Ropeyarn Sunday “Sea Stories” and Open Trackbacks
Not my story, and not a “sea story,” but a military one for your reading pleasure.
A story of disaster, survival, rumor, and, finally truth:
54 days before July 1st, 1957, Lt David Steeves, USAF had to bail out of his T-33 over the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
He walked (and hobbled and crawled) to safety, after the Air Force called off the search and notified his wife he had died…
And then the press ran amok, making assumptions and publically questioned the man. No one stood up for him, as they accused him, without any evidence, of selling his aircraft to our adversaries…
But…the happy ending comes 50 years later, with someone randomly surfing satellite pics on the net….
Categories: Air Force, History, Military, Technology
Of Fire, Ice and Guts: 3 January 1944…
0600L Aboard the Gleaves-class destroyer USS Turner (DD 648) the crew is either moving to breakfast or to stations in preparation for a 0700 underway time for the Brooklyn Navy Yards for a scheduled refit and repair period. Laid down in November 1…..
by Steeljaw Scribe on Jan 3, 2008 at 10:09 am
Fascinating story. Such a shame that the media has so little accountability, and had even fewer checks back then…
by Flatlander on Jan 5, 2008 at 11:11 am