Irisheyes, your question on what aircraft carrier I served on.. Upon graduating from flight school in 1951, I went aboard the carrier BonHomme Richard(cv-31) VC-61 squadron flying F9F-2B Panther fighter jet esort for photo recons off coast of Korea, than to 1st Marine div. VNJ-1 at K-3 in Korea doing same there flying F2H-3 Banshee jet. Than on to USS Princeton(cv-37) with VC-61 doing same onboard in Korea. Some 20 months of Korean combat action. Then I decided it was time to get into real dangerous duty, and that was flying P2-V Neptunes at Agana, Guam for typhoon hunting. I was there 18 months, and back aboard the BonHomme Richard again, than shore duty at NAS Moffett Field, Ca, NAS North Island, Ca, on to USS Constellation(cv-64) for Viet Nam duty, and several other stations during the 24 years in.
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