| Pat Winston
YN3 - 1968-69 Honolulu, Hawaii Unfortunately I
was only onboard for about 6-9
months as I remember coming from USS RECLAIMER
(ARS-42)
where I had gone from boot camp (12/66) directly to this small ship
with
a crew of about 60 men and spent most of my 2 years, 10 months and 3
days
of active on the RECLAIMER
which has disappeared from the Waipahu De-activitated fleet about 2-3
years
ago and we appear to have no web page, reunions and etc which I would
like
to see appear in the future. I was a kiddy cruiser going in before my
18th
birthday and coming out before my 21st birthday. I'm guessing I left around February 1969 to do TDY on the Fleet Tug, USS Hitchiti (Towed the target in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora). I will attend 2
WWII reunions this year, I love
doing that, one is my father's South Pacific Army/AirForce reunion
which
is back in Tennessee and the other is in my original hometown of
Spokane,
Wa. where the 475th P-38 fighter pilot squadron from the South pacific
is meeting Labor day week-end.
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The
WWII folks are getting very, very old and don't have many years left of
reunions. My father was the squadron's doctor and died in 1971 at 56
years
of age, just when I got out of the service so we never talked about his
experiences to any length-and now I am finding out about his
experiences
and comrades from WWII. 52 weekends in the year and we have a
conflict,
but I will make it happen. ps- someday I am
sure some crew would like to revisit
Honolulu and it would be fun helping you to organize one down the road.
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Attended Reunions 2003 - Boulder City, Nevada 2005 - San Francisco, California 2006 - Springfield, Illinois 2007 - Branson, Missouri Click for detail  |
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