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Whale Photos pg. 3


Photographs on this page were contributed by Frank Cogdell, BN, VAH-4, 62-64

fcogdell@erols.com

The B&W photos are from USN archives and the color photos are from Frank's personal collections of slides.


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bomb drop First VAH-4 Det. to bomb.
Location is 10 miles south of Pleiku.
24 May 1965, VAH-4 Det Golf 4/65-12/65
USS Oriskany (CVA-34)(CVW-16)

According to logs the BN was LTJG Jerry Adams and he says the bomb was a 1000 pounder.

mekong "Over the Mekong river"

VAH-4 Det Golf 4/65-12/65

USS Oriskany (CVA-34)(CVW-16)

cubi "Flight line"

NAS Cubi Point, Phillipines

VAH-4 Det Echo (CVA-31) &

Det Golf (CVA-34) Feb. 64

Nha Trang "Over Nha Trang, South Vietnam"

VAH-4 Det Echo

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)

launch Departing USS Bon Homme Richard

(CVA-31) for Hawaii at the end of a

westpac cruise. 4 Feb. 1963

race 21 May 1961

Det Lana

Bendix Trophy race attempt

recovery "Coming aboard"
group Det Golf & Det Echo VAH-4

Cubi Pt. flight line

(I think that is Frank, front row, fourth

from the right.)

flyover Fly over at Whidbey Island NAS
flight line NAS Cubi Point, Phillipines
cubi point Feb, 1964 Nas Cubi
trapped Arriving on board USS Bon Homme

Richard (CVA-31)

the chase The chase for fuel over Nas Whidbey
cat shot Approaching the cat aboard USS

Oriskany (CVA-34) 1964

bow shot Bow cat launch off the Bonnie Dick

(CVA-31) 1963

14 launch VAH-4 Det Golf 1964
14 launch VAH-4 Det Echo 62-63

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)

*note the wooden deck

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