The Hook - Naval Aviation in World War II - Spring 2001
VOLUME 29 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2001
©2001, all rights reserved
ISSN: 0736-9220
On The Cover
LT Trevor "Bulls" Estes of VAQ-I30 waves a VS-22-S-3B aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) during operations in the Persian Gulf on 4 Jan 2001. LSO platform is LTs Mark "Iris" Fryman of VF-32 (center) and Micah "Shaggy" Manningham of VFA-105.
Photo by PHAN Rodger D. Schilling, USN via CHINFO0Table of Contents : Air Plan
Table of Contents : Air Plan
- BRIEF
- From the Chairman: An Open Letter to the President
RADM Frederick L. Lewis, USN(Ret) - Here's My Opinion: It's the M Word
Margaret Bone - BuPers Report: Detailing At The Crossroads
CDR Steve "Moose" Laukaitis, USN
Aviation Junior Officer/LCDR Assignments (Pers 432) - From the Executive Director: Gearing Up for Reno
CAPT J.R. Davis, USN(Ret) - Naval Aviation in World War II: The Grumman F7F Tigercat
photo essay by Robert L. Lawson
- From the Chairman: An Open Letter to the President
- TAILHOOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
- FROM THE CATWALK
- From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: Preflightus Maximus
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow - Where Are They Now? Monroe Smith
Barrett Tillman
- From the Catwalk
- LAUNCH
- Workhorses of the Fleet: Naval Aviation's Utility Squadrons
Sean Paul Milligan - Where Are the Carriers?
- Workhorses of the Fleet: Naval Aviation's Utility Squadrons
- AT MARSHAL
- Air Wing and Squadron Reports
- The Way it Was: Saufley Field
CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
- RECOVERY
- Commentary: Potomac Currents
Michael Dennis - Lockheed Martin's Navy JSF Completes Test Flight Program
- Commentary: Potomac Currents
- IN REVIEW
- RESPOT
- Midway Museum Project Wins Approval
- Remembering Zeke
Barrett Tillman - Bay Area Ready Room On Successful Track
Cheryl Bly Chester - Ex-POW Brings Closure to Fellow POW
Henry Sakaida - Aviation Cadet Museum to Open
- WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- What is It?
Steve Millikin and Hal Andrews
- What is It?
- IBC PATCH PAGE
- Reserve Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 80 (CVSGR-80)
Managing Staff Members
- EDITOR : CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret)
- MANAGING EDITOR : CDR Jan C. Jacobs, USNR(Ret)
- ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- CAPT Wynn F. Foster, USN(Ret)
- Barrett Tillman
- Carmelle Carter
- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
- Hal Andrews
- Margaret Bone
- CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
- Mike Weeks
- CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
- LCDR Ian Anderson, USN
- Ted Carlson
- Rick Llinares
- José M. Ramos
- CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
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