Oral History: Phil Cervantes

[0:01] everyone thinks for instance Tom Cruz gets in the airplane and he salutes and shakes everybody and boom off he shoots people don't realize what it entailed to get that airplane shot off look at the men below decks when we had to come up the speed to launch that aircraft and every time they launch that aircraft how many gallons of fresh water did they lose by the catapults well it had to be replenished and that's the evaporator gang that was down in the balls of that ship making that fresh water who had to bring that ship up to speed the men down there working the main engines they had to bring that ship up to speed and they were moving we were

[0:47] moving because they had to get the wind velocity up and then how they get the steam those poor guys in a boiler room you could you could start seeing them hit those burner barrels and start start uh bringing it up speed making more steam to bring that steam up so everybody had to work to get that airplane off it's not just Tom Cruz flying off that thing it takes a whole group of people