"I too was on it when it left Long Beach in February 61 on my way to Bargers Point Hawii. Rode it to Pearl Harbor. Didn't know aat the time it was on it's way to decomissioning."
I went aboard with VA-35 in 1963 just prior to the '63 Med cruise. While in the Med, we had a flight spotted on the fantail for launch at night and one of the recovering planes came in and landed all amoungst them-Heck of a fire on the flight…