tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post949834363296883820..comments2023-06-17T06:59:05.555-05:00Comments on Target: Babies in Open.<br> Fire For Effect.: PlaneguardComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-53566653666211240652015-02-10T08:57:15.204-06:002015-02-10T08:57:15.204-06:00Re: " There were quite a few other collisions...Re: " There were quite a few other collisions between carriers and their escorts."<br /><br />Kennedy vs. Belknap?<br /><br />In that case, in the aftermath of the collision, the other escorts did good! From Wiki...<br /><br />"The guided missile destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts and destroyer USS Bordelon moved in on both sides of Belknap, their men directing fire hoses into the amidships area that the stricken ship’s crew could not reach. Claude V. Ricketts moved in and secured alongside Belknap’s port side, and evacuated the injured while fragments from exploding ammunition showered down upon her weather decks. The frigate USS Pharris closed in the carrier’s starboard side to provide fire-fighting assistance. Ammunition from Belknap’s three-inch ready storage locker, located amidships, cooked off, hurling fiery fragments into the air and splashing around the rescue boats. Undaunted, the rescuers pulled out the seriously wounded and delivered fire-fighting supplies to the sailors who refused to surrender their ship to the conflagration."Frank Van Hastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821687850881538546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-50090060205637770972015-02-07T21:54:21.412-06:002015-02-07T21:54:21.412-06:00Spent more than a few hours behind a bird farm, on...Spent more than a few hours behind a bird farm, on a real DD too. We were still plane guarding in the mid 70's.<br />About the "real DD", it was the Turner Joy DD-951 last gunship. All guns, no missiles.<br />While plane guarding I was on the whaleboat crew and we got to pick up the pieces of a A-4, a KA-6 and a F-4. That was two different incidents, I think the A-4 and the KA-6 bumped while refueling and the F-4's had one of its engines self-destruct.<br />In both incidents the helicopter's had the aviators out of the water before we were even able to drop the whaleboat. jon spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10886632644249920124noreply@blogger.com