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Cedar Rapids airman writes home from carrier tour
A Cedar Rapids airman Philip Watters posted a September letter from Ha waii describing life aboard the USS Ticonderoga during a 59 day voyage around the Horn with stops in Trinidad Chile and Panama He details storms and a near Japan return and notes his role as a hoist operator on a helicopter crew rescuing pilots His family and other local servicemen are listed with updates on induction training and assignments across Fort Benning Des Moines and Europe Casual references to Navy and Army programs and individual service histories fill the page with names and places.
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Bruce Fishwila
Phillip Watters
Cedar Rapids
Ticonderoga
Joseph F. Parlis
Eave
Watters
John T. Watters
Seventeenth St
Ha Jwaii
Horn
Trinidad
Chile
Pan
Japan
Far East
Watters Ig
Fort Benning
Europe
Larry F. Sigusom
Charles J. Slauson
Ris
Nel
Pasack L. Ligtrt
Leone Dytrt
St. NW
Slauson
Franklin High Schoo
William L. Maloy
Ernest Maloy
Ave. NE
Howard W. Gilmore
Franklin High School
Navy
Fort Lewis
Wash
Army
Charles E. Hard
Bernice Swearingen
First St. SW
Richard Spangler
B. G. Spangier
Jawa Ave
Ronald L. Sandler
Phyllis Hasley
Washington Ave. SE