2 june 1968. My first view as I came up from the hanger deck.

I was in the CH46 (front bird) repairing a radio when it all came down. Never knew anyone had pics. -Submitted by: Andrew (Andy) Young [ayoung@bak.rr.com] 2009-10-22

Yes, I have these and more... They were 36mm slides and I never looked at them until recently when I scanned them to photos. I contacted the Crew Chief of the bird George W. Mitchell who had many questions about that day such as why he survived and others didn't. He did all he could to get himself out and absoutely could not have saved the other Marines who perished in that unfortunate event. Incident Date 680602 HMM-265 CH-46A 152545+ Crash aboard the USS VALLEY FORGE (LPH- -Submitted by: chuck Nowotny [cnowotny@msn.com] 2010-06-02