Johnson AFB 6920thAug52,Misawa Jul54

Comments: I remember from Jan 53 until the Spring it snowed or rained everyday. TheSwimming season was from Aug 1st until the 7th, when the water was still too cold. the 1st lived up to its name in sports, winning all the sporting events and having champion boxers(2). Captain Plyler(Oklahoma?) told his illustrious war stories of Chenault's flying Tigers flying both Chang Kai Shek and Mao to wage a common war against the Japanese. The snow didn't get too high at Wakainai in '53-54, but I read where it set records the following year.

I remember S/Maj Benny Hom was a WWII Veteran, And there were two CO's during my period there, Col Brady and Col. Shepard. Sgt Hale had a short tour, and one man who was left Multi-millions and went home to settle the estate.

The Softball Season was played in cold and wind, atfields just West of the Barracks, specifically the Tin Quonset Huts,, that weren't really that.

Richard Roth, was in Personnel, Villeneuve 20370 and Major White and Madole in Ops.

Good memoraries all.

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BILLY KIRKPATRICK 1953-1955

Comments: Looking for Dick Orpeza tenor sax player- Shiroi Airforce base Japan 1954

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Comments: I was assigned to the 6925th RSM, Clark AB PI from Jul 58 - 15 Sep 61. Retired 1 Aug 79 and taught at the Morse Intercept School from Jul 82 - Oct 86 One of my students (Damien Giess) was assigned to Masawa in the early 80s. Came back to states and also taught in the school. If any one knows him or his whereabouts please have him contact me.

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Comments: Anybody know any of the above? Anyone have any stories to tell?

Loved the snorkeling trips along the coast,East of the 34th, where we charcoal broiled steaks, drank beer, swam and snorkled in the pristine Medterranean waters. Remember catching small squids on one trip. We thought we were all alone on a remote stretch of beach when out of nowhere 3 "gooks", (Libyan arabs) showed up. We gave them the squid and some fish we had caught - including a small sting ray. They couldn't have been happier. The Arbolete Spear Gun, was the gun of choice in those days and a good one for its time.

Ken Higgins made a 10 ft steel rod spear and brought it along on one of our trips. He speared what he thought was a small sting ray buried under the sand, the thing took off, like a shot out of a gun, jerked the spear and line out of Ken's hands - it was a big one with about 6-8 foot wing span. Couldn't believe what we saw.

We often piled into Gary Bros' Morris Minor convertible with the big Italian Fiat Truck Horn -- he loved to watch the arabs scatter when he let out a blast - they wouldn't pay attention to puny car horns and you had to slow down or stop before going around them. The truck horn scared them silly. Trucks didn't slow down for anyone or anything.

Had many a good time in the outdoor Bier Garten, and at the beer tent toward down the road where the F-86 guys from Fuerst and Feldbruck(sp?)holed up during target training out over the Mediterranean. Lots of great memories from an interesting era in our history.

Cheers! Paul

Keywords: Friends: Gary Bros, MN; Ken Higgins, TX; Ralph Forrey, CA;

WAKKANAI , JAPAN -'52 TO '54

Comments: Would like to hear from others there at sme time

Keywords: 20330 at Wakkanai from Fall of 52 till Spring of 54.

Brooks 8th RSM contact

Comments: Hello - USAF 1950-1954 - I'm looking for any contact from anyone who was at Brooks AFB 1952-1954. I was a Radio Intercept Instructor stationed at Brooks and thus didn't go overseas. I did basic at Lackland, radio intercept at Keesler and ended a Brooks as instructor. I also sang at Brooks with the (get this) "Security Starduster" dance band sponsord by Colonel Towler. I sang at Fort Sam Houston with the 4th Army Band and did the weekly radio show for the Armed Forces. I used the name "Ray Marco" Any old buddies around? Please contact me. Ray

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26th RSM March AFB, CA

Comments: Any one out there who was assigned to 26th RSM, March AFB, CA. New Operations Building, Mess, and Barracks up on hill west of March.

Keywords: 2nd RSM 50-53, 8th RSM 53, 26th RSM March AFB 54-56.

Det 11, 1st RSM 52-54

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Missawa/wakkanai/Okushiroshima

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USAFSS

Comments: Keesler AFB, Radio School 1949, 2nd RSM 1950-1952, Hill AFB 1953-1957, 6981st RGM 1957-1969 - Yep, I homesteaded there. :-) Retired AF Nov 1969. Still in Alaska. Would like to chat with anyone that served with me and knows my ugly butt.

