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1st SHORAN Beacon Unit


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Current Message 25 - November 7, 1999
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Entry: 4401
1st SHORAN Beacon Unit

HQ - BAKER SITE
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Richard Rogers wrote on 1999-11-07 00:00:00.0

Comments: I WAS STATIONED AT K 6 , FROM AUG 53 TO JUL 54.OUR HQ WAS K 6, BUT IT WAS A MARINE AIR BASE...MAG 12, VHF 121.

OUR PURPOSE WAS TO DIRECT B 29 RAIDS , NITE AND DAY, BY RADAR.IT WAS A VERY SECRETIVE QUADRON..NO PATCHES..NOTHING..JUST VERY CLANDESTINE. WE HAD RADAR SITES AT SIX LOCATIONS, SPREAD ALL OVER S.KOREA.

WAS STATIONED ON A MOUNTAIN..NEAR THE 38TH PARALLEL..AND AN ISLAND OFF OF INCHON. OUR HQ WAS ON OKINAWA, I BELIEVE IT WAS THE 19TH BOMBER WING.

I WOULD APPRECIATE ANYONE THAT WAS WITH THE UNIT DURING KOREAN WAR TO CONTACT ME. THE PENTAGON SENT OVER A PHOTO CREW TO PHOTOGRAPH US ON THE MOUNTAIN...WE DREW OUR RATIONS FROM 7TH DIV.

I STILL HAVE THE PICTURE THAT THE PENTAGON SENT TO ALL MEMBERS AFTER IT WAS RECORDED IN WASHINGTON.

LOOKING BACK, IF I KNEW WHERE WE WERE.(WE COULD SEE THE N. KOREAN ARMY FROM ATOP THE MOUNTAIN) I WOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE NERVOUS.

FROM KOREA I WAS STATIONED AT RANDOLPH AFB IN IN SAN ANTONIO AND WAS SENT TO SCHOOL AND SERVED AS A CRYPTO OPERATOR AT RANDOLPH AFB AND WITH THE AIR DEFENSE COMMAND AT MINNEAPOLIS AIRPORT.

ANYONE OUT THERE FROM 1ST SHORAN BEACON SQUADRON?

BEST TO ALL OF YOU KOREAN VETERANS. WE DID OUR JOB...CAME HOME, AND WENT BACK TO WORK. REGARDS.

Keywords: SHORAN MEANS. ... SHORT RANGE AIR NAVIGATION. WE HAD SIX RADAR SITES...TWO ON MISSIONS, AND FOUR BACKUPS

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Redesignated the 1st Shoran Beacon Squadron in February 1952, the unit provided electronic signals that guided 3rd Bombardment Group B-26 bombardment missions until the armistice in mid-1953.

Info needed 

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 
Updated: 22 Jan 2003
Ned Scholz Email address wrote:

I was in the Air Force in Korea. The unit I was in was small and I was 
told we were assigned to the 1st Marine Div.

The name of our unit was: First Shoran Beacon Unit. There were four 
groups of men and our headquarters. Two units in Korea and one in Japan
and Okinawa (this is what we heard. Anyway we went up and down with the
front lines and set up radar stations on high hills to send out radar 
beams with an other unit. Our headings crossed over a target and air 
plane bombs were dropped over the target.

Do you have any Idea how I might find the Unit history? Wish it was 
listed on your site. I don't know which air force we were in but may 
have been the 5th.

Ned Scholz
nedscholz@yahoo.com