HS-6 Memorabilia & Nostalgia
Airfields - were we trained over the years - many are closed now - start at Ellyson Field where many of us got our Wings of Gold and/or taught as Flight Instructors. You can work your way through the numerous fields in the Pensacola area: Barin, Bronson, Chevalier, Corry, Ellyson, Site 8, Saufley, etc. by clicking on Florida at the top of the page.
Al Fox & Bill Reed's Letters Home to Our Families
Aviation Officer Candidate School closes September 21, 2007 after 68 years!
Bar Cards - competition was fierce for our business so they handed out cards to help us remember where we had the most fun.
Baseball Hats - Rudy still has his original hat from the 1967-8 cruise
Blazer with HS-6 insignia - elegantly modeled recently for us by Bill Hobdy
Boat Officer's Handbook
Cards - we all know that ya gotta have cards for almost everything - so here are a few issued to us while in HS-6
Cigarette Lighter
Coffee Mug
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Crossing the Line - welcome to the Domain of King Neptune - Slimy Pollywogs enter at their own risk!!!
Dependants Day Cruise Booklet- USS Kearsarge - 1 April 1966 (PDF - 6MB)
Flight Gear
Funny Money - we spent the local currency in some places but in others we were issued Military Payment Certificates (MPC) also known as "funny money."
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| Philippine Peso | Japanese Yen? | MPC |
Fly-In - The day we all looked forward to since leaving San Diego: "No more days and a wake-up!"
Flight Jacket Patches and Name Tags
H-3 streaming video clip - you might not loved the music, but you gotta love the shots of the old warhorse in flight - some look like they might have been shot in the Persian Gulf - I'm not sure why somebody put these H-3 clips over Blue Oyster Cult's 70s song "Don't Fear the Reaper" (and then cut in segments from their Saturday Night Live performance with Christopher Walken in 2000 between the H-3 clips) - anyways, you can always turn the sound off and enjoy seeing what we all did when we "wore a younger man's clothes."
Hurricane Ivan hits Pensacola - September 2004
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90% of NAS Pensacola damaged |
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Pensacola Beach damaged |
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Junior Officer's PDA - well not exactly a PDA in today's sense of the word but it's how we kept track of what we needed to do to keep the "LooComs" happy and off our backs.
Naval Officers' Wives' Club "Sailing Directions" Booklet
Oldies but Goodies - links to streamed 60s music
Raunchy Redskin Card
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| The one and only original RR card | True classics stand the test of time - a RR card issued in 1975 by Cdr Kenneth Warmbir, CO of HS-6 |
SAR Det D Stamp - "Cdr Fox report to the Captain on the bridge IMMEDIATELY!"
Shellback Certificate
Snoopy Goes to WESTPAC - see all the cartoons that adorned our flights schedules between 1966 and 1969
Spearman Brewery and Al's Castle Bar on Barrancas Avenue - the brewery closed in 1964 and the date Al's closed is unknown
| Trader Jon's - |
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| The world famous bar/tavern/strip club or what-ever-you-want-to-call-it is now closed, but its memory lives on in all who ever entered the doors and were greeted by "TJ." | ||
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TJ's closes its doors for the last time - Pensacola News Journal - 5 November 2995 |
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Benediction by R.F. O'Connor was published in Naval Institute Proceedings in 1998 |
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Pensapedia history of Trader Jon's |
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A Marine pilot remembers Trader Jon's |
Training - before we got our Wings of Gold we had a lot to learn and accomplish
Training - Certificates & Materials - it didn't stop once we got those precious Wings
USO Show with Connie Francis visits the Kearsarge December 9, 1967
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| Snoopy was our Emcee that day | Connie Francis with some of the crew after the show | Snoopy waves good-bye as Connie flies away |
Water Transfer Decal
Updated: 04/04/09