Description"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt.
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Edward Peary Stafford is a retired commander in the U.
About the Author Jack Sauter was an aviation electronics technician during the Korean War and is the president and editor of the USS Lake Champlain Association Inc.
From the excitement and thrill of being catapulted from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the tedium of service at sea, the author describes in detail his service in the Korean air war.
Assigned to the USS Midway and the USS Lake Champlain, he flew twenty-one early warning and antisubmarine missions from the backseat of a Douglas Skyraider with Task Force 77 off Korea in support of our troops.
Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Jack Sauter was one such aircrewman.
Manning radios and radar, they were indispensable to the success of missions.
I remember praying, \'Whatever else happens, don\'t make me bail out of this thing \'" With little to no recognition from the general public, Navy enlisted aircrewmen performed heroically in the Korean War.
For the umpteenth time, I tightened the harness of my chute.
My gut was wound so tight, it was hard to breathe, no less talk.
All of us, I\'m sure, made impossible promises to God, and I was one of them.
Each of us sat silently with our own thoughts.
Tonight was different.
Description"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt
