MIDWAY CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

Tuesday October 25, 2011
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  City Tour of San Diego TOUR # 1








                                                  Who put this stop on this tour?












How much did you say that was?



Nancy & Ron Lourens - Jullie & John Bolster - Joyce & Eugene Kilmer

I am now sorry I signed up for the next tour which leaves right after this one. Oh well!

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   Trip to Viejas Casino and Shopping Center    TOUR # 2 Squadrons & Shipmates paid for this tour and it was FREE to all attendees


No cameras are allowed in any casino

Wednesday October 26, 2011
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  First bus load to USS Midway Museum TOUR # 3

Joe Jankowski & Dennis Flerlage admiring the plaques

There she is USS Midway

Ron & Carolyn Deering of USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71



Thanks for the memories, Bob




Many watches were spent on the fantail



   Notice on the superstructure of USS Midway
the 8 decals of MiGs which were shot down by pilots of USS Midway. There are 3 members of Squadrons & Shipmates who are responsible for at least two of those MiGs.



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Second bus load to USS Midway Museum    TOUR # 4









Oh no! Bob Bostley fell asleep on the the bridge.


Watch out Norman Needles is at the controls

Joe Cubalchini of FDR remove that Midway Captain

John Cantor our most senior member at 94 threw all those youngins off the bridge

The navigator's desk






           Why did Bob make me go up to the bridge?


Time for a catered gourmet lunch on the port sponson deck

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Lunch



Marion Bostley is smiling because Bob made it down from the bridge. At last year's reunion he was in a wheelchair most of the time. WOW!

Is this tour almost over yet? No Honey, we still have to go to the Restoration Hangar

Lunch Break is over back to the tours
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