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Forum: Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic: Christenting Apollo 11 the 'John F. Kennedy'

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 06-15-2025 05:20 PM [QUOTE]Originally posted by ejectr: [b]Well, I know for a fact that the JFK was in the ship yard at Portsmouth, VA in dry dock June of 1969...[/b][/QUOTE] Reviving this 2009 thread to add information from Travis Holley, ATR2 (Aviation Electronics Technician Petty Officer Second Class), USN, as received via email: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]I was on board of the Kennedy and worked on the flight deck. We were in the Mediterranean in June and got back to Norfork in December of 1969. We left Norfolk on March 2, 1969, for the Med and I remember that day vividly for that is my birthday and I turned 21 the day we left.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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