JET CARRIER USS FORRESTAL SIXTH FLEET MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS 88714
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Dating to 1959, this program about the USS Forrestal shows the U.S. Navy's most modern aircraft carrier operating in peacetime, but on a war footing. Rear Admiral James Lloyd Griffin is seen discussing the tactical purposes of the carrier, and Captain Allen M. Shinn, who commanded the ship in 1958-59, is seen in command. The ship's complement of aircraft in this era includes the Skyhawk (including a nuclear-armed version shown releasing a dummy bomb at the 13 minute mark), Corsair II, Douglas Skywarrior, and more.
USS Forrestal (CV-59), formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59, was a supercarrier named after the first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned in 1955, she was the first completed supercarrier, and was the lead ship of her class. Unlike the successor Nimitz-class, the Forrestal and her class were conventionally powered. The other carriers of her class were the USS Saratoga, USS Ranger and USS Independence. She superseded the World War II Japanese carrier Shinano as the largest aircraft carrier ever built in terms of full load displacement and was the first to specifically support jet aircraft.
The ship was affectionately called "The FID", because James Forrestal was the first ever Secretary of Defense, FID standing for "First In Defense". This is also the slogan on the ship's insignia and patch. She was also informally known in the fleet as the "USS Zippo" and "Forest Fire" or "Firestal" because of a number of highly publicized fires on board, most notably a 1967 incident in which 134 sailors died and an additional 161 were injured.
Forrestal served for nearly four decades in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific. She was decommissioned in 1993, and made available as a museum. Attempts to save her were unsuccessful, however, and in February 2014 she was towed to Brownsville, Texas to be scrapped. Scrapping was completed in December 2015.
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I spent 2 years 7 mos. 13 days on Forrestal CVA 59. I was on her when we burned in Vietnam.
Salute and respect from NZ 🇳🇿
I spent 4 years 69 to 73 on Forrestal Navigator E6
Boy This Brings Back Memories. I Was An ABH3 Aboard The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) From 1980 - 1984. I've Seen Some Good & Bad Landings On That Flight Deck! ⚓
Saw this as a kid. ❤️
The audio quality of this interesting film is excellent, due to having an intelligent sound engineer who realised that human speech is NOT improved by having shrieking trumpets blasting away whilst the announcer (Walter Cronkite) and others were speaking. A pleasure to watch and listen to. Thanks for uploading.
+dav snow It also has something to do with our $100K telecine transfer machine that we made this transfer with, that digitally scans the original optical soundtrack and makes it sound better than anyone ever heard it "back in the day".
+PeriscopeFilm That's a fantastic investment in modern technology, for which I am very grateful. I have poor hearing, and really appreciate your attention to audio quality 😀
+dav snow Films made with our new machine (i.d.'d with numbers ending in "2" or "4") will have exceptional sound.
+PeriscopeFilm That is very good to know - thank you 😃
The singer Jim Morrison's dad was in command of this ship at one time...
Edgar Cook doors is over 👏👍✌
Proud to have flown on her deck. COD Crew 66-67 C1~A Trader 146052.😎🇺🇸
I was an A-6 Intruder plane captain in VA-42 NAS Oceana, Va. Beach, Virginia. After one of our pilot carrier qualifications when we were ready to leave the boat they ask for 2 volunteers to ride the C-1 Trader( COD ) off the catapult. I was very quick to volunteer. That cat shot off the carrier was a thrill. Time of service 10/18/71 to 8/15/75. ADJ-3 Dennis Hayes Tracy, Minnesota.
I used to watch these films every weekend on our local TV station. Since The Twentieth Century often covered aviation related topics, I was a big fan. We had old-time cartoons all morning Saturdays and this kind of stuff and western movies all afternoon Saturday and Sunday. Little or no college football and no pro football until later on in the late 1950s. All black and white and usually a fuzzy picture coming out of KC. The local station put out a good quality signal. Network programming often had lengthy periods of land line programming interruptions. Heard the "do not adjust your TV set" and "please stand by" instructions often. Those were the days as they were in the early-mid 1950s.
Excellent presentation- It reminded me of great days flying as a Naval Aviator a decade earlier. . We also had Landing Signal Officers with paddles prior to the mirror landing system Now, if necessary an auto landing system can handle landings
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
Good job Periscope! This must've been shot during the '58 Med Cruise. My uncle was with an A-3 squadron on the Sara. BTW; I think someone goofed when they said the rockets on the F4D were 5 inches. They look like 2.75 inch rockets to me. Otherwise the ordie's hand would not even come close to encircling it.
The Prudential logo quite brings back memories of a past time. And Walter Cronkite,well, I sure do remember his television comment February 27, 1968 on Vietnam and later the claimed comment of President Johnson and 'If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America." (Wiki extract). That was just as I heading to Great Lakes boot camp.
Mirror on the right, varsity!
Allen M. Shinn is my 2nd Cousin 4x Removed, had a lot of fun learning about him doing genealogy
Served on board 85-90. Was a pit snipe. Of course it being a carrier all of the focus was on flight operations. We were under the water line providing not only the steam to launch aircraft but to make sure that we were steaming through the water at speeds you couldn't imagine. Four main machinery pits, four screws. Hot as hades but we never complained, it was our job. An aircraft carrier dead in the water equals the worlds biggest target. And if you weren't a snipe, "your just along for a ride".
Thanks for your service to our nation.
So very true sir. Too often the accolades are given to the "gladiators" but never to support personnel (not glamorous). Who remembers Doolittle's plane captain or, the chain walkers on deck and, people like you, below? Without ALL the links in the chain working, the "warriors" would never get off the deck. KUDOS to you all sir!
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As an aside: we used to make fun of you all (in jest and awe), likening you to the Morlock cave dwellers in "The Time Machine"... working below deck , in the stagnant heat without, seeing the sun for weeks sometimes. (could always tell a "Snipe" by their pale skin and furtive looks when they were topside :D
@@jimd1944, I was in 2MMR, Boilers Tech from 71 through 74. And there was more than once, someone in the hanger bay helped me walk passed the elevators because the sunlight was just too bright on my eyes. Florescent lighting weeks at a time would wreck your eyes. Life back then mainly consisted of 6 on and 6 off, getting something to eat, and sleep for a few hours. (Cave dwellers . . . yeah, that's pretty accurate.) Appreciate the KUDOS.
@@unlistedmg Well sir, you deserved those KUDOS for all you gave. Thank you for being a part of the team.
@@jimd1944 and Dan Cujo, you are appreciated.Thank you, sir.
Furthermore, I think the Rear Admiral's comments have aged well. It's 2021 and the carrier is STILL the main part of the tip of the spear for our National Command Authority. :)
5:00 The long range briefing VHA-5 Savage Sons later redesignated RVAH-5 Douglas A-3 Skywarrior
my uncle was 2nd of command of the US KITTY HAWK
man those skywarriors were really huge
This has the best CAT OFFICER ever. Twinkle toes
Astronaut Jim Lovell in the front row if that briefing.
No not him.
Did anyone else notice that prounced swell of the flight deck when that first AC landed and taxied to the main flight deck. I admit that despite the times I was was aboard the CVEs and CVNs I never noted this until tonight.
Bridle launches, scary times they were ..wheeewhhhh, boys sure best be glad those does are over. Mostly, except for rare occasion
Awesome vid👍
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did carriers in those days have an ils/acls?
Not even an LSO on that first trap
Wrong again Russians !!!!
The good old Navy not like now too many cry babies