Tom Hogarth

Navy videos

Tom Hogarth was an aviation navigator in the US Navy's Oceanographic Air Survey Unit
(OASU) out of Patuxent River, Maryland between 1965-1967.
Before that, he was an NROTC scholar at the University of South Carolina, graduating in 1964.

Below are some videos that capture recollections of his journeys in the Navy from 1963 to 1967.

Tom was a midshipman in the USN on a summertime cruise in the Mediterranean.

This video tells of his experiences with seasickness and touring around Europe
alone, bumping into drunken high school classmates from Jermyn.

The 1965 "Project Jenny" provided television broadcast to Vietnam from a Lockheed C121

In 1965, the Oceanographic Air Survey Unit (OASU) was transporting government scientists on data-gathering trips, collecting magnetic and other properties of the planet. In this video, Tom takes us eastward and through many adventures.

This next video takes us westward in 1966 from Andrews base, through San Francisco, then to Pago Pago and on to Antarctica, then to Singapore, where we stop. .

This is the rest of Tom's trip around the world, this section from Singapore to Andrews air base.

Click on this globe to watch Tom's 1967 final World Trip eastward.

Tom left us on September 22, 2012, age 69, after a 26-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. You may
contact his son, Justin Hogarth at PVHogie@gmail.com or his sister Peggy at MMMinnis@aol.com