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Entry Name	Last Message
CHARLES CHRISTIAN	June 25, 2017
HARRY FANNING	July 19, 2015
DAVID CROCKETT	March 18, 2015
DAVID JR	March 18, 2015
BUD MUNRO	August 24, 2014
DON VANN	August 8, 2014
ROWAN RAFTERY	July 14, 2014
JIM SPROLE	February 23, 2014
DONALD MARSHALL	October 10, 2013
JOE P. PATTERSON	September 17, 2006
JOE P. PATTERSON	September 17, 2006
BERRY ROSE	June 20, 2005
JOHN MALETTA	March 18, 2005
JOHN MALETTA	March 18, 2005
CHARLES PALERMO	March 8, 2005
HERB RUDOLPH	August 2, 2003
HERB RUDOLPH	August 2, 2003
C.O. SMITH	November 12, 2002
C.O. SMITH	November 12, 2002
ANDY JACKSON	November 12, 2002
JIM MARTIN	October 15, 2002
RICHARD A. (DICK) PROULX	March 13, 2002

Entry: 7268

CAMP STONEMAN

CHARLES CHRISTIAN wrote on June 25, 2017

Redding CA

Comments:

Checked into the replacement depot at Hickman 1 April
1950. It had been moved the day before and the next day
they bussed me over. 5 of us from tech school waited 6
weeks before one of us went to the Sgt doing the
assignments to see why we were still there. He said we all
shipped out two weeks before to Japan and no matter where
it was going we would be on the next leaving. Alaska.

Overage in our MOS until the war started and then we were
understaffed in the signal center due to the high volume of
traffic.

Entry: 6816

CAMP STONEMAN

HARRY FANNING wrote on July 19, 2015

Kaneohe Hawaii

Comments:

I am curious was EVIL stands for. Each letter must have a
word. I had no idea where I was headed. I arrived at Camp
Stoneman May 12, 1952 and left on the ferry Yerba Buena
June 6, 1952 and boarded the Gen Pope a merchant marine
ship. We had to stand when eating. The next mornig the
ship was in huge waves and howling winds with service men
throwing up all over the place. I refrained from eating and
did not poop for 13 days until I arrived by train in Iwakuni
and a few days later via C-54 arrived at K-2 near Taegu. The
train ride through Japan was through small towns & beautiful
green mountains. I had no idea where I was headed and after
flying over water and brown country side landed and upon
debarking I asked a bystander where am I to his reply Korea.
Korea today by the way is a beautiful verdant country to
which I have returned 6 times 3 of which at the expense
mostly of the Korean government on their sponsered trips.
I learned quickly at Stoneman to stand at the rear of the
few thousand men grouped waiting to be divided up into
chores to move quickly and did the same on the return home
ride on the General Mann and avoided them. If any of you
know the military term EVIL please let me know. I enjoyed
my 3 R&Rs & am happy to return home safely. I have photos
and am willing to share. aloha, Harry Ps, Trained at
Sampson AFB flight 180 and 205, permanent party and bus to
Stoneman. Discharge Davis-Monthan AFB Jan. 1955. Attended
Un. Arizona, met bride UA from Hawaii and now here 60 yrs.
and member KWVA

Entry: 6738

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DAVID CROCKETT wrote on March 18, 2015

San Marcos CA

Comments:

DAVID JR above is incorrect and should read David A.
Crockett, Jr. who usually went by Dave while serving four
years in the Air Force, three if which was in Tokyo at
Headquarters, FEAF.

