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
Happy Veterans Day to all our Veterans and to all my shipmates who served with me on the USS FDR CVA 42.Served on board April 1957 till July 1960
I was attached to squadron VA-15 from July 1971 to March 1973. Made the 1972 Med cruise. If you were in the squadron you contact me at jmw1951@verizon.net
S-4 division from 1965-1967
H.Turminello please contact me re: 57/58 Med Cruise. I was the Plane Captain on #307.
VKRETSINGER@bak.rr.com
AM PROUD TO HAVE SERVED ABOARD THE ROSY FROM 1967 TO 1970 SERVED IN THE V2 DIVISION. cats AND GEAR. ABE2
I served on the Roosevelt from 1948 thru 1950. I am 81 years of age and to this day I remember the fine time I had aboard and on shore. I served as an Electrician working the flight deck,we had many night flying hours and loads of fun. I retired in 1979 with the rating of EMCM,
I served on the Rosie from late 1970-early1974. 3rd. Division deck ape. Any of you guys out there? charles9577@gmail.com
I did not have a video camera, but I did have a slide camera. I have many pictures of operations in the ship’s naval weather service office, flight operations, and liberties in foreign ports during the 1962-63 Med Cruise.
Mark Taylor, How are you after all these years? Send me an e-mail. I’d like to catch up and I have several contacts with the old gang I can give you. rcher54@ptd.net Glad your on this site and it was great serving with you on the “Rosie”.
RD3 in OI Division. Separated via COD from Athens in September 1972.
Hi to Dave Hamilton from ECM.
Boy, I sure hope you 72-73 guys come out in groups for the reunion in May! The reunion could sure use some of your “young blood”!
For Jim Pender:- You must have come aboard right after I left in February of 72. I Left as a 2nd class worked in ECM and then in CIC as a air watch section leader. I do have contact with some of the guys that would have still been there in 72. I do remember the cheap cigs and the always on coffee in the CIC coffee mess(little compartment on the left before entering CIC). If your interested in those contacts send me an e-mail rcher54@ptd.net. Rosie shipmate, Dave H.
I was on the Rosie during the 1972 and 1973 Med cruises assigned to OI div. In response to Larry and Pete, my friends can’t believe I paid $.85 cents a carton for Lucky Strikes back then ! I do think filter cigarettes were about a buck a carton… NO Taxes ! Working in CIC (radar), we were always aware of the “12 mile territorial limit of the United States” when we left Mayport, and would send someone down to the smoke shop as soon as it was open ! LOL
That’s about what we paid in 1958 as well. The tobacco companies sure had us hooked!
I was the PO in Charge of the Movie Booth on the Rosie from 1970 to 1972. Made 2 Med cruises. Great times. I told a buddy that I used to pay $1.00 for a carton of Winstons on the ship and he doesn’t believe me. If anyone remembers that, let me know. Thanks petepolitis@knology.net
I was on the FDR from early 1967 until Dec. of 1970. CS Division. Have recently discovered several small boxes of old slides that I’m in the process of converting to digital. Will send you some.
I am the son of Jack Howland who was XO 1955-57; he took FDR from the last of the Bremerton overhaul through Recommissioning in 1956 and through various evolutions in 1956-57 until c. September 1957; this period included the transit around Cape Horn; let me know if I can be helpful in any way; v/r, John Howland
I was on the last cruise with VA-215 reported to Mayport during midworkups was also TAD to Supply in Post Office and Laundry. That ship was a shaker, but it had some lines to it like a classic car. Times in Florida and The Med were great. I worked nights and was up for Messina Collision it was once in a lifetime stuff.
my Father William P. G’Danitz was a plank owner of the FDR. At some poin the ship was anchored in Gitmo Bay, Cuba. Dad made a bet with a Marine that he’d dive off the flight deck. he did and had to climb back up the anchor chain. For that he was given a Captain’s Mast! But he was let off with just a fine.
I was on the Rosie from September 1969 to July 1973. I served in the Operations Office
I am posting this for my father and will assist him in coorresponding with any fellow shipmates we may have the honor of connceting with.
“I served on the USS FDR from 1946 – 1950. Was on tours to Greece, Spain, Italy, Africa, the crest of the Arctic Circle. I am 84 years old”
I will go the posts with my father when he gets back in town as I see there are several who were on this ship during the time he was. He is very interested in reconnecting.
My father’s name is Robert Purington, he served on the F.D.R. in 1945 on her shakedown cruise to Rio, he’s 84 years old, anybody that remembers him please let me know I’m sure he’d love to hear from you,and go over the old stories. Thank you.
I am looking for anybody who knew my grandfather, Edwin E. Braddock, who served on the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1946. Sadly, my grandfather passed away in 1964 at age 36, when my mother was 10 years old, so I never got to know him.
Ship’s company in IM-3, W.C. 611 from VF-32 67, 68 Med cruise! Also driver for transportation dept. during liberty call. Love to hear from shipmates.
Left the “Rosie” to go to crypto school, ORDERED TO THE SHANGRI-LA, THE THE INDEPENDENCE, TRANSFERED TO THE RESERVE FLEET, MADE C.P.O. RETIRED OUT ON A MEDICAL WITH 16 AND WENT TO WORK IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FOR THE BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT–RETIRED AGAIN –NOW JUST TRAVEL AND PLAY ON HAM RADIO WB6WLD
ANY OF THE OLD COMM ET CREW ON YOUR CREW LIST ?