25th Ftr Intrcptr Sqdn K-13 Korea

Comments: 25th Ftr Interceptor Squadron K-13 Korea 1953

OPS Offcier Capt Bill Ginn

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My father was Salvatore DeMaio

Comments: I ahve been looking for people who may have known my Dad. I have many pictures of that time he spent there but have no idea who they are in the pictures.I think the base was located in Naha, okinawa. Hoping that someone may known something that would help me.

Keywords: His friends would have known him by calling him Salvy. He served in korea from 1953 to 1955, in the 51st Fighter wing, Fire Station. Rank was Sargent

51st Food Service Sqdn 52-53

Comments: Would like to chat with anyone who remembers me. I have forgotten names.

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Staff/Sgt Bud Bishop

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Keywords: SGT Bud Bishop Jet mechanic 51st Fighter Wing Okinawa and Korea 1950. He was my best friend since 7th grade. We enlisted in the AF together in 1948 from Medford,Oregon. He passed away May 29th 2009. He was a fine man and was proud of his service to his country. The USAF 51st Fighter Wing. He will be missed by all that knew him.

Bill McKinney, Commander of KWVA CA Chapter no 1

Hello, I flew in this fighter group!

Comments: I would love to hear from anyone in this group! Walt Zisette

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Comments: Hello all, I am the son of Robert Young (Red) who was a member of the 51st in Korea about 1950-1951. Just a brief note to anyone who knew him that he passed away a year ago on 5-21-2007. He was very proud of his time in the service and was wondering if anyone out there knew him ...Thanks

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looking for any who remember Cornelius(Neil)Scott shot down1951 MIA declared DIA 52

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51st air police sq.

Comments: I remember a Macmillan, a Nunnley, a Zeglar, a Hobbs, and a Ruben Robertson, any of you guys out there?

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suwon, aug 1952 - jul 1953

Comments: was buck sergeant (a-1c)51st wing intelligence section from aug 1952 till early july 1953.went to yokohama on usns haase, returned to seattle via adak, alaska, on the usns freeman. was in wg ops the day boston redsox star ted williams bellied his usmc pantherjet in at k-13. also was wing c.q. the night the c47 with wounded was slammed into by the f-94 from the 319th interceptor sq taking off on a night mission. those were the days, probably the high point of my life. i guess most of those guys are gone now, or old fools like me at 73 years of age. glad to to hear from anyone that i served with.

Keywords: "pat", best buddies, "red dog",roper,"fearless",krock, moyer.

Buzz Aldrin's F-86 Markings

Comments: I volunteer for the Buzz Aldrin Science Center/NJAA Observatory (www.njaa.org) in Glen Gardner, NJ. Our org is updating Buzz's display from just his Apollo 11 journey to his whole life. We're planning on making models of the jets he flew during and after Korea, and are looking for images and/or descriptions of the markings of his F86 and F100 fighters. I've been searching online for a while now to no avail. Also, does anyone know what version of F86 Buzz flew? Thanks in advance for any help any of you could provide.

Keywords: Buzz Aldrin, F-86, Sabre, Plane Markings

Do you know my father?

Comments: I am looking for anyone who knows my father and served with him during the war. His name is James K. Robinson. I am trying to find guys who know him and would like to contact him again. Please let me know and thank you for all you did for us. Stacey

Keywords: 51st. Fighter intersepter wing and the 25th fighter squadren in the Air Force from 1952-1953

53-54

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51st Medical Group

Comments: Looking for information about 51st Medical Group stationed at Suwon Korea during 1951-52.

Keywords: Suwon, 1951-52

Info on Bill Creech

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Keywords: I'm interested in information about Bill Creech. I'd like to know where he was when he was cut-off behind Chinese lines as a Forward Air Controller; I'd like the name of his driver who was with him and anything else on his service. The information is for an article for Air Force Magazine. Thanks so much.

Tsuiki Japan 53 to 54.

Comments: Run with guys in the shop and a crew from the parachute shop. Guys I remember--Bob Duda,Faber Potts and Drevet.

Keywords: REMCO Weld shop.

