User:KTo288/Witness

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I was stationed on the USS Florikan Where is the Rescue Chamber at? I know the Florikan is in Hawaii in a scrap yard. It is a shame, it was the best Sub rescue ship with the best record of 4 point mooring which is what we did while setting up to do an at sea rescue above the sunken sub. Getting this chamber in and out of the water during rough seas was extreamly dangerous. I remember seeing many crew mambers getting injured aboard ship during traning practices.

— 71.175.139.28, [1]

This photo is actually the property of me, Sgt John Panas, Jr (retired MSgt), the crewchief of Acft 56-3456. I crewed her from 1969 to 1970. Named "Darlene's Dear" by my pilot, Lt Col Reagon. I climbed the revetment wall to get this angle for the picture. It was a favorite technique used by many of the crewchiefs at the time

— 70.58.119.11, [2]


On Wikipedia, and Commons, we sometimes come across contributors looking for somewhere to tell their stories while they still can. Usually because of POV and verifiability concerns these accounts are rapidly removed, or at best shunted onto the talkpages. History is a mosaic made up the accumulation and distillation of such experiences. This proposal is to set up a wiki to which users can donate their personal stories and anecdotes.

But this is not educational[edit]

No one is interested[edit]

Surely no one is interested in the minutiae of people's lives-on the contrary, the big events in history are always well documented, it is the small personal details that are often missing and which fascinate people of later generation, for example the Vinolandia Tablets are considered the United Kingdom's top treasure, ahead of all hoards of gold or treasure.

Wikipedia doesn't tell the whole story[edit]

Behind the facts, behind the verifiable and that which can be measured is the personal, it would be against Wikipedia's core principles to allow such material, but without this material somewhere the true picture of people and events is incomplete.

Similar projects[edit]

The project most similar to this proposal is the BBC WWII:People's War which was a public call for people's accounts of their experience of the Second World War. However this project was limited to the events of WWII and was focused only on the experience of BBC users, and therefore the United Kingdom.

Further reading[edit]


What is the story behind this picture, its uploader User:Joeyhill910 shares the same name as the crew chief of the aircraft in the Roger Locher story, and has donated his personal collection of photographs with regards this aircraft and this event to Commons.
The description in this image was corrected by User:Yaquinaguy, with the edit summary The original entry was incorrect, attributing the rescue to "U.S. Navy divers." In fact, these were U.S. Air Force Pararascuemen, who made parascuba jumps on Gemini 8 to attach the collar hours before the U.S. Navy could be on-scene. I knew them.


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