The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1969 Page: 8 of 16
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0m Monday, February 3,
TEXAN RECALLS 'FLYING'
IN ENTERPRISE BLAST
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You're No# 'In' Unless You Worry
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out the flame*.
He said he remembers looking
down at hi* gloved hands and
“the skin was hanging down from
my arms just like another pair
of gloves.”
Garcia was burned on his arms,
legs back and slightly on the
left ear. A few pieces of shrap-
nel lodged In his leg.
Wolfe, who sustained shrapnel
wounds and bums on his arms,
back and face, said the explo-
sions shook the entire ship.
it- he was 25-30 feet away from the
r- explosion. An aviation flight deck
>y troubleshooter, he had just
id checked out a plane prior to
ir takeoff when Injured In the first
it series of explosions.
Aviation Bosun’s Mate 3rd
n class Garcia, son of Mr. and
r- Mrs. Ray Lamb of National City,
said he was 20-25 feet away.
“I just heard the blast. I
jj didn’t see anything hit me,” Gar
Therefore he puts a high pre-
mium now on comfort and secu-
rity, which he has achieved aft-
er hard, struggling years.
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But his son today, with a Job
waiting for him and a welcome
mat spread for him by the
Wolfe, 22, of Gordon, Tex.,
remembers only that "I just
went flying through the air for
no apparent reason.”
He didn’t hear the explosion
until afterwards. “Then there
was this big boom,” he recalled
as he Mt In his hospital wheel-
chair.
“It sounded like I was stand-
ing In front of a cannon instead
of behind it when it went off."
Garcia, 23, of National City,
Calif., an Enterprise fireman,
- fought the resultant fires as
more explosions shook the
world’s biggest warship near
Honolulu Jan. 14. The dfeaster
killed 27 men and left 85 injured.
Garcia was working near a
dozen 250-pound bombs as sailors
frantically attempted to “cool
them off,” and suddenly he was
hurled to the flight deck by an
explosion.
Flames danced on top of him
and he couldn’t get up. “Nobody
came to get me so I laid my
head down.” Within seconds he
was rescued and rushed below
decks for treatment.
The two men are among eight
Enterprise patients at the burn
treatment center at Brooke Army
Medical Center.
Garcia said he saw “people
running around all over the place
with their clothes on fire. Pilots
were trying to get out of their
aircraft and people were lying
around everywhere—I imagine
they were dead.”
Aviation Electrician 3rd Class
Wolfe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hollis
cia Mid. He didn’t even know
he was burned until he got to
Tripler general hospital In Ha-
waii, he Mid.
“I knew I was hurt bad as
soon as I looked down and saw
blood spurting out of my legs,”
he Mid. The back of his jersey
caught Are. A fellow sailor beat
‘And when you’ve got a ship
as big as the Enterprise shak-
ing, you know something’s
wrong," he Mid. *
Wolfe's first thought after the
explosion? “To get the hell out
of here right now.”
According to an
dudes a metallur-
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estrangement Is the result of
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there are areas of reconciliation
and avenues that lead to mutual
acceptance.
The danger of the present
generation gap is that there ap-
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Vienna. Prawy, who is ex-
ecutive producer of the Volk-
of agreement than misted In the
past. Today’s youth seems to re-
gard the middle-aged not as
misunderstanding Mends blit as
actual or potential enemies, rel-
ics of an outworn social sys-
tem who seek not to help them
but to crush them. Thek now-
trite slogan eloquently voices
this suspicion: “Don’t trust any-
body over 31"
“ This slogan is peculiarly an-
noying to a modern father. He
doesn’t feel he is inviting his son
or daughter to dwell in a rusting
nit but to a better way of life he
himself did not know when
young. He is bewildered by the
repudiation of his own values by
his own children.
Scarred by a great depression
and a peat world war, he pad-
soper, is better known as the
man who introduced Amer-
ican musicals to central Eu-
rope, which may make him
slightly biased.
“Here in Vienna,” he says
"we believe in the greatness
of American musicals. Here
we treat them with the re-
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in Amarir'a "
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1969, newspaper, February 3, 1969; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057981/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.