ground fire friendly fire

Comments: believe it...stuff happens that wwe never here about it

Keywords: unknown units trapped in the center mountains of north korea...during south thru north korea...the troops called in missions ammo...events that followed some orders snafo...while flying low in trails..the first aircraft was hit by friendly artillery fire , the second plane trying to avoid the debris.fall to ground the 3rd a/cmade a sharp left turn out. 4th a/c was me but luck god/luck over flew..2plane down by friendly fire..what is luck???????????? almost always with me..

50th TCS - Europe, 1945-1946

Comments: Looking for 50th TCS team members before Korea.

Keywords: Bobby Scott, Robert Scott, supply clerk, Central Europe Campaign, EAME (European/African/MiddleEastern) Theater, 1945-1946, Army AirCorps, Paris, Villacoublay

FROM A CURRENT RED DEVIL

Comments: For all persons having pictures or info having anything to do with the Red Devils please contact me. I am a current 50th airlift squadron "Red Devil" whom fly's the C-130H3 aircraft. Please contact me if you have any resources.

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Comments: Comments: Looking for anyone who served with my Dad at Ashiya, Japan from Nov '51 to June '52. His aircraft was a C-119 named Rebel Devil. His name was Bill Higbee.

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DRILLED AT THE CHOSIN RESERVOIR DEC 1950

Comments: this is my last comment on my experiences of the korea war from aug 1950,to dec 1951..the purple heart that i never received..one clear cold afternoon..while dropping supplies to the army and or marines trapped up there in the frozen north [a cold front from siberia] after passing the dz tootsie roll/?..the a/c made a sharp right turn but wider the the pilot thought capt boyle..fly right over the hills that was awash with chinese troops..thinking what bar i'll be drinking in tonight..out of the blue,bullet holes racked the side and the bottom for the plane.sitting in the jump seat next to me was a paratrooper[the kicker ]bullets were flying everwhere one blew right thru the kickers back pack..an other teared from the bottom of the a/c and blew up the radio operators desk..splinters and metal parts scaped my legs..dazed..everone on board looked around ,where did that come from..flying a uneven course back to ashiya..landed..coming in on a wing a prayer....the whole left side of the a/c was full of holes..the prop. had a 14inch hole in it...the entire ground crew was out observing the damages...went over to the base hospital..cuts and scatches over my legs..was released ..and back to flying...they made me staff sergeant/ and gave me a air medal..for heroics..what hero...i was scared out of my mind..i hated flying and hated war..but what happened to my purple heart...the reason i never pushed it..the fact is my brother john..was with the 10th mountain div in italy and had his leg blown off..now thats a purple heart...this is probably my last entry..because of old age plus lung cancer, prostate cancer, heart..if someone is reading this a hundred years from now ./.remember i was one of lucky ones..the trues hero's are the troops that never returned...patrick engle

Keywords: pusan,the invasion ,kimpo,phongyong,sananju, yalu, chosin reservoir, hungnam, haragu-ri...etc

Looking for T/SGT Billy Gene Luther

Comments: Hi, I'm looking for my Grandfather Billy Gene Luther, my grandmother told me he was in the 52nd Troop Carrier SQDN U.S.A.F, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. If anyone could give me any information as to his whereabouts that would be fantastic. Story is my father was adopted out when he was born and has made contact with his birth mother whose name is Rose and i want to find my real Grandfather. This is all the information i have, so if anyone can help me out that i would be very grateful. Thanks Michael

Keywords: 52nd Squadron, South Carolina, Greenville

on a one minute conversation that changed my life

Comments: after failing all my grades in john adams h.s ozone park..which is not easy ..apparently what is noted as a attention deficiency..aquaduct race track in the vicinty of the h.s...was my main enterest..i quit at 16 ..and at the time wasn't thinking about my futureonly a furlough..one evening in the summer of 1947...a friend of mine peter cusumano who had enlisted in the army in 1946 returned on leave from korea/japan..advised me to enlist in the air force..better chance of going to a tech school.the last words i ever heard was quote when you take the morse code test for radio/mech.. run through the entire session most people would quit.but you are bound to quess one out of three unquote...after finishing basic training at lackland afb ..the people the were going to tech at scott field ill...shocked i finished the r.o course..and was assigned to greenville afb s.c...arrive at the base on sun morning..reported to the clerk..told me to hope in a jeep and out we went to the flight line...a c82 sitting there..climbed up the ladder to the cockpit..the crew taxi out off we went into the wide blue yonder..ft bragg nc..what am i doing here i am frightened of heights..after dropping the ptroopers a the dz..and hanging on for dear life..returned to greenville..in turn i flew all over the world..greenland etc..as the korean war started i was up for discharge the usaf can't ship me..truman extented me a year..of we went to japan. arrived koreabase ashiya ..japan..dropping shuff/..the ironic part about this story is that cpl peter cusumano was killed in the bug out 2nd div..38inf g company at the gantlet..within one year of the conversation...left the af..got a job with the federal aviation adm..lga/jfk/isp..24 years..retired..also worked at a fire dept in nyc as a dispatcher...thanks to cpl peter cusumano..a hero..still looking for a relatives so he can have a proper burial...north korea nov dec 1950..chosin few...

