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PLANK OWNERS

 

 

Charles Horch - 1942-1946

 

 

JACK GANNON - 1943-1946

 

 

George Aument  - 1943-1944

 

 

 

 

Picture of Troy Dooley - 1965 Pearl Harbor

 

Hans Munkwitz Pictures

 

Russian Missile Tracker

Russian Missile Trackers October-November, 1963 -  Sent to us by Dale Nicol

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  • We are about 1500 miles SW of Oahu...The USS Wilhoite DER 397, spent 6 weeks intercepting radar, radio and telemetry signals from the Siber, Suchan and Sakhalin before we were relieved by the USS Newell DER-322

  • Russian smoke screen to prevent us from seeing what they were doing.

  • Russian helo called a "Hen" is seen on aft deck

  • President Kennedy was killed just before the Newell relieved us..ten minutes after we knew Kennedy was killed, the Sakhalin sent us the flashing light message, "sorry of your great loss"

  • Early morning rendezvous with the Newell about 25 miles away from the Russians.  You can see the mast head, range and port light as she closes in for our dawn rendezvous

  • Hi-lined 5 guys and gear to the Newell...these were three Navy CT's and two Marines to guard top secret stuff

  • Back to Pearl Harbor and greeted by my wife Judy and 4 month old daughter, Shelley at the Bravo pier.  I do not recall the names of the two other wives on the pier.

  • Dale Nicol, RD-2, 1961-1964 on the Wilhoite

USS Wilhoite (DER397) VIDEO

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Frank Roche's Pictures

 

Frank Roche's Pictures

 

The Movie

 

Wilhoite Makes Smoke

 

1955 1957 Pictures

 

Mike and Sharon Snavely 2008

 

Namesake Number 1

 

Namesake Number 2

 

Earl Price's Photos

 

McCaddon's Pictures

 

McCaddon Pictures

 

McCaddon Pictures 2

 

McCaddon Pictures 3

 

Bill Watkins Engineering

Panama Canal in 1955

JJ McGrath – Bobby’s Gunnery Officer on left

 

Sailor reading letter

Sailors

Tom and Addie Morrissey and Family

John and Carol Walker

Who is this cooking?

Gene Strickland

Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing and killing 15 people.


The designer,  Konstantin Kalinin, wanted to build two more planes but the project was scrapped.



Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed.



Evidently, it was not  good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin .



It's got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing front.



The size  would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on  its side, with  cannons.



And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but check out the cannons the thing was carrying.



In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes.



At that time they were proposed to have as many propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented yet.



Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time has already passed.



Still, on the attached photos you can see  one such plane - a heavy bomber K-7.