Hang on to your lunches, boys!

[YankeeAirRat]

I had a close and personal friend earn this patch on the USS Midway CV-41 back in 1987/88 timeframe. Due to torpedo protection measures and some other things that made her extremely top heavy. So one day while trying to dodge a Nor'easter out of the Bearing Sea and typhoon coming out of the central pac, they hit some waves and the ship rolled 24 degrees to one side. The only US carrier to have done so.

[Big B]

ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

The only way i can make sense of it is:

1) the pic was accidentally printed backwards (someone reversed the neg)

2) there is some censorship of the island area

3) The Lunga Point is superimposed on the CVE behind her (you can see the antennae of the Lunga Point extending into the sky at an angle to other CVE's antennae).

4) We are seeing the BOW of the ship only - apparently the stern is submerged!

The ship is headed towards the camera. Either that or she is on collision course with the second CVE. You can see the island of the Lunga Sea. It appears as 2 black rectangles superimposed on the front of the second CVE.

Note all the sailors in a line across the flight deck. They are either doing (1) a FOD walkdown or (2) they are forming a human chain to keep the aircraft from rolling off the deck! Crazy squids.

Chez

OK! Who says Alcohol impairs the senses?!

After a glass of merlot I looked again - and can finally see Chez is correct and all the geometry now lines up!

She is dead on to the front!

I just need to drink more![:D]

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: YankeeAirRat

I had a close and personal friend earn this patch on the USS Midway CV-41 back in 1987/88 timeframe. Due to torpedo protection measures and some other things that made her extremely top heavy. So one day while trying to dodge a Nor'easter out of the Bearing Sea and typhoon coming out of the central pac, they hit some waves and the ship rolled 24 degrees to one side. The only US carrier to have done so.

I finally went out to the Hornet earlier this week (yes, I will post pics eventually) and noticed on the bridge's rear bulkhead were two levels. One measured up to 20 degrees list. The other measured up to 60 degrees! [X(]