Keywords: c119/c47c82 korea 1950/1951

the ghost

Comments: THE SQUADRON DEPARTED SMYNA AFB TENN ON A NIGHT TRAINING FLIGHT AND FORMATION FLYING TO MAXWELL AFB AND RETURNING TO SMYNA..SEATING IN THE RADIO SEAT THINKING OF OTHER THINGS FRIGHTEN THAT WERE FLYING TO CLOSE FOR MY COMFORT..TURN MY RADIO CHAIR AROUND TO ESCAPE THE SO-CALLED TERROR THE WAS ABOUT TO UNFOLD..OFF OUR LEFT WING THE PILOT ADVISED THAT HE WILL RETURNING BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS WITH ONE ENGINE..AS I WATCH HIM PEEL OFF TO LEFT WITH FIRE ON THE LEFT ENGINE, .AFTER ABOUT TWO HOURS OF THIS NONSENSE..WE FLEW ON TO NASHVILLE...LANDING IN TH DARK.WITH RELIEF THE I EXITS THE A/C.AND WALKED UPTO THE RADIO SHACK..THE R.O'S LOOKED AT ME AS IF I WAS A-. GHOST-..WHAT'S THE PROBLEM ,THE C82/C119 THAT PULLED OUT OF THE SQUADRON HAS CRASHED OUTSIDE HENDERSENVILLE TENN ALL THE CREW WAS KILLED.INCLUDING ME .THE R.O'S THOUGHT I WAS THE GUY THAT WAS ON THE PLANE THE PILOT NAME WAS CAPT KATZ SURVIVING D.DAY FROM BROOKLYN NY SINCE WE USUAL WENT ON FAM FLIGHTS TO LONG ISLAND.I JUST HAPPEN FLY IN ANOTHER A/C...FATAL NIGHT LIVING IS ALL ABOUT CHANCE...OR IS IT...

Keywords: C82/C119

runway prop

Comments: across the pacific..i was supposed to be discharged from the usaf because of the fact my three year enlisted was up in dec 1950..the war....war...war.. to all you people that don't get...it...certainly the gi,s from the 24th inf div,first cav,marines, who where there in july and aug get it, since must of the occupation troops were guys like me eenlisted in 47/48..with nothing else to do..it pisses me off when the so called pols in washington ..when mentioning the sacrifices the the ww2,nam,guf wars noticed they never mention korea...30000 dead, 8000,missing..must in the first two years of the so-called police action..im annoyed now...besided it's 3am will continue this later on the runway prop while taking from guam..that would be one of two...should have been killed right that and i would have been happy...its was always almost died..now that i have lung cancer.prostate cancer.a heart attack...77 still here..

Keywords: inchon,pusan,2 trooper drops,sinaju.chosin res.yalu. up and down e/w..

k8

Comments: as my brain into nothingness...my last thoughts on being a crew member on a c119 flying boxcar. a job that i never wanted...gee but i hated flying...what happened to my original request for a a/e mech...no the af said i was left handed..the only problem was i had to put up with some of my fellow crew members pilots. co-pilots etc..crazy bastards from ww2...flying b17's on germany..beside the point i wasn't in control..the stunt they pulled one night approaching k8..misjudging the lenght of the runway..on the approach the pilot asked the co-pilot if he would like to land the a/c..ok i take the controls..knowing it was a short runway..he attempted to use the full lenght.not realizingthey was a slight rise at the approach...watching these two fooling around. we unexpectly to land on the runway but dropped the plane so hard..that it the read boons broke in half my jaw hit my knee, dazed we continued on down the runway..with the boons dragging ...one usaf c119 destroyed...five cigs at one time patrick engle in korea 1950/1951

Keywords: c119, ashiya japan, radio operator

SPAM TOWN C-119

Comments: LIKE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF THE OLD GANG

Keywords: C-119 SPAMTOWN, NOSE NO. 155 0R ICHI GO GO FERRIED C119, NOSE NO. 152 FROM ZI TO ASHIYA . JAN OF 1952. THERE WAS SEVEN OTHER C119'S AND EIGHT B-26/S

FLEW MOST OF MY MISSIONS, C-1'S C-2'S OUT OF K16, 12 13.47 AND K9

50th Troop Carrier Squadron

Comments: If anyone serving with the 50th Troop Carrier Squadron Red Devils 1953 - 1954 is interested. I soon will have available copies of a squadron picture with all of the squadron below and standing on top of one of our c-119 aircraft. The picture will also have a copy of the squadron patch.

