USS Franklin D. Roosevelt

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt

CVB-42/CVA-42/CV-42 ~ 27 Oct. 1945 – 01 Oct. 1977

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1956-1969 The Middle Years

Assorted pictures from 1957-69

[Image Source – US Navy, except where indicated]

The Crew’s Photos pages are listed in the main menu (above) by year and title or contributor’s name.

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Here is a pic of the clothes washer we built in the Machine Shop. We built a crank shaft and attached it to the bulkhead behind the lathe. Attached drive end to back spindle of lathe. Had a trash can fitted with a hose to pump out water by using the lathe’s coolant pump. We filled it with a hose from a water spigot. It worked great but you had to be careful that you set lathe on a low RPM. High speed would have clothes all over shop and did some wild destruction. Date of pic was around 1969.
FDR Washer
[Image & Story Source – Robert Wendling]
1966 – RF-8 Crusader of VFP-62 Det 42 damaged wing by North Vietnamese 5″ shell. It is a testament to the ruggedness of the RF-8 Crusader and skill of the pilot (Norm Green).
VFP-62_903 vietnam_rf8
[Image Source – Jim Macino ] [Image Source – A.W.Scarborough ]