Comments: Hi, I am a cousin of a Korean Vet, Robert K. Lockhart. Bob was a supply type during the Korean War, an E4 or E5. He was with the 51st FW at Osan when the base was over run. He made it out okay, later commissioned through OTS. Then left the AF for personal reasons. Bob passed away this past October of Heart Failure in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Craig D. Porter, MSgt USAF Retired

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reunions

Comments: interested in any reunions of th 51si FIW and/or the 39th FIS.

Keywords: 39th cobra sqd jan 1953 - dec 1953 armament f86s col.ruddel, maj bolt crew chief 86 wepons harminization range

Thank You

Comments: A very sincere thank you and Happy New Year to all those men and women of the 51st FIW who served at Yokota Air Base in the 50's. I can't tell you how welcome the sight of an F-86 is out off your wing tip. Coming home from a recon mission out over the Sea of Japan in an unarmed RB-29 was a lot more relaxed when we spotted you. It doesen't make a difference what job you had, but in keeping 'EM FLYING you did a supurb job. John Hampton, USAF 1952-59

Keywords: RB-29 aircrew (2nd photographer)

'KOREA--TWO GENERATIONS IN COUNTRY

Comments: “Korea--Two generations in country”

I did my time in Korea, in 1983. It wasn’t really a hardship; I had my wife Dawn with me. We were both in the Air Force doing a one-year remote on the ROK. You spend a lot of time checking the calendar and watching the clock.

“I want to go state-side”; I just want to go home. But it wasn’t really so bad and if we were lonely, we got on the phone. We could call the family in the “states” any time day or night. The mail came twice every day, and you could always write.

We got there in January and could not believe it was so cold. Come summer it was so hot, the weather was very hard on the sick and old. But there was no war and no one was getting shot in the middle of the night. Now what about my father-in-law in 1952 and his combat plight.

John Rausch was an Infantry soldier positioned on what became the DMZ. There, with his recoilless rifle, watching the north, what would he see? The enemy trying to kill him, coming south every night, Serve his country, stay alive and get home, this was his personal fight.

John was unhappy when my wife told him we were headed to Osan Air Base. He could only remember the cold and the fighting, what a miserable place. Friends he had shipped over to Korea with were never to come back. Now his daughter was going to Korea, all he could remember was that bloody nightly attack.

Our tour in Korea involved a lot of training exercises and shopping down in the vil. John’s tour was living in a sandbag bunker, on a treeless windswept hill. We ate our meals in the Officer’s club almost every night. He ate his combat rations, in the cold rain, under a poncho by a single candlelight.

We drove my pick-up truck on a four-lane highway called a Military Supply Route. John walked on muddy or frozen trails, everyday until he was finally shipped out. We came home to an airport full of excited family, waiting with bated breath. John came home to the knowledge, of his sister’s recent illness and death.

We would drive up to Seoul, to the Embassy Club for a dinner of steak. He would fight the elements of the night, to stay alive; he had to stay awake. We had a house girl to look after us and clean up our mess. John had a Korean soldier assigned to him, who suffered like the rest.

Our war was the Gulf War, fought on TV every night. John’s war, Korea, was fought away from the public’s sight. America thought we were wonderful freeing those poor people in the sand. John got home in the middle of the night, minus the Army Brass Band.

As a nation, we just wanted to forget about Korea, that “Crazy Asian War.” We just wanted to get on with the good life, sugar and gas rationing--no more. This nation had already done its best in World War II. Now they were fighting in a forsaken country, out of sight, out of view.

John hardly had any contact with his family while engaged in those cold & bloody fights. We on the other hand, brought over a large part of our family to Korea, to shop and see the sights. They road the luxury trains of Korea from Seoul in the north to Pusan in the south. John was in his sandbag bunker, living hand to mouth.

For my wife and I, our time in Korea was not unpleasant to say the least. We worked hard, ate & slept well and went head to head with that “shopping Beast.” John earned a Combat Infantry Badge and got out of Korea with his life. He got back home to Minnesota and married his future wife.

For, two family generations in the military, Korea means different things. One, it means fighting for your country and the horrors that war brings. For the other and her husband is was a short stop in a promising military career. But for both, the thoughts, good and bad of Korea were always near.

