C-124 Crash Tachikawa, 1953

Comments: I witnessed the C-124 crash at Tachikawa on June 18, 1953. I have a photo of crash site and Stars and Stripes newspaper report. Please contact me if you are interested in the above items.

Keywords: 374th Combat Cargo, Tachikawa

6th t c sqdn.p j pish, loadmaster

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6th TCS/MAS/AS 75th Anniversary

Comments: CALLING ALL FORMER BULLY BEEF! The 6th Airlift Squadron will be celebrating its 75th anniversary on October 4, 2008. We are looking for all members of the 6th AS/MAS/TCS who served with the squadron since 1933. We will be hosting a formal dinner along with tours of the C-141 Starlifter memorial and the C-17 Globemaster along with other activities. If you are interested in attending, or have photos/stories to share, please contact Captain Dave Gaulin at 580-278-1328 or email david.gaulin@mcguire.af.mil This is truly a historic event--the 6th is the oldest airlift squadron in the Air Force...and the world.

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C-124 Crash in Tachikawa 1953

Comments: I would like to hear from anyone who was serving in Korea in 1953 and whom would have any knowledge of the Tachikawa Japan aircraft crash, on June 18, 1953. 125 fatalities on the C-124 Globemaster . I am also looking for information on Sgt Thomas Kelley who died in this crash.

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Tachikawa Air Base C-124 Crash

Comments: Looking for any one who knew Sgt Thomas Kelley who was killed in this crash. Please email me with any additioanl information.

Keywords: Tachikawa Air Base C-124 Crash

63rd Troop carrier wing

Comments: He started his carrier in the Army Air Force in 1941 in Africwas stationed at Tach. Japan McCord Afb.Larson Afb.and finaly at Donaldson Afb. in Greenville SCHe was therefrom 1955 to 1962

Keywords: My Dad was stationed at Larson AFB and retired at Donaldson AFB.in 1962

1955-1957 TACHIKOWA

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FROM 1950 TO 1952

Comments: Was in the radio maint. field. put in some time at K-2 during NOV. of 50 and TDY at Clark AFB in Jan-March of 1952. We had a rough time in the fall of 50 and spring of 51. Very short of help and long hours of work. Any who wants can e-mail me about those years.

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374 Food Ser Tachikowa

Comments: 1950---1951 Whent to KOREA-K16-Oct-NOV-Dec-23----1950

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Hino Gun Site, Komiya, Japan

Comments: As an 18 year old I was stationed at Hino Gun Site at Komiya,Japan from March 1955 to September 1956 and wonder what the place has become.Can anyone answer? Thanks.

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6th Troop Carrier Sqdn

Comments: I was at Clark AFB April-June 28 1950. We then worked on a crew chief system on A/C 2564 until the 21st sqdn split between 6th TCS and 22TCS. I went to 6th and we formed Dock 3. After Inchon Dock 3 went tdy to Kimpo(K-14)for a while. We then went TDY to Ahhiya for a time. Sometime in '51 I started flying as a Flt. Eng. on A/C 2609. In May '52 rotated back to States. We brought back A/C 2681 from 22nd SQDN. Pilots were 1st Lt Davis(California) 1st Lt. Bell(Penn.) Nav-unk. from 22nd TCS. Radio Op. Cpl Cook( N. Car.) Eng. S/S Howard Marlar(Tex). The crew chose Brookly AFB,Al in the MAATs 6th ATS. I was discharged in Jan. 53, S/Sgt Howard Marlar

Keywords: Clark AFB , Tachikawa AFB, Kimpo,Ashiya,C-54D A/C2684,2564,2609,2720

374th TCWg - Photo Lab 1951-54

Comments: Lookinf for the Photo Lab Airmen who went into the mountains west of Tachi on Christmas day 1951. N.E. Dorsey

