Navy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#999999" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="176005f0ermwup.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B>                           I  Didn't  Do  It  Alone   </B></FONT><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" I Didnt Do "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="18389550.gif" border=0 width="137" height="85" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Navy Parachute Rigger</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=385 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11623f50.gif" border=0 width="547" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>I served in the Navy from June 1949 to January 1974 </B></div> <div> <B>Photos and comments to follow. </B></div> <div> <B>More about my service in the Navy will be in my autobiography</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11790330.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="563" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I would be amiss if I didn't mention Carole.  She spent 23 years</B></div> <div> <B>supporting me while serving in the Navy.  Without this support</B></div> <div> <B>my Navy career would have been a disaster.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0555e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Boot Camp, Great Lakes, Illinois -- June 1949</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11c64600.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="96" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>After Boot Camp, I was sent to NAS Memphis for Airman Fundamentals  1949</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11d64670.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>After Memphis, I was sent to NAS Lakehurst to Parachute Rigger School  1949 - 1950</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11ef3f40.jpg" border=0 width="499" height="500" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A-School Class </B></div> <div> <B>I am last row to the left</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1272ccb0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="203" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I made my first parachute Jump, and graduated 8 June 1950</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12190d60.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>After graduating from PR School, I was sent to a blimp squadron-ZP-1</B></div> <div> <B>At Weeksville, NC near Elizabeth City  (1950-1953)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12258170.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Blimp Hangar at NAS Weeksville, NC</B></div> <div> <B>Our barracks on the left</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Navy2"><U><B><IMG SRC="0e8251e0.gif" border=0 width="37" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B>Bill's Navy continued</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>