Category Archives: Testimony of Pilot -Series

What kind of war was it? – “How do I know, I saw the whole thing backwards!” June 4-7, 1942 at Midway

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Ed

Battle of Midway, Commanding Officer, USS Enterprise, Serial 0133 of 8 June 1942 At Sea June 8, 1942 From: The Commanding Officer. To: The Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet Via: Commander Task Force Sixteen. (Rear Admiral R.A. Spruance, U.S. Navy). Subject: … Continue reading →

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Year of War- Reflection

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Ed

(Please note that this is being posted on 25 March 2015, after reflection on previous offerings) Remembered Sky began so as to tell the ’72-’73 story of USS Midway, Carrier Airwing Five and to further focus primarily on the Attack … Continue reading →

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Operation Homecoming Part 8: The First and the Last

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Ed

Beginning on 23 May, many of the Viet Nam POW gathered for a reunion in Southern California centered around the Nixon Presidential Library to celebrate not only their 40th anniversary of regaining freedom but also of their night in the White House as a … Continue reading →

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Operation Homecoming Part 7: Lady and the Flag

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Ed

When Carole Hickerson’s husband was missing in action during the Vietnam War, she started a movement of families frustrated by a lack of information on their missing loved ones. RememberSky Note: Carole and Jim Hickerson are great friends. Jim was … Continue reading →

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Operation Homecoming Part 6: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Ed

Naval Proceedings Magazine – November 2009 Vol. 135/11/1,281 By Peter Fretwell and Taylor Baldwin Kiland The USS Stockdale (DDG-106) was commissioned in April 2009 in Santa Barbara, California. The man for whom the destroyer is named, Vice Admiral James Bond … Continue reading →

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Operation Homecoming Part 5: Always Leading and Always Will

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Ed

by Orson Swindle (USMC, Ret) Prisoner of War in North Viet Nam (Orson Swindle was shot down on November 11, 1966, released on March 4, 1973) Reproduced with permission of USNI and the author … for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity … Continue reading →

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Operation Homecoming Part 4: The Bracelets

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Ed

(Note: This piece was originally published on the Project White Horse Forum for Veterans Day 2010.) In high school, Joleta McNelis was never far away from a man she had never met. She carried Lt. John “Jack” Ensch in her heart … Continue reading →

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Gifts & Reflection – No Better Title: “These Good Men”

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Ed

by John ‘Shylock’ Koch I still cherish the time I spent with the air wing.  As I look back on it we were warriors and comrades all rolled up together.  When one of us called for help, we all came, … Continue reading →

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Christmas ’72 Stories: (Final) Gifts, a Tree, and a Turkey with all the Trimmings

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Ed

As the story has been told – as I noted previously- the end of the war in Vietnam is considered the result of the Christmas bombing operations of Linebacker II, and so the convention of telling this story. I’ll end … Continue reading →

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Christmas ’72 Stories: (8) “A-rab Beeper, come up voice.”

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Ed

Professional history of war mostly addresses major battles, the dates, the generals, the admirals, tactics and technology, and then analysis of results, all  for obvious reasons. But significant detail is invariably lost particularly when one event leads to a most significant occurrence … Continue reading →

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