'GRAY GHOST' FOR PRACTICE

Pilots attached to the ship's company of the USS Saratoga have made good use of the ship's TF-1 aircraft to maintain their carrier-based flight proficiency. In port or out, at anchor or underway, "the Gray Ghost of the Med Coast" is usually in the air.

Radm. Clifford C. Cooper, ComCarDiv Six, took advantage of the versatile TF when, in Genoa, he flew to a conference in Nice with Vadm. C. R. Brown, Commander Sixth Fleet. Capt. W. E. Ellis, Chief of Staff to Adm. Cooper, and Saratoga's Commanding Officer, Capt. A. R. Matter, are also members of the "Sara's Cat and Catch at Anchor TF Club."

Although the ship has visited only five ports since arriving in the Mediterranean, the Sara's assigned TF has an impressive list of places visited painted on its Fighting Cock-adorned cowling, including a number of air terminals visited during last fall's NATO cruise.