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PATROL SQUADRON SIX VP-6
“The World Famous Blue Sharks” (1943-1993) PATRON SIX“
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VP-6 Squadron
Notes
1950

 
VP-6 Shoot down
HMS Kenya rescue
1950 


VP-6 receives 
"Well Done" 
for action 
in Korea
1951 

VP-6 Returns 
After Months at War
 Front
1951 

 VP-6 Korean War
DFC medal winners
1951
 

VP-6 Airmen
Rescued During
Training Exercise
 July 1951
 

VP-6 Soviet
Cold War 
Shoot down
November 1951


Power Failure Causes
 VP-6 Crew To Crash
 NAS Barber’s Point 
1952

VP-6
 The “Can Do” Crew 
1953


Neptune Patrol Runs
Cover Pacific VP-6
 1954


VP-6 returns home
from deployment
1954

 
VP-6 Watch the Doughnut
 Jones and Malecka
1955 

VP-6 Crew 5 
 exercise award winners
1957


 VP-6 homecoming
 “How to torture your wife”
1958 

 
VP-6 Squadron Crew
Escape Crash Mishap
1958

 
Navy ‘Blue Sharks’
Search for ‘Whales’
1961

 
Patron Six surfer
(LTJG Eastwood)
comes to rescue
1985

 
VP-4, VP-6 trade
Ready Alert barrel 1985

 Wing inspectors
laud VP-6 sailors October
1985
 
QA sailors picked as
VP-6's best -
Sailor of the Quarter
1985

 
VP-6 frockees
1986

 
VP-6 safety standown
1986

 
LT Mark Dold
rescues the Blue Shark mascot
1986

 
AMSC Ketcham
wins Iroquois Point
“Yard of the Month”

 
VP-6's
ENS Reed Smith
takes bull by horns

 
Navy Times Squadron
in the Spotlight
1987

 
LT Jack Miller
steps down as ASO
1987

 
VP-6 milestones awards
1988

 
VP-6 Blue Sharks
host Canadian
Forces 407th
Squadron RIMPAC
88

 
Blue Sharks
ride the B-52H
RIMPAC 88

 
VP-6 Blue Shark
mascot held hostage
1993