Snow On The Oriskany

[Robbie Stuart]

US NAVY PHOTO Photographer's Name: R. Grande, USN

USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off Korea, on 10 February 1953. On the right side are three Vought F4U-5N Corsair fighters of composite squadron VC-3 Det.G Blue Nemesis. On the left side sits a Douglas AD-3W Skyraider of VC-11 Det.G.
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Robbie

[RMAllnutt]

WOW.... gorgeous shot! Thanks very much for posting... any more to share?

Cheers,
Richard

[Robbie Stuart]

WOW.... gorgeous shot! Thanks very much for posting... any more to share?

Cheers,
Richard

Yea man. Standby for more shots from Korea.

[wendovertom]

Looks really slippery to me!

[Holedigger]

I have a pic in Smithsonian Air and Space, July, 2000, that was taken probably 5 minutes before that shot, just as they were starting to clear the deck. It credited it as being on the USS Valley Forge, early 1951. Looks bloody cold!

AHAH! found a link with more pics
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... ws-2f3.htm

[Robbie Stuart]

I have a pic in Smithsonian Air and Space, July, 2000, that was taken probably 5 minutes before that shot, just as they were starting to clear the deck. It credited it as being on the USS Valley Forge, early 1951. Looks bloody cold!

AHAH! found a link with more pics
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... ws-2f3.htm

If I am not mistaken, Oriskany & Valley Forge were both part of Task Force 77 in 1953. That would have been the same snow storm. I looked at both picks, the decks are different, but isn't that NR marked Corsair on the V.F. an Oriskany aircraft??? I have just begin to study & collect images from the Korean War, so I am not totaly up to speed on its history.
Robbie

[Holedigger]

Looks to be NP on the tail on BOTH pics. I don't know whose that is and a quick look came up dry, have to dig some more.

[Robbie Stuart]

One more of the "Mighty O" with snow.

US NAVY PHOTO Photographer's Name: AFAN E. C. Weber, USN

Man that looks cold!

[Holedigger]

Very COOL pics! Perhaps that other NP bird just got lost and ended up on the VF. You know how those Navy flyers are! Well, no snow on the "Mighty O"s decks now. Hope the scuba folks are enjoying her, better than being scrapped and turned into razor blades I guess.

[Old SAR pilot]

According to the site below, tail code NP belonged to VC-3:
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/koreaob.htm

And these sites confirm that it's the Oriskany:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _1953.jpeg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _1953.jpeg

..And I'd be a bit leery of Air & Space's IDs.....caught them WAY off base a number of times!

[sdennison]

US NAVY PHOTO Photographer's Name: R. Grande, USN

USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off Korea, on 10 February 1953. On the right side are three Vought F4U-5N Corsair fighters of composite squadron VC-3 Det.G Blue Nemesis. On the left side sits a Douglas AD-3W Skyraider of VC-11 Det.G.
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Robbie

Ain't no king crab fishermen here! God love those guys.

[Holedigger]

That would ALSO be the US NAVY calling it that. It does look like a slightly different deck set up, Soooooo, perhaps AC just visiting that deck? They were serving in the same area at the same time.

[JT]

Thanks Robbie!

My Dad was aboard when those were taken! He said it was COLD!

JT

[Dan K]

One more of the "Mighty O" with snow.

US NAVY PHOTO Photographer's Name: AFAN E. C. Weber, USN

Man that looks cold!

You wild-eyed southern boys crack me up.

Can't be cold if it's snowing. COLD only happens when skies are clear. Looks pretty balmy actually.


Dan (from the soft underbelly of southern Minnesota)

[Django]

Great shots. I am a sucker for shots with snow.