Cal,
I shared pictures from this thread with the head of renovations at Ford Island as we were walking the old girl. He was thoroughly impressed to say the least! He could not believe what you had done! He then shared one of Swamp Ghosts stories with me.
...when Swamp Ghost was hit by AA, the compartment with the life raft was hit and came open. The liferaft inflated, and promptly caught on the left horizontal. The captain ordered the left waist gunner to shoot it off the tail. You can see where the 50 calibers tore into the skin on the left horizontal during the process. Pretty cool... I meant to take the pictures but totally forgot as I was lost in the story lol
great work Cal, and those words fall way short...
Casey