Keywords: Photo Lab Personnel 1951-54

I WAS AT THE C-124 GLOBEMASTER CRASH SITE IN TACHIKAWA

Comments: I have often thought of the families of the crash victims. I was 14 years old at the time and my sister, Sylvia, was 11. She lives in CA and I live near Columbia, SC so I spoke with her on the phone last night to see what she remembered. Our father worked at Tachikawa Air Force Base and we and our mother had sailed to Japan on a troop ship the winter before. Yuk!!! I was seasick for the two weeks it took. Just as a side comment, the stars were so beautiful. Of course there were no lights to cancel them out and it was winter and we sailed far north. I feel sorry for so many children today who think there are only about 50 stars in the skies. We lived in a small house that was off the base, one of four built together. It was an interesting time, only a few years after the end of the war. The people were so curious about us. At that time people still went to the bathroom in ditches. A fire truck used to stop regularly in front of our house and the firemen would get out and urinate in the ditch and try to see in our windows at the same time! It was June and we weren't in school. My mom was resting on her bed and I was doing the same. Sylvia remembers being outside sitting on the ground and 'feeling' the explosion through her whole body. We had lived around airplanes for years so I suppose our ears were attuned to the sounds of them. We became aware that it was coming in our direction and it seemed to be too low. The house began to shake and rattle like a severe earthquake. The noise was awful and seemed to be right over the house. Phrases like 'pouring the coals to it' and 'giving it throttle' come to mind. That is what it felt like the pilot was doing. It was a desperate sound. And then there was complete silence for a few seconds before the awful sound of the plane crashing into the ground. We all ran out of the houses and piled into a car and raced to the site which was maybe 1/4 to 1/2 mile from our house. The site was actually off the road screened by a grove of bamboo. We could see the smoke and flames and a Japanese man came running from the crash area, screaming for us to go away. "All dead, all dead", he was shouting. I know that nothing can comfort you but I hope it will help you to know that your loved one died immediately upon impact. The pilot was able to miss several houses around the site, including ours. He is my hero. The tan ambulances that you are used to seeing on the television show, Mash, traveled back and forth for days removing bodies. It was very traumatic for two little girls who had never experienced anything like that. We cried a lot. Our dad took us to the site a few days later. The Japanese had sprinkled the area with salt. I understand that is part of a purification ceremony in Buddhist funerals. I hope it helps to know that the Japanese treated the site with great respect and felt great sorrow. I had heard that the men on board were returning to Korea after R&R in Japan, but it sounds like men going to Korea also started from Tachikawa. I wish I could help you more but perhaps it helps to know that all of us, Americans and Japanese, mourned your family member's death and thought of all of you. Susan

Keywords: TACHIKAWA C-124 GLOBEMASTER PLANE CRASH

374 Supply Sqdn

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Looking for anyone who knew my father or the circumstances surrounding his death.

Comments: Navigator stationed at Tachikawa AFB, Japan. Killed in same crash, believed to be 28 June 1950, date of death listed as 30 June 1950. Place of death Pusan, Korea. Operations officer certifying Individual Flight Record Lynn A. McKinney, 2nd Lt. USAF.

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A/1C Carl C Steele, Tachikawa, Japan

Comments: PLease contact me if anyone has any data on this aircraft tragedy, or knew my brother. Thank you betty steele, chicago

Keywords: A/1C Carl C Steele, 374th Wing Carrier 22d, June 18 1953 Scanner aboard the Globemaster C-124, that crashed in Tachikawa Japan

Served in 374 Troop Carrier (1953-1954)

Comments: Would like to hear from anyone who knew me at Tachi. Some of this stuff is fuzzy so I may get mixed up with the tour at Larson AFB in Moses Lake WA. 1953.

Keywords: Radio Operator 22 Sqd. C-124 AF0101, Pilots Capt. Chuck Conners, Capt. Klatt, CP Lt. Bob Schmeling. Over 1000 hours to Korea, Philipines, Iwo, Taiwan, Guam, etc.