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usafss

Comments: Seved in Landsberg,Weisbaden,Frankfort dring 51-53. Looking for anyone who knew Richard Chernow in 34th RSM (51-52)

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Security Service veterans

Comments: Anyone know of a similar group that covers Security Service personnel post-Korea? I served in Japan from 1957 thru 1961, and am looking for old budies who served with me. Thanks,

JG

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USAFSS

Comments: Entered AF and took basic at Lackland AFB March-April 1951. Sq 3705 Flight 974 Assigned to USFSS at Brooks AFB for only a few days. Shipped to F.E.Warren AFB (Wyo) for teletype school May-June 1951. Back to Brooks AFB as a casual airman in 6923 Personell Processing Squadron. Shipped to Scott Field (Belleville IL) for Cryptography school (Oct-Nov) 1951. Reported back to Brooks and thence to Great Falls AFB (Mont) for a few days to draw cold weather clothing for assignment to the 3rd RSM, Elmendorf AFB Alaska Jan-Mar 1952. In March 1952 I was shipped to Adak, Alaska with the 3rd RSM det 31(?) as a cryptographic operator. In March 1953 I was assigned to Bolling AFB in Wash. D.C., My squadron was billeted at Suitland Hall in Suitland MD and I was assigned cryptographic duties at Arlington Hall Station in Arlington, VA. I completed my tour of duty in the AF at Bolling and was discharged in Mar 1955 And returned to my home in Tennessee. I also spent approximately 1 month in a school at 14th and "U" street in Wash D.C. prior to my assignment to Arlington Hall Station. Any chance our paths ever crossed?

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1st RSM Reunion

Comments: 1st RSM and affiliated detachments and flights will hold our 4th reunion in Dayton,Ohio and visit the Air force Museum and Korean war memorial in August 2003. Our last reunion was held in Biloxi, Miss. this past August. Contact me and I will add you to our members list and send you a copy of our latest newsletter.

Philip Perry !st RSM newsletter editor and reunion coordinator

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6922nd RGM

Comments: Jan'56-Sep.'57 At Yale, IFEL, Korean. Dec. '57 -Jan'58 at Pang Yang Do and K-14 flying in Goonies for Blue Sky. Now retired government lawyer. Bill M.

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6922nd RGM 1956-1959

Comments: My name is: Frank Hogan, I currently reside in Mitchellville, MD; a suburb of Washington, DC frank1@hogansolutions.com 301 456-8369

1954 Attended basic training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas;

Communications at F.E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming; and

Cryptographic School at Scott Field Ill.

1955 - First duty station, AF HQS Communications, Pentagon, Washington, DC.

1956 – 1959 Second Duty Station(s) overseas as an Airman First Class,

Cryptographic Specialist in the 6922nd Radio Group Mobile

AF Security Service, Special Security Office, Ashia AFB, and Itazuke AFB Japan.

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who remembers the good times, especially at the Blue Room.

I flew the C-47 "Blue Sky" aircraft on reconnaissance, a couple of time, but spent most of that era doing Special Security Office performing cryptographic functions.

I am looking for some old friends that were stationed with me 6922nd Radio Group Mobile (working out of Itazuke AFB and Ashia AFB.

I also in the Special Service and played football for two years with the Itazuke Greenwaves.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who remembers the good times, especially at the Blue Room.

I would love to be informed of the next 6922nd reunion.

Discharged at Travis AFB Ca 1959. Retire Federal Government, working as acivilain US Army for 20 years. Frank Hogan

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USAFSS, 10 YEARS '51-'61

Comments: Basic at Sampson 11/51-1/52,37th Comm.Ga.F.E.Warren Wyo.Brooks Texas,Burtonwood.UK, Hanscom Field,Shiroi AFB,Japan,Fuchu Air Station Japan,Discharged Travis AFB Ca.1961...Most Assignments with USAFSS..Would enjoy hearing from anyone who remembers the good times...

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1st Radio Squadron Mobile

Comments: Arrived at Johnson air base in April 1951, moved to Misawa AB in January 1953. Would enjoy hearing from anyone who served with me.

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Postwar USAFSS; Air Force One

Comments: I was an Air Force Security Service voice intercept specialist (Korean language) in Korea 1958-60. I was in class K-9-10 at Monterey and served at Osan Air Base, having arrived too late to be assigned to P-Y-do.I flew the C-47 "Blue Sky" aircraft on reconnaissance, but spent most of that era doing voice intercept work on the ground. All these years later, with a lot of my life behind me, I'm now the author of a book on a different Air Force topic. I'm very proud of it......

