wrote:

Andrew C. Toppan wrote:

Of course they did!

The military always always evacs all aircraft possible when threatened
by a hurricane.

Is that a fact! Well it so happens that the Navy put all of the
aircraft in the area in the blimp hangars at NAS Richmond when a
hurricane hit the Miami area just after WW II. The hangars collasped,
caught fire, and 365 aircraft and 25 blimps were lost. I also have a
photo taken at NAAS Bronson Field showing SNJs chained down with the
gear retracked and sitting on tires during a hurricane. So the
military does not always evac all aircraft.

For values of "always" encompassing the last 50+ years Andrew is
correct. Thanks to the vagaries of timing, both military and
weather, I had the dubious privilege of participating in multiple
hurrevacs in each of three decades, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Once,
memorably, three weeks running, every Wednesday, during one spell
when deployed to NAF Kadena/Kadena AB in the 70s. Then once
again almost immediately upon return to Cherry Point from that
deployment in time for the end of the US East Coast hurricane
season.
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