1965 USS Bon Homme Richard Skyraider mission ...

[Mark Allen M]

Interesting USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) LIFE series focussing on a particular Skyraider mission somewhere in SEA during the Vietnam War. A brother in Law was involved in a few of these missions while serving over there. (Not this particular group though) These photos certainly show the stresses of combat missions back then IMO.







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[brucev]

Fantastic Mark!

[Larry Kraus]

Thanks for posting these pictures,Mark. I found most of them searching the Google Life site last year and also found the issue of Life Magazine that ran the related article,although they only ran a few of the posted pictures. Still, it's sometimes interesting to see what the article had to say. I'm afraid to post the pages as such due to copyright laws,but here's a link to the issue online.

http://books.google.com/books?id=PlMEAA ... &q&f=false

The main article starts on Page 16, although there is an Editor's Note concerning it on the Table of Contents page. The viewer works best for the double page spreads if you click on the double page icon at the upper left near the magnifying glass symbols. I believe that this link is already set for double page, so you will just need to use the Next Page arrow at the upper right to turn the double pages.

If the print is too fuzzy to read, you can switch to single pages by clicking the icon immediately to the right of the magnifying glasses at the upper left. That will help.

Last edited by Larry Kraus on Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Snake45]

Seems to have been photographed from an EA-1F. I wonder if the EA-1F actually dropped bombs with the others, or was just along to take pics? If it dropped bombs, this might be the only case of a USN "fat face" delivering ordnance in Vietnam. Very interesting!

[PbyCat-Guy]

Is that Obama in the 3rd pic from the top with the bomb?

[Snake45]

Is that Obama in the 3rd pic from the top with the bomb?

I thought the same thing when I first saw these pics on another site several months ago.

[Mark Allen M]

Thanks Larry. Good stuff. BTW how's the fire fighting going? You guys 'out of the woods' yet? Hope all is going as best it can I suppose. Stopped by Madras last week. Nice visit.

M

[Larry Kraus]

Fire Season appears to be over for the year in Oregon and I took Tanker 62 back to Madras on September 25th with about 82 revenue hours for our 75 day Medford contract. It's possible for Cal Fire to request one of the DC-7s, but it would probably be T66.

If nothing develops in the next few weeks, I plan to head for my winter hidey hole in Florida before Redmond turns into a Winter Wonderland. I can handle a bit of cold weather, but it got down to -27 degrees F for a while last year around here. I'm not too enthusiastic about that sort of thing anymore.