25 and Alive
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USS Yorktown CVS 10 sailors spell it out on the USS Yorktown's birthday
In the Pacific Ocean
US Navy Photograph by PH2 Milt Putnam of HS-4
If I had the negative, I'd be able to sell the Yorktown vets prints. They can copy it from the www.YorktownSailor.com as I did. The picture was published around the world; LA Times, the Long Beach paper and picked up by the Associated Press.
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I doubt the picture was taken in late Jan 1968 as the Yorktown was confronting the North Koreans then over the Pueblo Incident.
However, on the 25th anniversary of commissioning on April 15 1968 we were available for a historic photo op. As I recall we were in the South China Sea about that time, or en route to Japan for unscheduled repairs (rumor was we hit/ran over something). Izzy and I left the Yorktown for the last time approx April 20th for discharge in SF. I therefore think the photo was on April 15 1968 and I was in the picture like another radarman remembered last year.
Pat Dingle RD3
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