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Subject: Plank Owner

Published: May 1999

By: Robert Langland

 

I am a plank owner and spent 4 ½ years on the Savannah, 2 ¼ years as RM in “C” Division – Transmitter Room and 2 ¼ years as ARM in “V” Division – SOC Aircraft.

 

Looking back on 30 years of active duty in the Navy, those years on the Savannah were some of the best.  As a radioman in the SOC Aircraft I had some of the most unforgettable experiences.  The last of which took place about a week before I was transferred to the Radio Material School.

 

LTJG Anderson and I went down in the Atlantic.  Lost the aircraft.  An old WWI four piper destroyer arrived several hours later.  I was hauled up by rope over the side of this old rust bucket and we were returned to the Savannah.  I flew the next day.

 

RM1/c EJ True relieved me as senior radioman when I left the ship.  Am enclosing a check.

 

Robert “Bob” Langland CDR USNRet

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