Tachikawa Japan, June 18, 1953

Comments: Any information on this tragedy, or anyone who may have known Carl, please send/contact me, Betty J Steele-Berger 1915 Greenfield Av North Chicago, ILL 60064 847 473 4735 I thank you in advance for your consideration. betty jo

Keywords: A/1C Carl Cole Steele 374th Wing Tachikawa, Japan Globemaster Aircraft Disaster. Carl was a Scanner aboard the aircraft, of June 18, 1953.

Globemaster disaster, June 18, 1953

Comments: My father, Capt. Bernard L. Large Sr., was standing at the end of the line waiting to board this plane on June 18, 1953. He was tapped on the shoulder from behind and turned around to find another Capt. standing there. This man was a West Point graduate, and in the U.S. Infantry. He had noticed my father's Combat Infantryman's Badge on his left breast pocket. This award was from the Second World War, from combat in the Pacific with the 10th Infantry Division. He remarked that he did not yet have the C.I.B., and desperately needed it for his career (professional soldier). The war in Korea was drawing to a close at this point, and this man stated that he was afraid it would end before he got over to Korea. He asked my father if he would be willing to trade places with him and allow him to go in my father's place; my father would fly out the next day in this man's place on the shuttle flight to Korea. My father agreed, and the West Pointer walked with my father to the manifest officer who was boarding the passengers. This man had the power to nullify the arrangement. After thinking it over a few moments, he finally agreed to the switch, took the boarding pass from my father, asked his name, scratched out my father's name, asked the West Pointer his name, penciled this name in over my father's, and handed him my father's boarding pass. The manifest officer then told the West Pointer that he would be boarding in about ten minutes. The West Pointer turned to my father, shook hands with him and thanked him for the favor. My father then went back upstairs to the officers' quarters, and went back to bed. The West Pointer boarded the plane ten minutes later, the flight took off, and moments later crashed in a rice paddy just outside Tokyo. The award (C.I.B.) that had almost cost my father his life in WWII had saved it nine years later during another war.

In Korea, my father was a company commander with the Army's most renowned unit, the famous 27th Infantry "Russian Wolfhounds" Regiment of the elite 25th Infantry "Tropic Lightning" Division. He retired as a Lt. Colonel in 1963 after thirty years' service to his country.

Please let me know if this information is helpful in any way. So very sorry about your father.

Bernard L. Large Jr. San Antonio, Texas

Keywords: C-124 Globemaster Crash, June 18, 1953

Captain Secor and PsyWar leaflets

Comments: I am a U.S. Army historian and am researching psy war leaflet drops in Korea. If anyone has information on the subject in general or specifically about Captain Secor's mission in a C-46 leaflet drop in June or July 1950, please contact me.

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TACHIKAWA AB, JAPAN

Comments: Can anybody tell what my father did in the Korea War from 6000 Op. Sq.? My father was TSG Richard H. Snider, Sr. who did service in Korea from Tachikawa AB, Japan. All that I know is this was secret mission to the Korea War. Can anybody help? Ernest Snider

Keywords: Information about 6000 Op. Sq. from Tachikawa AB, Japan in Korea War.

June 18, 1953 Globemaster crash

Comments: I am looking for any available information on my father who was aboard the Douglas C-124 aircraft that crashed in June 1953 neat Tokyo Japan. I have so little and don't even know what outfit he was with. He left behind a wife Lena and 3 children of which I am the eldest. Neither of my younger sisters even remember their father. Any help that anyone could provide would be very much appreciated.

Keywords: Wayde Daryl Evans 01-01-1921 to 06-18-1953 Globemaster Crash near Tokyo

6127th 7/52-5/53

Comments: I would appreciate hearing from a.f. perssonel I served with in Japan(july 1952 to may 1953) & K-2 korea. I have photos I will share. Pls contact via e-mail or snail mail.

Keywords: 6127th T.A.C. Sq. K-2 Korea, May to nov. 1953

C-124 crash, 1953

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