RAMEY AT YAMATO BUILDING

Comments: WAS STATIONED AT KOMAKI, BUT WORKED AT KOSOJI. LATER MOVED TO OZONE COMPOUND, AND LATER TO GIFU AIR BASE. IN 1954 WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET OF NAGOYA PASSING THE YAMATO BUILDING. I WAS IN CIVILLIAN CLOTHES AND FAILED TO SALUTE GENERAL RAMEY, HONCHO OF 5TH AIR FORCE, AS HE WAS COMING DOWN THE STEPS OF THE YAMATO BUILDING, 90 DEGREES TO MY RIGHT. HE CALLED ME BACK AS I PASSED, CHEWED MY BUTT, TOOK OUT A PAD AND PEN AND WROTE DOWN MY NAME, RANK, AND ORGANIZATION. IT HAD ME WORRIED FOR DAYS, BUT NOTHING CAME OF IT. LOVED THE NAGOYA AREA.

Keywords: 19 DAYS ON THE SHIP PATRICK TO JAPAN IN 1953. STATIONED IN JAPAN 5 YEARS TOTAL, INCLUDING 2 1/2 YEARS AT THE 849 AC&W SQ. AND A 2 1/2 HITCH AT MINEOKAYAMA, 611 AC&W-DET 44, IN CHIBA PREFECTURE.

slight correction re prev post

Comments: My ref. to Don Hall in a post I made yesterday (11/9/08 should have been ALLEN Hall. Jim Pryce

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1ST COMM SQDN., NAGOYA AIR BASE, 52 54

Comments: I was stationed at Nagoya Air Base, 1st Comm Sqdn, Tape relay (summer 1952 thru summer 1954.) I would like to hear from any one there during that time frame. I saw a post from Don Hall who was there then and knew the people he was looking for Is there a roster or address list of 1st comm people. Jim Pryce

Keywords: 1st Comm. (Tape relay) Nagoya Air Base 1952-1954

Moriyama Rats

Comments: Anyone out there who was at the Moriyama Compound from 1952 through 1956, we are looking for you to be a Moriyama Rat. Anyone remember the Beer and Meat Tea Room? There are still some of us who do, and we meet every odd-numbered year (as we are a bunch of odd numbers!). We have met in Biloxi, MS, St. Louis, MO, Rantoul, IL, Louisville, KY, Dayton, OH, Knoxville, TN and next year (2009) in October we will meet in Springfield, IL.

Hope some of you can make the reunion, but even if you can't, we'd be glad to hear from you. Give us some QRL.

Jim Seay (Head Rat of the Moriyama Rats)

Keywords: Moriyama, Nagoya

Nagoya-Komaki

Comments: I spent two tours at Nagoya and Komaki. Worked in the Wing Food Service Office across from the Hospital. Moved to Komaki in late 55. Returned to States Sep 56 and returned to Komaki for second tour March 57. Recently wrote a novel about life in Nagoya back in the Korean War days. Book titled "We Were Kings." If you are interested in the book, please contact me for link to publisher.

Here are some names of places in my novel: Nagoya Hall, Yamato Building, Ozone Compound, Tagata Shrine, Jiyoto En, Gamagori Beach. Please drop me an Email to chat and/or find out how to get my book.

If you remember when We Were Kings, you will enjoy the book. Bud Tyler, SMSGT, USAF retired.

Keywords: Ozone compound resident.

1st Communication Squadron

Comments: Became NCOIC of the CW section in the Yamato bld in 1948. We lived in the Sumitoma bldg a couple of blocks away. Helped operate an amateur radio station on top of the field grade officers quarters on the same street. I also signed on as a radio operator aboard the FP47. It was a 108 foot passager and freight boat that was used in WWII and taken over the 5th AF as a recreational boat. I loved to sail in Toba bay. A friend had a small sail boat there and that is where I spent most of my off duty Summer hours.

Keywords: George Savoy Krutchen Captain Stanzukey Kelso J.T. Jones Yock Mock McPherson

Moriyama Radio Teletype Receiver Site

Comments: Loved my first assignment in the Air Force. I was 16 years old when I arrived in Nagoya. Would love to hear from anyone at the comm site in Moriyama during the years I was there. Maybe you too helped build the swimming pool.

Keywords: 6-48 thriugh 7-51

1st communications Sqd.

Comments: Just stumbled on to this site. Took my basic training at Sampson AFB,Geneva,New York from January 1954 to March.Then sent to F.E. Warren AFB,Cheyenne,Wyoming for Teletype School. Sent to Nagoya,Japan via Troop ship.I served in the tape relay center in the Yamato building from April 1954 to July 1956. I loved working the mid shift so I could go up on the roof of the Yamato building and watch the sun come up and hear the noodle cart man calling out his presence. Loved Nagoya and Japan,especially the women. Unfortunately I dont't remember any names of my coworkers,probable because I spent so much time in the EM club.I guess I was a pretty wild guy.

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5th Air Force in Nagoya

Comments: My grandfather was stationed in Tokyo and then Nagoya with the 5th Air Force 1127th Military Police Command from January 1946 - January 1947. He passed away in 1984 and I am trying to put together a heritage album with the photos I have. I would love to hear from anyone who may have any knowledge of the 1127th MPs or any miscellaneous facts about the 5th Air Force during this time frame. I have no other information.

