A bit late with this post, but as promised last time, this will be mainly about our visit to the Pima Air & Space Museum. The place is so big with thousands of interesting exhibits and air craft that I’ll probably break the posts into three parts.
With that said, first a link to their website; Pima Air & Space Museum
After you’ve perused that, we’ll start with our own visit…
I don’t really have much to say about these aircraft, they’re just nice to look at.
Lots of military aircraft with some commercial craft thrown in…and this map. I was stationed on the harbor masters ship in Da Nang harbor (on the coast, not far south of the DMZ), on the USS Oak Hill, LSD-7. A floating dry dock that carried military mobile equipment and landing craft. The rear of the ship would sink and boats would power into the well deck, and non-water equipment would be lowered into the well deck with out two giant cranes. We also carried a contingent of Marines for deployment. The ship I was on is now scrap metal. We hauled anchor one time and sailed south to Chu Lai where we dropped off the Marines using landing craft so the ship stood offshore a couple miles. Then back to Da Nang.
So that’s all for today, I’ll post more soon. Thanks for reading!