My Father was probably steering during this video, BM1 Gary Severa!thanks for sharing

Anyone around that was attached to VA-192 on this cruise? My Dad was CO

Then Hoser cames along in his Viggi, heaps of fuel.plugs, takes 1000 pounds, and lights the burner and dumps as he overtakes the tanker... just showing off :D

Amazing video, although I wish there was a video of the va-36 roadrunners aboard the Saratoga. Their time on the Saratoga is sentimental to me

You guys were warriors and heroes!

Hi Tom, Thanks for the memory. I was fortunate to serve the Blue Tail Flies (VA 153) 1971 - 1973 as an AMH aboard CVA 34 Oriskany. We had just transitioned from A4's to A7's when I caught up with them at Lemoore. RIP all who were lost🇺🇸

Long live the Scooter brethren!!!!!

Nothing lasts 4ever!

I was attached to the Flies 66-69.

Great footage thanks for sharing this. A4'S Forever !

Good job Denny even if you didn't get enough F-8 shots and no RF-8 shots.

It has happened here with NZ Skyhawks ✈️🇳🇿

This was my third and final cruise. When the Oriskany finally returned to Alameda in mid-Drcrmber, 1969, I was out! AO2 VA-192. Go Naval Air!

Was aboard her from 64 to 68-3 med cruises

No shots of the E1-B, eyes of the fleet, I was with VAW-121 on the 68-69West PAC deployment.

It's a very nice ship From top too bottom. The sight from the top very beautiful. You don't miss anything ❤❤❤❤❤

Memories of a sad time. I was the VA-163 Air Intelligence Officer on the 65 Vietnam cruise. We were a close knit group of men and we took each loss very hard. Our squadron were some of the bravest men I ever knew. They knew each mission over North Vietnam could mean they might not return, but they went anyway. Thank you John Shore for the videos.

Awesome 👍✈️ the USS America has visited NZ and our RNZAF operated Skyhawks 🇳🇿

Knew both Lt Denny Sapp and Lt Eliot Tozer when assigned to VA-55 (1968-71); both extremely competent and talented naval aviators.

La aviación naval para mí es lo máximo, 👍👍👍

Awesome!... we operated A-4 Skyhawks with our RNZAF.. we also operated Seasprite helicopters with our RNZN .. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿

En su época fue majestuoso. 👍🛩️🛩️👍🛩️

Damn that Crusader comes in hot.

I was born and raised in Oriskany, NY, site of the Revolutionary War battle that the ship was named for.

I was aboard ship in 1970 at the same time sir obviously you sir were an officer,i was but a lowly sailor attached to va 55 i was woking as a mess duty station ,we sailed from Alameda station in early to mid 1970 until i was sent home in early 1971 just after new years day remember those times well ,thank you sir for your service !

Did my first cruise on the BonHommRichard CVA-31, G Div. WestPac cruise 1964

I was in VA-216 Black Diamond's on CVA-19 U.S.S. Hancock. We used A4s in Vietnam.

I was on the Bonnie Dick in 1962, In VF 191 I was a parachute rigger. Sorry that I didn’t know your dad or at least I didn’t remember him

That music is really annoying

No sound/ narration

I know one of the green shirts who was on USS Bonn Homme Richard, Joe Aragon. I want to surprise him with a scale model of an A-4 that was on the ship at the same time he was. Doing research, I found your video, and it's a treasure of info, and great viewing. Thanks Ens. Steve.

Staring straight down at the water hanging off the bow of a carrier while strapped into a fighter jet is an experience very few have ever had.

Thank you - very interesting !!

The way things are going it looks like they will be dusting off these old birds and get them back into the fight. Navy deep-sea diver with 10 hours back seat in A-4's out of Roosy Roads.

I built Revell model kits of Oriskany and Bon Homme Richard when I was 12. Thank you and others for their service. My family immigrated from Asia in the 1960’s. My parents were poor, but their kids (us) are millionaires. Greatest. Country. On. Earth.

Bon Homme Richard is French for Good Man Richard, named by John Paul Jones for his ship to honor Benjamin Franklin.

Thanks for archiving this. It’s also amazing how video and photo technology has evolved. Built in China though.

My Dad was on the Bonny Dick just a few years earlier though, 60-63, VF-191. Harold Beers is his name.

Get rid of music!

Wish it had sound. No music just jets.

Those shipboard barricades work very well. Remember as it were yesterday. Time flies faster than the jets do it seems. Thanks for posting these great memories.

Same thing happened to one of our VMA-214 Det N A4's on USS Hornet CVS-12 during our Far East cruise. I was #2 in the pattern following #1 (Captain Hale) just after the ship had passed through a rainstorm. Deck was slippery(wooden) and after he had trapped the ship rolled to port and he started sliding to the deck edge and went over the catwalk where he got hung up nose down. I watched this happen (to me, in slow motion) as Iwas on final for my trap. As I flew over from my wave off, I glanced down and saw he was still in the cockpit. I was bingo'd over to the Midway which was operating with us at that time. I learned after that he had been pulled out ok. After a short while I was recovered back on the Hornet uneventually except for a brief instant where I contemplated ejecting from the steam cat on the Midway. Hornet had a hydraulic catapult whereas the Midway had a steam cap-a much softer shot than a hydraulic cat. Halfway down the cat track I was reaching for the ejection handle as I felt i had a cold cat launch. I glanced at my airspeed indicator and saw that the airspeed was accelerating normally so I held off ejecting until that cat shot was complete and I had flying speed. Changed my skivvies after my trap back aboard the Hornet. Just another day of Naval aviation....

Loved it, I probably was one of the guys in blue shirts running around on the flight deck.❤

I can say the USS Shangri la was a good ship to serve on. I was fortunate to serve on her for 11 months. Went to Bremerton, Wash. in drydock wow what a site it is to see an aircraft carrier with no water under her. I also rode her around the horn of South America. We stopped in Peru, Chile, and Brazil before we ended up in Mayport, Florida. On April 9th when we were going around the horn the waves were 30 to 40 feet high we had no trouble.

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Marine pilots are the best for close air support. Thanks for saving my ass in 1968 and 1969.

My mother heplped build this ship in Norfolk and she and my father were at its launch when Mrs Doolittle Christened her

My grandfather was in the navy for 18 years and did two tours in Vietnam, on the intrepid. He was in crash and rescue and was also a Chief petty officer. I salute all of the men in and out of service.

Cool jam.