Thank you, Michelle

Keywords: 5th Air Force, 1127th Military Police Command, 1946-47, Nagoya

Comments: was in signal center Yamato bldg.1946 thru 1948.....best time ever in the AF that station..recalled in 1950 to Barksdale, La......& alot of the Nagoya comm. center there.....in fact I worked for a Sgt. StOnge there the very same one I gave my job to when I left Nagoya...Was an 805 crypto tech when I first got there....also ended up in Tokyo, Yokohama, hospitals after being swept off the road in a typhoon...main trouble I had was a skin condition fm the rice paddy so they cured it & sent me back to Nagoya.....

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AAF Nagoya 1955-57

Comments: My grandfather, Richard "Cookie" Wagoner was a member of the 1st Communication Squadron of the 5th Air Force and served in Nagoya from at least 1946 to 1947. I believe he worked in the motor pool as I have a number of pictures there as well as his driver's permits. I would love to hear from anyone who may have known or worked with him as I believe you may be in some of his photographs or could identify locations in them. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2001 and never got around to labeling his pictures. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me.

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Stationed at Nagoya, Japan 1950-1952

Comments: Period cover during those days was Jun 1950 to Nov 1952...

Keywords: Was assigned to the 1st Communications Squadron, worked in the Yamota Building on 1st street in Nagoya with skipper, Gregory, Love, and many more.

Looking for old friends

Comments: I was Sta. at the Yamato Bldg.in 1955 till 1957 as na teletype tech. 36350 I always think back to those days and the people I was sta. with I lived at the Moryama Air Base and remember taking the bus to and from the Relay center at Yamato Bldg. We worked 2 swing shifts then 2 mid shifts then 2 day shifts I remember the old song by Bill Bailey What Goes On Behind The Green Door nWe used to turn the radio way up becouse our front door was green coming into the relay center.Looking for Bob Noll, S/Sgt.Young,M/Sgt.Rumfelt,Joe Banelli Etc. Etc.I would like to hear from any of you guys even after I left I always wonderd what happend to all .. Thanks Stan

Keywords: People I was Sta. with.

54-56

Comments: I also worked the torn tape relay in Nagoya. I lived at the old Japanese Radio School- Across from the Hospital, then moved to the Nagoya Air Station, later to Fuchu A.S. outside of Tokyo. The old relay station was a fun place to work but was a royal pain when the teletype machines started breaking an everything started pilling up. I remember a Frank Weiss and a Philip Crumpler and good friend Bobby Smith.

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54-56 Yamato Bldg,Moriyama & Obu

Comments: I started out in the Yamato Bldg, on the top floor. We then moved to Moriyama and then out in the country at Obu. Some great memories of Nagoya and the area

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Comments: I was a 29150 in the Comm Relay Sta in the Yamato bldg from summer of 52 to the summer of 54, a memorable time. I went to one Nagoya/Komaki reunion long ago, but didn't know a soul.

I am looking for Don Fleming, Don Fairfax, Gene Rose, Pete Peterson, and Mercedes Lopez as well as their equally nefarious cohorts.

Allen Hall

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Jim Bryan in 1st Com Sqdn

Comments: I was a radio operator (CW) in the 1st com sqdn from Dec 1952 until summer 1953. I had an airborne AFSC and was working in a ground position. When a call came to transfer some of us to the 1955th AACS sqdn those with the airborne AFSC were shipped out. This included myself and Len Bietzel. I loved Nagoya and working in the Yamato Bldg.

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1st comm sq remote site at Obu

Comments: Spent '55-56 first as CHOP, then NCOIC of the remote comm site at Obu, the old Kamakaze base, and part of 1st Comm Sq in Nagoya. Shared site and mess hall with crypto group. Lived on coffee and Kent kings. Anybody remember us?

Keywords: Obu

Barney jensen

Comments: Looking for an old friend. He was from alaska and served at Griffis in rome ny.

Keywords: bernard Jensen

I was the OIC of the Communications Relay Center in the Yamato Building and it's Last Commander

Comments: I first lived in Nagoya and then Gifu Air Base and was the OIC of the Nagoya Relay Center in the Yamato Buiding. I ended up being the Last Commander of the Yamato Building when it closed in 1957. I then was Assistant to the Base Commander at Gifu, Colonel George Shackley, with whom I flew many of the same Combat Missions in the 381st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, in 1944 over Europe. He was the Commander of the 533rd Sq and I was a Pilot & Flight Commander in the 532nd Sq.

In recent years we have seen each other at our 381st Bomb Group Reunions. I'm sorry to say Colonel Shackley died a few months ago.

I have seen some of the gang from the 1st Comm at the Nagoya/Komaki Reunions.

I shall never forget my asignment in Japan in the Nagoya Area.

Everett E. Worrell, Jr. Major, USAF Retired

Keywords: As a Pilot I flew out of Nagoya all over the South Pacific 1955 to 1957. I Flew C-47s, C-45s and L-20s.

Comm Chief

Comments: I was the NCOIC of the CW group in the Yamato building before I replace M/Sgt. Hubbard as Comm Chief.

I then replaced M/Sgt. Ken Logan in October 1950 as the Sound Tech for the "Voice of the U.N" a C-47 that was equipped with powerful audio amplifiers. We originally flew missions to talk encircled North Korean soldiers into surrendering. We later changed our mission to fly over enemy troops along the Yalu at 11,000 feet broadcasting battle sounds to take the edge off of their death charges

Keywords: Voice of the U.N.

1952 Com Sqdn

Comments: All fellow airmen that served with me in any of the above locations,please contact me at my email

Keywords: In 1950, I was stationed with 25th Ammunition Supply Squadron,Tooele Ordanance Depot,Utah. In march 1952,I was assigned to the 1st Communition Squadron,Nagoya,Japan in VHF Transmitter repair.