A Billings man who served on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany during the Vietnam War might have been the last American to see Navy aviator Lt. Cdr. John McCain before McCain ...

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

and Laura Annie (Dalton) Strom. Ron was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving with the US Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. Prior to his retirement, he was a lineman with Northeast ...

September 10, 1967. USS Oriskany launches A-4 Skyhawks from VA-163 and VA-164 against Phuong Dinh bridge, North Vietnam. Bridges were frequently targeted throughout the Rolling Thunder campaing ...

(Photo by Sandy Huffaker for The San Diego Union-Tribune) Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and ... who served on the USS Oriskany — another Navy aircraft carrier — before retiring.

Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans ... including Ramona resident Rudy Weidler, who served on the USS Oriskany — another Navy aircraft carrier — before retiring.

Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans flooded the USS Midway’s flight deck Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the war’s end — and the daring rescues that came with it.

Dark Seas USS Oriskany Aircraft Carrier Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 24, 2025 In the early hours of October 26, 1966, while stationed off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of ...

Lewis served for three years during the Vietnam War, and more than two of them were on the USS Oriskany. “It really was a home. We went through all the different ports: the Philippines ...

He trained as a radar operator, and served a combat tour in 1965-66 in the combat information center of the carrier USS Oriskany, one of the workhorses of the Vietnam War. He left the ship just ...

Lauderdale. His company sunk the USS Oriskany, an aircraft carrier used during the Korean and Vietnam wars that was decommissioned in 1976, which, for the moment, is the largest artificial reef ...