Entry: 6737

CAMP STONEMAN

DAVID JR wrote on March 18, 2015

Lake San Marcos California

Comments:

After taking a 30 day delay enroute at Bass Lake, just
outside Yosemite, to my new assignment in the Far East as
unassigned I reported Camp Stoneman, where to my best
Avenal High School friends, Terry Gillespie, was a
permanent party NCO who got me a pass to join him and his
wife Lucille Rhoe at their Berkeley Apartment where much
to my delight my girl friend, Lillian Hollister, a Miss
California contestant from Fresno was also there to join
us in dinner and who became my fiancee before I sailed to
Yokohama the next day first on an APA from Oakland to San
Diego and then another APA from San Diego to Yokohama. In
Tokyo as an Intelligence Specialist I was assigned to Hq,
FEAF Intelligence Library at first, then Evasion & Escape
and finally as NCOIC of Supplemental Research working
with AF Security Service & the CIA until returning home
with my wife for my discharge the summer of 1954 to
return to Fresno State to earn a degree in Journalism and
then take in job in management with The Travelers Ins Co.

Entry: 6625

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BUD MUNRO wrote on August 24, 2014

Garden city Ny

Comments:

We arrived and shipped outi to Korea in July '53 and were sent back when
we returned with the Stats colors and went around in circles on our ship for
three days because the governor was on vacation . When we landed and
refused to march down Market St with the 'color' they put us on buses and
trucks to Stoneman which had closed when we first left! Three days of our
due time because a guy couldn't leave his vacation - no way joe!

Entry: 6621

CAMP STONEMAN

DON VANN wrote on August 8, 2014

Las Vegas NV

Comments:

Iwas in the 2354 Pers proc Sq as perm party. I was the Casual Pay Roll
Clerk.Retired as Chief MSgt with 26 years service. Played basketball on the
Sq team. Many good times at Stoneman & Bay area. Had asgmts in Far East
& Europe. Comrades are welcome to contact me,but hurry cause times
running out.10-4.Don.

Entry: 6598

CAMP STONEMAN

ROWAN RAFTERY wrote on July 14, 2014

Bridgeton Missouri

Comments:

Reassigned from Geiger AFB Spokane to Stoneman for Far East
assignment. Was Ordely Room Senior while there. Arrived
late August, early September 1952. Visited a friend of a
friend who worked in the personnel shipping area. He
suggested I be sent to Tokyo and he also arranged for
airlift. Waited a month while arraignments were being
made. Was assigned to base hospital duty part time due to
may AFSC 70270. Was allowed to chow down there - best food
while in AF. Finally shipped out early morning around
Columbus Day from Travis AFB, Flew to Hawaii for refuel and
dinner. Next to Wake Island for breakfast, then on to
Tokyo. Was housed in FEAF Base directly across from the
emperors palace. Assigned to 6004th Air intelligence
Squadron in charge of typing pool until December 1953 when
Eisenhower riffed the military after Korean Armistice.
Boat back to states Day Before New Years - spent Christmas
of ocean watching fireworks. Very lonely.

Entry: 6519

CAMP STONEMAN

JIM SPROLE wrote on February 23, 2014

Baltimore Maryland

Comments:

When my CO at Walter Reed Hosp found out ( from the chaplain
)that I was underaged(15). He hurriedly had orders cut to
get rid of me. I arrived at Stoneman shortly thereafter and
remained for 45 days because my records couldn't keep up
with my speedy departure. I learned quickly to request from
departees their meal card so when hijacked for KP (they
would surround and capture a whole barracks full at 0430 and
take their meal cards ) On the march to the mess hall I
would drop out into the darkness and escape. 45 days gave me
a world of experience in escape and evasion. I shared my
knowledge with 2 others ( Lee and Lukachek ). We all made it
to Okinawa on the USNS Walker, and all returned ( a reunion
) on the USNS Patrick at the end of our tours. Good site - I
enjoyed it

Entry: 6418

CAMP STONEMAN

DONALD MARSHALL wrote on October 10, 2013

Seal Beach CA

Comments:

Arrived at Camp Stoneman Oct 17, 1951 for deployment to the
Far East. Mostly remember daily formations when they called
out those with shipping orders and then trying to duck out
on work details if you weren't called.

I shipped out bound for Okinawa on Nov 13, 1951, arriving at
Naha on Nov 29, 1951. Can anyone help refresh my memory and
give me the name of the troopship making that voyage?

