THE "MIGHTY O" IS GONE

[Django]

It is truely a humbling and saddening film to watch and I recommend everyone see it in it's entireity.

Is it on the internet somewhere to download?

[Shay]

[quote="Django]Is it on the internet somewhere to download?[/quote]

I haven't found it to download but it can be purchased on the one of the many websites that sell videos and books.

Shay
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[Jack Cook]

DISCOVERY OR THE HISTORY CHANNEL DID A HOUR LONG SHOW ON THIS USING THE PLAT TAPE AND INTERVIEWED THE SURVIVORS INCLUDING JOHN MCCLAIN. YOU MIGHT CHECK THEIR SITES FOR TAPES FOR SALE.

[RickH]

Really good sequential photos of the inking. Some were taken from the Navy H-3 that was in the air during the sinking.

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm

[RickH]

Really good sequential photos of the inking. Some were taken from the Navy H-3 that was in the air during the sinking.

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm

[B-29 Super Fort]

Really good sequential photos of the inking. Some were taken from the Navy H-3 that was in the air during the sinking.

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm

Very nice pics. What was the purpose of the motor launch on the flight that floated off?

[RickH]

My understanding is that the whaleboat on the flight deck carried the batteries and radio gear necessary to arm and fire the explosive charges that sunk her. It floated free as the ship sunk as planned.

[RickH]

Link to some of the first photos taken of the Oriskany since sinking.

http://myfwc.com/marine/ar/OriskanyPixUnderwater.htm

[Shay]

It is truely a humbling and saddening film to watch and I recommend everyone see it in it's entireity.

Is it on the internet somewhere to download?

I found a little something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUVZ5ARH2G0

Shay
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[Originalboxcar]

USS Forrestal is also going to be an art. reef. Sinking date not yet known.
FYI (from wiki)

As of 2006, all four ships have been struck from the Navy Vessel Register. Ex-Forrestal and ex-Independence are slated to be sunk as targets, while ex-Saratoga and ex-Ranger are on donation hold as potential museum ships.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the Forrestal with the Sara ni RI:

Newport RI:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1

Which CV is this in the Philly ship yard?:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1

Other CV's in the NRF at Bremerton:

Indy, Connie, and what is the CV on the far right?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1

regards,

t~

[Shay]

The ex-Uss Independence(CV-62) and the ex-USS Constellation (CV-64) are also slated to be sunk. I was surprise to learn that the Iwo-Jima class were all but gone:

USS Iwo-Jima(LPH-2) : sold for scrap Dec 1995, ship's island was preserved, and was on display at the Texas Air Museum, Rio Hondo, Texas (anybody got and pics?)

USS Okinawa (LPH–3): sunk as a target in a COMSUBPAC ship sinking exercise (SINKEX) on 6 June 2002.

USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7): used as a target and sunk in March, 2005.(you can still see her on Google Earth in the James River Ghost fleet.

USS Guam (LPH-9): was disposed of as a target off the US east coast on October 16, 2001.

USS Tripoli (LPH-10): decommissioned in 1995 and as of 2004 was on loan to the Army, but has remained laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

USS New Orleans (LPH-11): decommissioned and placed in reserve in San Diego, California, in October of 1997.( Ibelieve has been sunk or is slated to be sunk)(still visible on GE)

USS Inchon (LPH/MCS-12): stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 24 May 2004 and sunk, on 5 December 2004.(still visible on GE)

In my opinion, it's a better fate to be sunk than to be stipped and carved up down to your keel.

Shay
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[Rogue]

Its really sad that the USS Cabot was not saved.
Last of the straight deck carriers.
I remember her in New Orleans for years.

It was really awesome at 4am on a foggy N.O. morn, after a night in the Quarter and some Cafe' du Monde.

A replica of the island is in Pensacola, while the real one was cut up in Brownsville.

[Shay]

Looks pretty real to me. Although it not in Pensacola it's in Rio Hondo, TX. Situated next to the Island of the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) at the Texas Air Museum.

More of the tower while still attached can be seen here:

http://www.usscabot.com/photogallery/brownsville99/brownsville_gallery.htm


Shay
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[RareBear]

The CV in the Philiadelphia navy yard is the USS America (CV-66).

Using Microsoft's Virtual Earth you can clearly see the number 66 on the island.

Trying to use Virtual Earth to check out the two carriers in Newport proved frustrating. In the high-altitude, low-resolution views, you can see them at the pier, but when it changes to the low-altitude, higher resolution views, the ships are not there. I guess these photos were taken prior to the ships being moored at that pier.

Even the views of the Philadelphia Navy Yard used photos taken on two dates because there were several places where the seam between 2 photos crossed a ship, and the ship was in one photo but not in the other.

Walt

[m50a1ontos]

Well that overhead of the America must be pretty old...she was sunk as a target last year I think. Oriskany was sunk this year as a reef project. I guess the mighty FID is next....my first ship