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Current Message 1 - July 7, 2007
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Entry: 61546
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

this fat cat gave the wrong email address

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Leonard Gray wrote on 2007-07-07 21:47:45.0

Comments: In my previous post I listed my email address incorrectly. I would love to hear from each and everyone one of you that was a member of the Fat Cats or had a family member that was in the Fat Cats.

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Current Message 2 - June 30, 2007
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Entry: 61466
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

I was a Fat Cat 52-53; Crew Chief C-46 #0025

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Leonard Gray wrote on 2007-06-30 15:36:27.0

Comments: Looking for Clarence E "Maggie" McGuire, Joe Massey, Daniel Fox.

Keywords: GI party at the Barn Christmas Eve 52; tail number 025

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Current Message 3 - February 6, 2007
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Entry: 59934
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

Brady & Tachikawa AFB

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Floyd Trehern wrote on 2007-02-06 13:56:38.0

Comments: I was stationed at Brady AFB from Sept '52 until Jan. '53 and flew as a flight Eng. I transfered to Tachikawa and flew as a scanner on C-124s until June 1953. Most of my flying was into Korea; however, I did make trips to Okinawa, Philippines, and Iwo Jima.

Keywords: C-46s and C-124s

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Current Message 4 - September 24, 2006
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Entry: 59017
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

Looking For Anybody

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Frank Fabian wrote on 2006-09-24 23:37:24.0

Comments: Assigned to the 344th TCS at Brady Field, Nov. 1952 as a radio operator, then transferred to Tachikawa, and flew to Korea and back, then left in March 1954. Would like to hear from anyone that was there at that time.

Keywords: 344th Troop Carrier Squadron, Fat Cats

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Current Message 5 - February 10, 2006
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Entry: 55688
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

looking for anybody

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thomas deane wrote on 2006-02-10 12:48:53.0

Comments: I was stationed to brady,transfered to tachikwa, transfered C-46s to japanese at tachikwa. I was a flight mech. 43151W, 1954 to 55 i think.

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Current Message 6 - January 14, 2006
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Entry: 55175
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

FAT CATS

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Diane Musselwhite wrote on 2006-01-14 11:49:36.0

Comments: I'm looking for any information that someone may share on my father, Capt. Homer E. Scheets, pilot in the 344th TCS. I have a FAT CATS logo on a beer mug. Any information on my father's war experiences would be very welcomed. Very little is known, as he died in a training mission in a B-24 crash March 28th, 1958.

Keywords: Korean War

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Current Message 7 - October 10, 2004
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Entry: 46247
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

Search Your Memories

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Michael Collins wrote on 2004-10-10 18:04:34.0

Comments: Does anybody, anywhere have any information on this accident that happened so many years ago? I have some info from the USAF that I gleaned via FOIA but there are still gaps.

Michael Collins Cleveland, Ohio

My father was aboard that ill-fated aircraft.

Keywords: Aircraft crash, C-46, South of Hokkaido Island, 01/02/54...an aircraft of 315th Troop Carrier Wing. Pilot: Donald B. Shirley, 1LT.

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Current Message 8 - September 20, 2002
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Entry: 28381
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

Pride: The Fat Cats

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Leonard Helfand wrote on 2002-09-20 12:27:02.0

Comments: Proudly served under Captain Hanig from Jan 1953-Sept 1954. Was a flight engineer and crew chief on a C46 which survived Korea, Big Switch and Little Switch as well as a typhoon. Slept in a tent next to the playing fields of the Tachikawa Red Devils and lost a good friend named Ravling in a crash going into a northern island. Miss the cofee and cake at the CAT shack. Age has taken its toll on my memory of the guys that I lived with, except for a sargent Fink and an airman 2nd named Bryzinski.

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Current Message 9 - March 28, 2001
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Entry: 15660
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

1952-55

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Harold B. Hanig wrote on 2001-03-28 00:51:05.0

Comments: 344th Troop Carrier Squadron (Fat Cats) C-46 Brady and Tachikawa ABs July 1952-July 1955

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Current Message 10 - August 17, 2000
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Entry: 11097
344th Troop Carrier Sqdn

CREW

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Charles Pritchard wrote on 2000-08-17 21:56:09.0

Comments: 344TH TROOP CARRIER SQUADRON

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Tachikawa AFB

From: Herb Epstein  Email address

Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:20 PM

Would like to contact any one who was attached to the 344th Troop Carrier 
Squadron, based at Brady Air Base, and then transferred to Tachikawa Air Base.
 
I served as an Airborne radio operator aboard our C-46's, flying to Korea 
and back.

Was there during the war for about 8 months, and for an extended tour of 8 
months after the war ended. At the end of the war, when we switched some of 
our POW's with the NK's, I was in the hospital at FEAMCOM, for 65 days sick 
with hepatitis.

After my tour of duty in Japan, transferred to Dover Air Base, Delaware, 
flying C-124's to the European area. 

Looking to renew any old friendships that "we" might have made while there.
Herb Epstein, A/2c