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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive

USS ANTIETAM (CVS-36)
and VT-5
1961-1962

Photos by Ed Bettencourt III (AMH-2)

AMH-2 Ed Bettencourt III was a member of VT-5, Saufley Field, Pensacola Fla. from October 1958 to June 1962.

Training Squadron FIVE (VT-5) was established in 1956 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, by redesignating a Basic Training Unit (BTU) squadron. At the time these photos were taken it used T-28C Trojans to fulfill its mission: Carrier Qualification. Its tail code was "2S".

Formation, Carrier Qualification (51Kb)	Formation, Carrier Qualification (54Kb)	Formation, Carrier Qualification (46Kb)	Approach, Marine Major (79Kb)
Approach, Marine Major (56Kb)	Approach, Marine Major (45Kb)	Arrested landing (51Kb)	Arrested landing (69Kb)
Touch and Go, angled deck (52Kb)	Arrested landing (note tail hook) (15Kb)	Arrested landing (64Kb)	Island and twin 5"/38 gun mounts. Note guns plugged with wood (58Kb)
Tie-down between hops (61Kb)	Unknown sailor between hops (65Kb)	Unknown sailors, flight deck (26Kb)	Ed's "Rack", USS *Antietam* (notice rack isn't made up, he went in on Liberty Launch every night) (68Kb)
Ready for launch (56Kb)	Taking off (10Kb)	Taking off (45Kb)	Taking off (end of carrier) (65Kb)
S2F Tracker from New Iberia, LA, waiting on VT-5 to qualify (11Kb)	Approaching Saufley Field (50Kb)	Ed Bettencourt III; Saufley Field Tower in background (99Kb)	Tie-down, Saufley Field (86Kb)
Barin Field Flight Line, Foley, Alabama (53Kb)	Barin Field Fire House/Duty House (69Kb)	Barin Field Hangar (27Kb)	Formation, leaving Alabama coastline (49Kb)
Ed Bettencourt III, AMH2, Pensacola, FL, June 1960 (132Kb)