• Life of a VP-50 Ground Pounder

    Life of a VP-50 Ground Pounder0

    Submitted by Tom Leasure During my final stages of adolescents, and after high school, I found myself having no direction in life, no job, no college and of course no money. Just a lost soul not knowing what was to become of myself. My only certainly in life at this time was the draft was

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  • 2 MiGs vs. 1 PBM

    2 MiGs vs. 1 PBM1

    Submitted by Dave Rinehart Never let it be said shanghaiing was not practiced by the US Navy in the 1950’s! My only personal involvement with this practice began on Oct 1, 1953. I was in Crew 5 of Patrol Squadron 50 deployed to NAS Iwakuni, Japan. We mustered as usual at 0800 in the hanger

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