoue VW-1 56-58 TE-8..
2nd picture from left: WV-2 Flight Crew 1 Named Left to Right (Officers only) October 1956 with TE-6 (Buno
135749?)
Bley, LaPasta, Morano, Sjolander, Leonard, Lanoue, Naffah & Anderson
Picture provided by Don Lanoue VW-1 56-58 TE-8.
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- Pictures taken on my R&R to Japan.
Photos courtesy of Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr. CO's Yeoman 1969
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