HAVE YOU CHECKED THE HOME PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFO?
I have managed to resurrect some of the Guest Books from the previous FDR Websites. There are some that are lost forever but this is the best there is at the moment. There is a lot of good stuff there.
Click on the year you want to view. Click on the left arrow at the top of your browser to return to this page.
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MISUSE OF INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN COULD BE AN INVASION OF PRIVACY!
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Please put your email address in your message so your shipmates can get back to you (if they can remember you).
There is software on board that makes it unreadable to the “bots” who collect that sort of stuff.
All entries must be approved before they will appear in the book. Any inappropriate entries, as well as those with invalid email addresses, will be deleted and will not appear. I check daily so don’t despair if your entry doesn’t appear immediately.
Due to a rash of automated spam messages we now use “captcha” authentication. Just enter the “captcha” code and then SUBMIT. Don’t worry about upper or lower case….either will work. If you have trouble reading it just click the little button to the right and it will “refresh”. Thanks!
Many shipmates have told me, via email, about having visited this site. Oddly many have not left entries here for their shipmates to see. THEY do wonder how you are and probably would love to hear from you. This is a great way get back in contact.
REMEMBER….THE ONLY WAY FOR YOUR SHIPMATES TO GET IN CONTACT WITH YOU IS HAVING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR MESSAGE
For YOUR protection – No home phone numbers or addresses please. Please save that for when you make email contact.
REMEMBER….IF YOU WANT TO BE CONTACTED MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE BODY OF YOUR MESSAGE
This site is fantastic. I have spoken to a shipmate and friend yesterday that I had no contact with for 40+ years. I also had contact with another shipmate who I hadn’t had contact with for 42 years. If anyone reading this was in OI division 1968-1972, please contact me at my e-mail address rcher54@ptd.net Maybe we can arrange a reunion of our own someday. Shipmate & friend, Dave hamilton
Made the last cruise aboard the Roosevelt, attached to VF-111 the Sundowners. I still have the picture of the young lady mooning the ship as she departed Mayport if anybody is interested, LOL. Also have pics of the damage done when we had the collision with that Liberian oil tanker (an added note, we spent a month in Naples getting repaired and I got to spend a week in Munich).
I SERVED ON THE ROOSEVELT FROM 1968-1970. I WAS ON THE 1970 GITMO AND MED. CRUISE. I AM GETTING OLDERRR AND HAVE A HARDER TIME REMEMBERING NOW. BUT DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY PICTURES OR MISHAPS THAT HAPPENED ON THE FLIGHT DECK BACK THEN… fishman17320032000@yahoo.com
Looking for Larry N. Melton from VF-ll. Would be about 70 years of age and believe to be from S.C. (Years on FDR aprox. 1969-71) Please contact me if anyone has information on Larry. VF-11 will have a re-union later this year. Thanks for any help.
WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM SHIPMATES FROM THE ROSIE 62-65 V1 DIV FLIGHT DECK EMAIL ME AT JUSMEPAT@YAHOO.COM
Looking for anyone from OE Div. 1971-1974
Barry Greenleaf:- Got your e-mail and replied but comes back as a wrong address. Please send another one directly to me at rcher54@ptd.net . Thanks, Dave
ROBERT WENDLING IF YOU ARE OUT THERE PLEASE CONTACT ME fishman17320032000@yahoo.com
Hello Shipmates,
I served on Rosie from 1974 until September 1977. I was transferred off a few days before the decommisioning ceremony in Portsmouth, because of a class convening date at AC&R School over in Norfolk. After 8 weeks of school, and 2 weeks leave, I reported to the USS Hunley in Charleston. When I checked in at the Post Office the PC gave me a yellow slip of paper saying I had a package waiting. When he checked the safe the package was gone, but there was a “return to Sender” notice. They had sent my decomissioning coin back to the now decommissioned Rosie. I never got the coin. Can anyone help? Thank you.
I was on the Roosevelt from 1964-1968 OP DIV I was a Pt-3 Any one can get ahold of me
At adels.smithrv@bresnan.net look forward to talking to some old ship mates..
