Aleutian Islands & Bering Sea

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Bill - Standing Beside Screaming Eagle 100
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These pictures were taken in the early summer of 1988. This was the beginning of a six month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. At that time I was the Avionics Branch Supervisor with the "Screaming Eagles" of Fighter Squadron Fifty One (VF-51), aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

We were on our way to our ultimate destination of the North Arabian Sea in support of Operation Earnest Will. Our job was to escort re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker ships through the Straits of Hormuz. Iraq and Iran were at war, and all Kuwaiti tankers were re-flagged with US flags and protected by our fighter jets as they transited through the straits. Our first part of the deployment was spent in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands doing carrier qualifications - where the pilots practiced shipboard landings in extreme conditions - and various other tests to get us ready for going "on-station."

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all photographs on this page taken by:

W. P. Flinn