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M Div. * 1958-1960
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V1 - Rep 8,
1958 - 1960

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V2 Division 1958 - 1959
U.S.S. INDEPENDENCE CVA62
"Green Shirts.....launch and recovery specialists..."
The Aviation Boatswains Mates, launch and recovery
specialists comprise V2 Division. It is their expertise
and vigilance that keep the INDY's four steam
powered catapults and four arresting gear
engines in a condition of peak readiness.

These 130 green shirt experts serve as aircraft hook-up
men on the catapults, aircraft weight checkers and
jet blast deflector operators.

Below the hub-bub of the flight deck these busy green
shirts watch and maintain a myriad of machinery to
operate the catapults and retract them for another
100+ mile per hour launch.

Back in the arresting gear, the deafening roar and
screech of miles of heavy cable is the only
companion to a man standing watch over
the airplane catching machinery.

V-2, another important link in the
Air Department and Independence team!

************* ENLISTED *************
Name
Rate
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Comments
James E. Coomer AN
1959 - Oct 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
Forward Port Catapult
Deck-Edge Operator
Howard Davis AN
1959 - 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
Worked on the starboard cat
and was mostly the flight
deck operator although I did
a little of everything.
Stephen E. Fitzgerald AN
1958 - 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
Bob Grytten AN
1958 - 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
#4 Waist Catapult
Deck-Edge Operator
Ronald W. Hanson AN
1958 -
AN
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Plank Owner
Forward Port Catapult Crew
William K. Jerrett AN
1958 - 1961
AN
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Plank Owner
Started as a hook runner,
then arresting gear engines
Mel Levin AN
1959 - 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
Starboard Cats
Marshall B. McGrady AN
1958 - 1960
AN
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Catapult Maintenance
Chester Robinson AN
"Liightnin'"
1958 - 1960
AN
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Plank Owner
First assistant mirror operator
and division welder. With
AB1 Jack Houston and
CPO (Bulldog) Hansen.
Robert E. Worthington AN
1959 - 1960
AN
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Bob J. Bushong AB3
1958 - 1961
AB3
FLAG
Plank Owner
Arresting Gear
Robert W. Petroski ABU3
1958 - May 1960
ABU3
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Plank Owner
Forward Port Catapult
Console Operator
Norman R. Schlieper ADR3
1959 - 1962
ADR3
FLAG
Plank Owner
V2 / V6 Divison
Aviation Machinest Mate
Donald F. Swanson AB3
01 Oct 58 - 22 Nov 59
AB3
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Plank Owner
Jack Houston AB1
1958 -
AB1
FLAG
Plank Owner
(Bulldog) Hansen ABC
1958 -
ABC
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Plank Owner
************* OFFICERS *************
Name
Rank
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CVA-62
10 Jan 59
v2 Div.
1958 - 1959
v2 Div.
1960 - 1961
v2 Div.
1962 - 1963
v2 Div.
1964 - 1965
v2 Div.
1966 - 1967
v2 Div.
1968 - 1969
v2 Div.
1970 - 1971
CV-62
28 Feb 73
v2 Div.
1972 - 1973
v2 Div.
1974 - 1975
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1976 - 1977
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1994 - 1995
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1996 - 1997
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1998 - Decom.
v2 Div.
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