LEFT COMMENTS EARLY DATE BUT DIDNT LEAVE E MAIL ADDRESS , WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM SHIPMATES FROM V1 DIV FROM 1962-1965 . JUSMEPAT@YAHOO.COM.. PLEASE EMAIL , THANKS, TOM
I was onboard the FDR from 1972 thru 1975 in V-3 Division. I invite all my shipmates to drop me a email. I would also like to know when there’s going to be another reunion. I missed the last one.
All Hands. My computer just threw a screw blade like the ship. Had to go into the yards for repair. Lost all e-mail addresses of 57/58 cruise.
Mikkelson does your dad have any photos of the TACAN replacement???? or flighdeck pictures???
SERVED ABOARD THE ROSIE FROM 61-65 V1 DIV FLIGHT DECK CAT SPOTTER LOOKING FOR CREW MEMBERS FROM THIS TIME . PLEASE CONTACT ME …TOM
I am Matt, son of Donald Mikkelson (Machinist Mate – A Div. ~1956-1958). Don (Dad) is still doing well. Any old buddies may contact me to reach him: mattmikk@comcast.net
Served in VA-172 from 1959-1961. Was really good times- have never figured out why I got out. Do have a ton of slides from those years that are available.
I was plane captain with VF-84 during 1st half of 70 Med cruise, and then went to jet shop. Give me a holler if I have jogged any memories. mlease47@hotmail.com
Served 1965 – 1967 Marine Detachment
Hi fellow shipmates. I was on board the Rosie from 73-77. I am looking for the 1976-77 cruise book, the final cruise. I never recieved my copy and would love to get my hands on one. I’ve tried to find the publisher but have had no luck to this date.
ANy help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Charlie
IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION OR PICTURES OF MISHAPS THAT HAPPENED ON THE FLIGHT DECK ON THE 1970 MED. CRUISE I WOULD LOVE TO PURCHASE THEM. CONTACT ME AT fishman17320032000@yahoo.com
I WOULD LOVE TO BUY A 1970 MED. CRUISE BOOK, OR ANY PICTURES THAT WERE TAKEN ON THE FLIGHT DECK ON THAT CRUISE. CONTACT ME AT fishman17320032000@yahoo.com
Served aboard 63-65 ….In weather office with LTCDR W. Williams, OA Division Officer, the day John F. Kennedy was shot. I think we were tied up in Mayport. Onboard when we steamed to Gitmo when Castro turned off the water to the base and we used our evaporators to supply drinking water until a tanker could be dispatched. It was HOT and humid, the base pool was closed, water hours onboard and on base. Only positive they extended the hours at the EM Club!! Also onboard when we broke a blade off a screw going through the Strait of Messina and had to limp back across the northern route of the Atlantic in 45′ seas (weather decks secured with the exception of the weather observers. Seas estimated at 45′ because they were breaking on the flight deck and washing back to the fantail) Myself and “Red” Wienstein won the banner design contest for the change-over with the Saratoga. The banner, depicting the Greek masks of humor and tragedy ,with the words “We’re Glad—-You’re Sad”, hung from the island structure just below the bridge. We had to go to Brooklyn because there wasn’t a dry dock available to hold us in Europe? I also remember a news crew filming a documentary (News 4?) which was aired late 65 or early 66. I remember watching it after I was seperated. (Aug 65) It was called “Flight Deck”. Some of the shots were taken from the balloon launching compartment that was suspended below the flight deck aft of the LSO platform. My ears are still ringing from being in that compartment with the roll-up door open when the 5″ mount right by the LSO platform fired. As I remember the film was very accurate, I wonder a copy is still in existence. Best of times/worst of times?! Like to hear from anyone who remembers being there…..ghendricks671@netzero.net
I made the 1965 Med cruise. I was attached to VFP 62 (the phote outfit) as a PR3.
My Dad, Theodore E. Gaess, Lt.JG, passed away on March 3, 2010. He was a Communications Offficer on the ship in 1945. He was proud to have been on the Maiden Voyage of the FDR, and left us with the programs from the Commissioning of the Ship and other memorabilia.
i served as a plane captain during the 74-75 med cruise with va 87 i was transferred to atlanta ga when the squadron transistioned to a7e aircraft from a7b. anybody who served with me during this time i would love to hear from you. i have either misplaced or lost all of my photos from this time period. i do remember us taking alot of photos of flight operations. thank you