What a wealth of information! Thank you so much.
My uncle’s name was Donald Clark; I think his middle initial was B. He was one of the mess men.
I’ll start researching the references you provided. If I can find something of interest I’ll let you know.
Of course anything you could find on my uncle would be of interest to me. He was a bit wild and had been shot in a street fight in India. The English patched him up and put him aboard the William F. Cody for his last voyage.
FYI: I also had some time at sea. As a Marine Aviator I spent several weeks aboard the Princeton CV/CVA/CVS-37, LPH-5, a straight deck WW II carrier. It was loaded with helicopters, some of which were bound for Vietnam; it was 1962 and the helicopter squadrons were to be the first Marines to arrive in SVN. I was attached to one of the squadrons as a fixed wing pilot flying a light observation aircraft (OE-1). We could come aboard at such a slow speed that no arresting wire was necessary; probably the last fixed wing aircraft to land aboard a straight deck carrier. Just a year before, as a cadet, I had completed my carrier qualifications by “hooking up” on an angled deck carrier, the Antietam CV/CVA/CVS -36.
Phil Frey
Bigfork, Montana
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