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Great shots,when was it?

Phil

Cool pics Paul ...thanks for sharing!!!

John

Wow! Thanks Paul. 'fraid I'm going to have to save some of these to my collection, sorry.

Fantastic shots and thanks for sharing them.

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Hey, great looking pictures!

-David

nice stuff! As per my norm I stole a couple for my screensaver

What carrier is that?

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

That is actually not an aircraft carrier per se, it is a helo carrier, LHD-3 "Kearsarge". I was stationed on its sister ship LHD-1 "Wasp". The only aircraft we had on board was 4 harriers, but we also had about 20 helo's (don't remember the exact number since I never really cared for aircraft who's wings spin in a circle). The only down side to serving on that ship was ....... we had about 2,000 Marines on board. (Sorry all you jarheads out there, I am a sailor through and through)

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ah HAH! I thought it looked funny! I should have known that-I was in yugoslavia just before the Kearsarge pulled Scott Ogrady out. The marines are called An MEU, right? trying to think which one that was. seems like 23 or 26 but it has been a while...and they weren't exactly at the forefront of my attention at the moment.
EDIT*corrected Kosovo to Yugoslavia-For some reason I was thinking he went down during the 1999 bombing of serbia instead of the 95 bombing of serbia...as opposed to any of the other bombings of serbia *

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

fabulous!!!!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Wow! You don't often see the Blue Angels flying formation with their Herk. Great shot!

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Who shot those?

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Someone on my website posted them to me. Not sure who shot them.

Just thought I would share.

Anyone else notice the shadow of what looks to be a Mig on the water in the first pic?

Fantastic pictures.

If I had to guess...they may be from the 2006 Jones Beach airshow...

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Look close, in the first picture just under the tail of the lead Stearman is the red Mig ( Randy Ball maybe ?).

I believe these shots were taken at the 2006 Jones Beach Air Show in NYC.

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