“If you went to Hong Kong,you went right by the Pratas Reef, where I crashed the H-2 trying to rescue some Chinese crewmen from an ore carrier, or the August Moon,that had race aground in a typhoon.” I sent my father’s cousin Dale Barck a postcard during a port call to Hong Kong in 1997, and this was the unexpected reply I received. Dale was a mighty correspondent, and sending me letters filled with sea stories from his days in the Navy,including the fateful events of his deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) in 1966. Dale Barck... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org