Ski,
From one Checkertail to another, that was my plane for the next launch that had its nose burned off and pushed over the side.
Hooter1
God bless you my Shipmate and RVAH ll brother. I was cube cleaning at the time of the fire and general quarters station was on the Forrestal’s fo’c’sle were the wounded were taken. I was an airman E-3 and the men called me, Ski because of my last name, Krajewski.
My friend and shipmate was a Checkertail, named, Robert W. Pitcher.