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Charlie Linderman info

Comments: Re: Charlie Linderman. I served with Charlie while with the 50th TC Sq in Japan. Have photos that I would be happy to share. I worked in the orderly room - with Don (Hocky) Hockinson, Dallas Stoltenberg, and others. Your dad probably wouldn't remember me. Wayne Tesmer

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Red Devils

Comments: I am wife of H.E. (Strick) Strickland... who, as I've said in an earlier entry, is now deceased...This is my second entry...I continue to research Strick's life for my "memoirs"...Actually, I've located several of his "buddies" and am in contact with them regularly...They all seem to enjoy the memories! I continue to gain respect for all of you about whom I am writing. I am beginning to wonder if you all truly are the last of a "special breed". Thanks for the opportunity to maybe contact another "RED DEVIL".

Frankie Strickland 07/02/05

Keywords: Red Devils/50th TCS/Ashiya, Japan/ late 1952- late 1953/C-119/

50TH TCS 'LINDY'

Comments: Mr Old Man is Lindy linderman, he was in the Ariel resupply section and served as a rigger and supply man. He served in the 50th TCS and has photos of himself standing next to the "Devil" at Ashiya. I have his scrapbook and there is a beautiful pic of the Squadron flying over Fujiama. He was later sent to Morrocco in the late 1970's and when he got off of the air liner there were some old abandoned red tailed C-119s pushed off the end of the runway. He went down and discovered that his aicraft from Japan was among the bunch. He recognized the tail number, and was stunned! There was a local morrocan family and their animals living in the aircraft Lindy is still alive and doing well, he lives in Enterprise< Alabama GO RED DEVILS !!

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about thinking

Comments: korea...war....like all wars are useless...after 3years of kill or be killed...trapped men..still wandering the hills of the north their spirits/ghosts waiting to come home so they could all buy electronic equipment computers...autos...and cheap wear for wal-mart etc....made in china...next stop iraq...

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50TH TC SQ

Comments: Looking for anyone who served with my Dad at Ashiya, Japan from Nov '51 to June '52. His aircraft was a C-119 named Rebel Devil. His name was Bill Higbee.

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observing the passing scene

Comments: kimpo k16 sept 1950.....on approach to the darken airfield with the flashes of gunfire glowing in the distant similar to the four of july firworks display we were cleared to land on the runway by someone other then air traffic control..in we went,holding at the end of the runway wondering what was going on..since the plane was loaded with ammo and oil drums and the field was still not entirely secure..we taxied to the end of the runway a marine came running up and suggested we unload and turn around asfast as we canincoming mortars attack fired by the retreating north koreans...unloading as fast as we could just dumping the material out the door of the aircraft..proceeded to get out of the situation that i never wanted...off we went and another lucky escape...patrick engle kimpo sept 1950 leave iit to marines couldn't do much with my 45 sidearm that had a rusted barrel...anyway

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36th & 37th TC Squadrons, Sewart AFB, 1951-55

Comments: Looking for members of the 36th & 37th Troop Carrier Squadrons, stationed at Sewart AFB, TN, 1951-55. See our webpage at geocities.com/donatsewart/homesewart.html concerning our annual reunion. Also looking for airmen who completed basic training at Sewart attached to the 36th TC Squadron in 1951.

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C-119 colors

Comments: I am looking for color pics of C-119's that served with the squadron in Korea.

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new address

Comments: Change of E-mail address

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50TH T.C.S. RED DEVILS

Comments: I am "Strick's" wife. He died in 1994. I am trying to write his biography and the very important details of the men involved in the Korean War. I am particularly seeking information onthefollowing: Thomas Weingarten - student officer at Reese AFB in '51('51H) also stationed at Donaldson AFB ('53 or '54) Flying C-119's Theodore Boluch - Cadet at Reese AFB ('51H) Please, if anyone has any info., please, plese contact me.

Keywords: Cadet training -Randolph Field ('50), Adv. training - Reese AFB ('51H), 435th Troop carrier Wing, Miami International Air Port ('52), Ashiya, Japan ('52-'53-C-119's), Donaldson AFB, Greenville, S.C.('53-'54 - still C-119's), Lawson AFB, Columbus, Georgia released from active duty:14 Dec.1954. A member 50th T.C.S. RED DEVILS.

Mike Scarpa 50th TCS Ashiya '52-'55

Comments: Looking for fellows who remember my dad. I've gotlots of pics of base, planes, dad in cowling of 119. Please reply directly. Thank you.

Keywords: Red Devils Ashiya AFB '52-'55