Friends are asking about my book "AIR FORCE ONE".....

The publisher wrote this (below):

Air Force One is the aircraft that carries President George W. Bush. "Air Force One," published by MBI on August 10, is the book that pushes aside the curtain of secrecy to give a no-holds-barred look at the president's plane, presidential travel, and its meaning to a nation now at war......

Before September 11, 2001, the blue and white Boeing 747-200, or VC-25A, was celebrated for its beauty as it whisked the chief executive to fundraisers and ribbon cuttings. An Air Force officer called the plane a "cruise ship," comparing its luxurious accommodations to an upscale seafaring vessel. Another called Air Force One, "a symbol of a great nation constantly on the move.".....

The terror attacks changed all that. The public learned that Air Force One is a military aircraft. The book begins with the zigzag path followed by Air Force One---and its fighter escort---during hectic moments of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Why did the aircraft take Bush from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska, and only belatedly back to Washington? Why did officials believe that Air Force One itself was an intended target? Why did officials dust off a supersecret plan for continuity of government, disclosed in this book, that had been designed for nuclear war?.....

Author Dorr, Air Force veteran, diplomat, and columnist for Air Force Times, gives a nuts-and-bolts tour of Air Force One.....

Dorr grew up near Andrews Air Force Base, home of Air Force One, and has visited the base for 50 years. He received help from the base and from scholars and historians......

"Air Force One" is as much a part of today as this morning's headlines, but the book is also a history of presidential air travel. We learn of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Flying White House," a C-54 Skymaster modified with a special hoist to accommodate FDR's wheelchair. We see Harry S. Truman signing national security legislation aboard his C-118, the Independence, a little-publicized presidential aircraft. We follow the travels of presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan, including November 1963 when Air Force One broug

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My Japan Tour

Comments: I went over to Japan in the USAFSS in 1953 first to Ashia AFB then to Misawa AFB in 1953 theto Detachemt 26 Nemuro Hokkaido japan. There I stayed for 27 months leaving Numuro Aug 1957.

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dads friends

Comments: if anyone was in korea between 76 and 79 let me know

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6920th Security Group, Johnson AFB, Shiroi AFB 1952-54

Comments: Looking for TA buddies I served with at Johnson AFB, and later at Shiroi, when group moved there. Timeframe Nov 52-Nov 54. Bill Cannon (climbing Mt. Fuji), Tom Orchard, Johnny Norwood, Bruce Huber, living in the Quonsits, earthquakes, playing basketball against RSM teams at Ashiya and Misawa and slow-pitch softball. Flying "Boxcars" from Tachikawa, C-47's to Wakanai amid the snowdrifts.

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6903 Security Squardron

Comments: Entry Controller on C Flight 1975 - 1976

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e-mail update

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1st RSM '51-53 Johnson AFB

Comments: I arrived at Johnson AFB in July or August of 1951. Intercept operator. Moved to Niigata about March 52, then to Clark AFB in early 53.

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6922 nd rsm pyong yang do 1955/56

Comments: Would love to hear from some of the old croud. Maybe a reunion!! Whatever,

Dick Hussey

Keywords: Friends: Joe Weed, Ken Schwartz, Rick Richardson, Al Kersey, John Cushman, John Potter, Kim Pil Yung, Lt. Miller, Bill Warriner and many more.

Comments: 6903 SCTY SQ - 1970 TO 1971

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2ND RADIO SQDN MOBILE 49-50

Comments: ARE THERE ANY OF THE 105 GUYS THAT WERE TRANSFERED WITH ME STILL OUT THERE. ARE THERE ANY OF TECH WEST'S REJECTS READING THIS. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

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1ST RADIO SQDN MOBILE

Comments: I was assigned to 1st RSM Misawa and Flt. "A" at Niigata from 8/53 - 12/54.. Was a 29250..Anyone around that was there during this time frame, email me at ledonahue@earthlink.net

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12th RSM & 85th RSM Germany 1954-57

Comments: Played baseball on the Landsberg base team. Anyone remember Jack Pressley, Robert A. Jones, Dick Wakefield, Robert Ireland, David Deen.

I visited Landsberg a few years ago. The town Square still looks the same. All buildings (At least facades) still looked the same. The Gogle has been remodeled and is now a very expensive Hotel. The Goggle is still across the street. The Ziederbru is still pink.

Would enjoy hearing from anyone serving in these units 51-54.