Korea has had a major impact on our family’s life. But I am glad I did my time there, in relative peace with my military wife. Our daughter is young and I don’t like what I see happening on that Asian shore. She wants to join the Air Force, but I would like to see her generation stay out of another Korean War.

Major Van Harl USAF Ret., 2 August 2003 Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM vanharl@aol.com

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ABG 51-52

Comments: Looking for contact from old friends who knew me as Junior or Juniorsan, I personaly knew Col Francis Gabreski (I was a temporary staff Vehicle driver. Plus Many others serving in 1951 & 1952.

Keywords: J. Donald Fee, 51st AB Group, Suwon K-13 Korea 51st Fighter Wing 1951-1952

51st fighter interceptor wing

Comments: who has a listing on the 51st fighter interceptor wing about a fire. This is the 51st fighter web page heading of the "koreanwar project" "it reads The night the chapel burned to the ground." Where can i find Les

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Poem

Comments: We buried another veteran today.

We buried another veteran today. He went to his God, from us, he went away. This one was young, in the prime of his life. He left twin children and a very courageous wife.

It wasn’t a bullet, a plane crash or a bomb. It was cancer, and he just finally, could not hold on. He fought “it” like a military campaign. But the time came to surrender, to end his earthly pain.

He knew he would be fine in the presence of his Lord. But what about his twins, those children he adored? Will they grow strong and at “life” win. Please God, let them always remember him.

We buried another veteran today. It seems, all my life, it has happened this way. From my uncles of the WW II-time frame. To the military friends, Vietnam would claim.

For me the number of dead, is always on the rise. When I get a call another veteran is gone, it is never really a surprise. From lost sub-mariners, in early days of my life. To the forever gone, military-medical friends of my veteran wife.

I lost a Korean War veteran friend this year, to a crashed airplane. I lost a Gulf War friend to cancer, a difference in their age, but still that pain. I lost an Uncle to cancer who did Korea with the Navy, steaming off shores. I lost my father-in-law who fought in Korea, from a “fox-hole” in the frozen outdoors.

We buried another Veteran today. It seems in all my family’s generations, it happens this way. From my Revolutionary War Grandfathers who started this sad, but needed trend. To the family members on both sides in 1861, who just would not bend.

Some of my family lived a long and happy life, after “their” war. They died of old age in their bed, safe-behind a locked door. They died in battle, buried where they fell. They died years later, carrying emotional scars, in their own personal hell.

My family is no different than thousands who met our Nation’s call. They rose to the demands of this country and some gave their “all”. We have to continue doing this, to make America free. But, it’s that Veteran’s twin-little children that keeps worrying me.

We buried another Veteran today. It seems all my life it continues this way. Now my only child is nine and we reside on a military installation. My wife and I truly want her to live safe, in a free nation.

But what happens, when it is her-generation’s turn to make a stand. Do we lose our only child in some forsaken-foreign land? Does she play it safe, stay home and say “that’s boy’s stuff”. Or does she join like her mother and go right into the ruff.

She has to be that one Veteran I don’t see, make that final “call”. Let me go before her, let me first give this country my fighting “all”. Maybe if I go “out-there” and make my final stand. She can stay safe-at-home, in this wonderful free land.

We buried another Veteran today.

Major Van Harl, USAF Ret. Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, 28 November 2001 vanharl@aol.com

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16th Operations-Suwon

Comments: I have a picture of a group standing with my brother-in-law, Lt. Rafael Du Breuil, in front of the 16th opeations-Suwon building in 1951. would like to hear from anyone of these men. Streb, Weaver, Pizzofferato, Stanfield, Forrester. Ray was listed MIA Nov. 27, 1951. Thanks. John

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Lt. Rafael Anthony Du Breuil - MIA

Comments: I am looking for any information concerning my brother-in-law,Lt. Rafael Du Breuil, either with the 51st or with the 36th F/B, MIA on Nov. 27, 1951

Keywords: Ray Du Breuil, Lt. Must have flown with the 51st Fighter-Intercepter Group, later flew with the 36th F/B Squadron, 8th F/B group in 1951