MAKE A MEME View Large Image Br first flight quarters.jpg en This photo is from the back cover of BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 WELCOME ABOARD 1972 under Captain Speer and it looks like a tinted beige copy of the back cover in the BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 WELCOME ABOARD 1971 under ...
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Keywords: Br first flight quarters.jpg en This photo is from the back cover of BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 WELCOME ABOARD 1972 under Captain Speer and it looks like a tinted beige copy of the back cover in the BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 WELCOME ABOARD 1971 under Captain Carroll My memory has this photo being taken in the North Atlantic of the coast of Norfolk as we rondevu with our sister ship Mount Whitney LCC-20 for the first and apparently last time as we steamed to Blue Ridge's first homeport San Diego via the Strait of Magellan If my memory is correct this was the first time BR went to flight quarters to receive the chopper from Mount Whitney notice swabbies prepping the flight deck My memory may have failed me on this pic I don't remember there being a flight deck operation during BR's first Insurv trial but this pic is virtually identical in operations under way flight deck prepping from a different angle with a pic of BR's first Insurv Trial Once I get the Philly yard publication up on BR's WikiMedia Commons I will provide that link In any event it just may be BR's first chopper operation https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File Blue_Ridge_First_Insurv_in_Philly_Shipyard_BEACON_Pub_page_1_of_2 jpg In late January she conducted her first INSURV in the North Atlantic after transiting the Delaware River from and return to Philly 4 Source https //en wikipedia org/w/index php title USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 oldid 611915045 Welcome Aboard USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 1972 page 06 of 06 jpg 2014-04-25 16 48 34 uss blue ridge lcc-19 Back cover of USS BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 WELCOME ABOARD 1972 at Welcome Aboard USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 1972 page 06 of 06 jpg PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard USS Blue Ridge LCC-19
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