Keywords: Nickname Andy, Cryptography , 12 RSM Landsberg 51-53, Johnny Cash , Detachment 85 Kaufburen 85th RSM Sembach 53-54

Info

Comments: Looking for information about my father Clarence Eugene Coffman. Thank you for any help you can provide.

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1st RSM, 8th RSM

Comments: Was in Japan & Korea 1950 to Dec 1953 in the 1st RSM and 8th Fighter Wing.

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USAFSS Memories

Comments: Served in USAFSS from 1958 thru 1966. Yale University IFEL 1958 and 1960, Korea 1959-60, Bangkok 1960, Taiwan (SHULINKO)1962-64, Goodfellow AFB, 1964-66. Commissioned 2nd Lt 1968, Retired 1982, last tour as Asst Professor of Computer Science: Air Force Academy.

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Wake Island

Comments: Served on Wake Island late 1955 then on to Okinawa thru 1956. Small radio detachment on classified mission. Like to locate S/Sgt. Jim Lammers from Wake detachment. Our unit received an AF Outstanding Unit Award for our work.

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6921ST/MISAWA/WAKKANAI 53-56

Comments: SPENT 26 MONTHS IN MISAWA, BUT UNFORTUNATLY DOCUMENTS AND PICTURES LOST IN FLOOD AFTER RETURNING TO STATE. PICTURES WOULD HAVE BROUGHT BACK MANY NAMES AND MEMORIES, BUT NO LONGER HAVE THEM. ANY INFO WOULD BE HELPFUL.

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!st Radio Detachment 26, Nemuro, Japan

Comments: Looking for friends stationed at Nemuro during 1954-1957

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15TH RSM - 6922ND RSM ASHIYA

Comments: I am looking for some old friends that were stationed with me at Keesler AFB, the 8th RSM, Brooks and Kelly AFB, then on to the 15th RSM in Ashiya and Korea from 1952-1956. I would like to find Billy W. Stofle (TX), Glen D. Fortenberry(?), Brady E. McCoy (TX) 1rst RSM, Richard D. Kennon (VA). I served in radio and high speed communications. I would greatly appreciate any where-abouts of these friends or anyone who remembers me. Our 15th-6922nd RSM (1951-1958), has a yearly reunion held in different sections of the USA each year, this year 2002, the reunion will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC. We have three 15th RSM veterans here in MB who will be putting this reunion together.

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Det 3 29th RSM

Comments: Would like to get in touch with anyone from det 3 29th rsm who was in linkow when outfit first started up please email me

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6921st RGM Misawa 1958-1959

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6400 Air Police Sq, 1952-1954

Comments: would like to get in contact with anyone who was in the 6400 Air Police Sq., Tachikawa, Japan between-1952 and 1954.

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Members 3904th Air Police Squadron

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Served 1St. Radio at Johnson & Niigata 1952 to 1954

Comments: I have seen only two that I remember: Robert McNabb & Ronald Schultz. What Happened to the business you and Sam Gromes were about to enter into in Tokyo Robert?

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1st Radio Squadron Mobile 1952-54

Comments: I served in 1st Radio Squadron Mobile at Johnson AB and Misawa AB from January 1952 to April 1954.

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34th RSM

Comments: Served as a CW intercept operator 34th RSM, Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya 1953-54, 26th RSM, March AFB 1954-55, Instructor (Basic/Intermediate Code), Keesler AFB 1955-56. Any one out there left from those times?

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USAFSS 6922 RGM, Det. 2

Comments: Love to hear from anyone that was there during that time.

Keywords: Pyang Yang Do, Korea, 1957-1958 Chinese Linguist

usaf 6922nd rgm ashiya japan

Comments: would like to get in touch with anyone serving with 6922 rgm Ashiya Japan 1957/1958

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6921 Radio Group Mobile USAF

Comments: 1956- Army Language School R-6-41. Assigned to 6921 RGM in Misawa, Japan 1957-1959 and 6988 RSM at Yakota Air Base from 1959-1960, crew member on B-50 during last year.

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Reunion

Comments: Also any former members that have not been contacted by members of the 15th RSM contact me and Ill get you in touch with the right people to inform you on who to contact for more information about reunions and etc. Thanks

Keywords: The 15th RSM will be holding its 6th reunion at Dayton Ohio Sept 9th Thru 11. anyone intrested may contact me at above e-mail or snale male addresses.

1st RSM - Johnson AFB '51- '3

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Wakkanai 56 - 57

Comments: Vic was 203 at Wakkanai May 57 - Nov 47.

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