Location: Date: Photo credit: US Navy Contact: "Boom Powell Description: Change of Command, CDR C.E. Waring taking command of VSF-1.

Location: Date: Photo credit: US Navy Contact: "Boom Powell Description: VSF-1 CO C.E. Waring deep in thought in the Ready Room.

Location: NAS Fallon Date: Photo credit: U. S. Navy photograph by PH3 M. D. Care Contact: "Boom Powell Description: Rudolph the Red Nosed Skyhawk Commander C. E. Waring the VSF-1 Commanding Officer is on the left; Captain F. W. Oliver the Commanding Officer of NAS Fallon, Nevada is on the right. In the backgound is a YA-4B Skyhawk BuNo 145002 "Rudolph the Red Nosed Skyhawk." Captain Oliver presents a "War Eagle" in the form of a red-tailed hawk to Commander Waring the Commander of Anti Submarine Fighter Squadron One. VSF-1 was at Fallon for weapons training and received the "War Eagle" as its new mascot, symbolic of the spirit within the squadron. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Skyhawk" had a Grumman F-11A Tiger radar nose grafted to the body. The nose was painted red with a white eye and black pupil.

Location: Date: Photo credit: US Navy Contact: "Boom Powell Description: 'Charlie Eagle' resting in his 'Ready Room'.

Location: NAS Alameda Date: 1965 Photo credit: US Navy Contact: Gary Verver Description: 'Charlie Eagle' ready for briefing by the CO.