Location: USS Kitty Hawk
Date: 1965
Photo credit: "Boom" Powell
Contact: "Boom" Powell
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Description: VA-113 JG showing new Air Force Recruits around the A-4 Skyhawk!
What is really going on is filming for a movie "LT Robin Crusoe, USN" in 1965 before the Kittyhawk left for WestPac.
The Disney crew was on board for 10 days. Have pictures of Dick van Dyke, the star, and Walt hisself
with CAPT Carmody and on the flight deck. The VA-113 JG is unidentified.
Plot synopsis from IMDB: LT Robin Crusoe (van Dyke) is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after
engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned
submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the US Space
program and a native girl named Wednesday (Nancy Kwan) who was exiled by her father. Wednesday
thinks Crusoe wants to marry her, and when her father (Akim Tamiroff) arrives on the island to
collect her and Crusoe refuses to marry her, chaos ensues.
"Boom" Powell
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