Wow, this video just brought back alot of memories, I will always remember all the explosions there were this day, and the words coming from the 1-mc. What a scary day, Thank you to the BEST FLYING SQUAD in the U.S. Navy.
For all of you whom served, please email me your contact info. I have a large list of shipmates i have contacted or been contacted by in the past few years. easypick4u@gmail.com I was DC3 Fleming then. I started the whole reunion and spent several hundred dollars trying to track shipmates down. If you send me your contact info, i can share the list with you.
Hello brothers. I was DC1 Campbell back then. I was standing in the passageway with the fire hose teams when the first explosion hit us. I was blown down the passageway along with the #2 hose team. I remember Bo Bo Harris was standing on my right in the vestibule and the Electrician was on my left. Not a day goes by that I don't think about what happened to us on that awful day.
i was HTFN killoran at the time of the fire. i was one of the first to respond after the explosion. there was about 5 or 6 of us down there and we managed to pull several of the bodies out of the hole before the 2nd explosion hit. it was really good to see some familiar faces in the video. had i known they were getting together i would have shown up.
This is for the people who wont to know why it happen.In the space where it happen there was a hatch behind it was a fuel line and a steam line they wure refueling and launching planes white smoke was coming from the hatch fuel was leaking from the pipe the steam line was heating it up causeing the white smoke they open the hatch seen the fuel then closed the hatch they should have backed out and shut down opps and fueling but they open the hatch again the fresh air caused the fuel to explode
Im was fn linder at the time of the fire i was the number 1 nozzle man of the flying squad before the explosion happen fn vierra wonted to be a hull tech i wonted to be a bt so we traded places he took my place as the number1 nozzleman .A few weeks later the explosion happen He died instally that would have been me why god spared me i dont know i think of him alot he had just got married i wish i could have met his wife to tell her how great of a man he and the others that died wure
I served on the Midway at the time of the fire. I was a part of G-3 forward bomb and was one of the men that fought the fire. We were in the Korean sea if I remember correctly.
I was on Midway when this happend, and I will never forget that day. I was part of the same repair locker on the forward mess decks as Buccuzzi and Chief Brock were during G.Q.s. A good friend of mine was part of the Flying Squad and he was injured pretty bad in the incident as well.
On August 23 2008, I went to the spaces where this took place. It was something I felt that I needed to do.
Wow, this video just brought back alot of memories, I will always remember all the explosions there were this day, and the words coming from the 1-mc. What a scary day, Thank you to the BEST FLYING SQUAD in the U.S. Navy.
MidwayPhotog 1 year ago
For all of you whom served, please email me your contact info. I have a large list of shipmates i have contacted or been contacted by in the past few years. easypick4u@gmail.com I was DC3 Fleming then. I started the whole reunion and spent several hundred dollars trying to track shipmates down. If you send me your contact info, i can share the list with you.
nohsp4u 1 year ago
Hello brothers. I was DC1 Campbell back then. I was standing in the passageway with the fire hose teams when the first explosion hit us. I was blown down the passageway along with the #2 hose team. I remember Bo Bo Harris was standing on my right in the vestibule and the Electrician was on my left. Not a day goes by that I don't think about what happened to us on that awful day.
Take care gentlemen....Campbell
PatriotTeam 1 year ago
i was HTFN killoran at the time of the fire. i was one of the first to respond after the explosion. there was about 5 or 6 of us down there and we managed to pull several of the bodies out of the hole before the 2nd explosion hit. it was really good to see some familiar faces in the video. had i known they were getting together i would have shown up.
shrtbus1 1 year ago
This is for the people who wont to know why it happen.In the space where it happen there was a hatch behind it was a fuel line and a steam line they wure refueling and launching planes white smoke was coming from the hatch fuel was leaking from the pipe the steam line was heating it up causeing the white smoke they open the hatch seen the fuel then closed the hatch they should have backed out and shut down opps and fueling but they open the hatch again the fresh air caused the fuel to explode
lumberjackman67 1 year ago
Im was fn linder at the time of the fire i was the number 1 nozzle man of the flying squad before the explosion happen fn vierra wonted to be a hull tech i wonted to be a bt so we traded places he took my place as the number1 nozzleman .A few weeks later the explosion happen He died instally that would have been me why god spared me i dont know i think of him alot he had just got married i wish i could have met his wife to tell her how great of a man he and the others that died wure
lumberjackman67 1 year ago
I served on the Midway at the time of the fire. I was a part of G-3 forward bomb and was one of the men that fought the fire. We were in the Korean sea if I remember correctly.
Psycokong 1 year ago
I was on Midway when this happend, and I will never forget that day. I was part of the same repair locker on the forward mess decks as Buccuzzi and Chief Brock were during G.Q.s. A good friend of mine was part of the Flying Squad and he was injured pretty bad in the incident as well.
On August 23 2008, I went to the spaces where this took place. It was something I felt that I needed to do.
YukeMansion 3 years ago