USS Wilhoite - Pictures





IF YOU WOULD *LIKE INFORMATION ADDED* TO THE USS WILHOITE WEB SITE, PLEASE EMAIL IT TO LIZ RIDER AT: canerday@suddenlink.net 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 (Will take a few minutes to load) 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 (these may take several minutes to download) 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.