Entry: 3888

CAMP STONEMAN

JOE P. PATTERSON wrote on September 17, 2006

Comments:

spent two weeks in early august 1952 at stoneman processing for duty in korea. in my 4 year airforce enlistment this was absolutely the worst two weeks of the entire hitch. i was, during my AF time, stationed in louisiana,montana,texas,korea,short time in japan, and basic training in both lackland and shepherd field,texas. camp stoneman was the bottom of the barrel including basic. i can truthfully say my hitch in the air force was for the most part, if not always enjoyable, was interesting, but that two weeks in stoneman in every way was the most miserable time of my life.

Entry: 3887

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JOE P. PATTERSON wrote on September 17, 2006

Comments:

Entry: 3060

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BERRY ROSE wrote on June 20, 2005

Comments:

Gosh how we put things out of our mind. I went thru that hell hole in I think September 1952. They gave me a stripe at Sampson and another at Francis E. Warrem AFB,
Wyoming another hell hole. Anyway true to form with you other guys my pay records with promotions were not there and it was months after being in Korea when they arrived. I did get back pay which I had to send home. Maybe they put us in those places in the States to prepare us for the honey bucket fertilized land of Korea. A buddy and me went from Danville, Virginia across country on a train to Camp Stoneman. I am glad it is not there anymore. Just bad memories.

Entry: 2903

CAMP STONEMAN

JOHN MALETTA wrote on March 18, 2005

Comments:

Noticed two errors in my previous posting. 'FeanCom' should be 'FeamCom' and '1856' should be '1956'. I wasn't around in 1856.

Entry: 2902

CAMP STONEMAN

JOHN MALETTA wrote on March 18, 2005

Comments:

I remember Camp Stoneman very well. Arrived there (late) in September 1950 and spent most of the time on pick up details and mess hall KP. Spent evenings in the camp beer hall and the rest of the time hiding out from the Permanent party guys looking for slave labor details. Best place to hide out was under the barracks. Shipped out with full field packs, carbines and pup tents on USNS General Daniel I Sultan on 12 October 1950. Arrived Yokohama on 25 October 1950. Uneventful cruise. Assigned to 13th Supply Sq. at FeanCom (Tachikawa) and later assigned to Yamada Ammo Depot near Camp Kokura in November 1951.

Later I was assigned to Itami AB in later 1856. Shipped out from Parks AFB via DC-6B.

Entry: 2881

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CHARLES PALERMO wrote on March 8, 2005

Comments:

i left edwards afb (where i'd played softball w/major chuck yeager) and arrived stoneman in mid-november 1951. 32 days later (oh, god, they were cold, wet, stupid days) left via baby aircraft carrier uss cape esperence bound for korea. there was only sk

Entry: 2486

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HERB RUDOLPH wrote on August 2, 2003

Comments:

Hey! Who remembers all those shots we got with those square needles, at Camp Stoneman? The funny part was, that the bigger the guy was that got the shots, the harder he fell to the floor! Oh, yeah: wasn't it great to have to run out to the bulletin board every morning to see if your name was the shipment roster? For three weeks that went on; day in and day out: you didn't dare miss your name. Then finally: there it was, for all the world to see. You looked at the destination, and all it said was 'Evil'. Destination Evil? Well, we all knew beforehand, where we going, and this really put the icing on the cake: we were all going to hell! Brother, in the middle of summer, 1952, I had a feeling that hell would have smelled better! Korea was definitely not the place to for a vacation (well, the Camp Stoneman people DID promise us a vacation voyage!) The open slit benjo ditches along the roadway, the rice paddies, the mama-sans and papa-sans taking care of their physical needs, squatting right there, side by side, on the side of the road; peeee-youuuu! Ah, yes: the many memories, right? It's been fun. Good talking to you all; let's hear from you.

Entry: 2485

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Entry: 2285

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C.O. SMITH wrote on November 12, 2002

Comments:

hi andy,
to continue, i was in stoneman for christmas of 1952 and believe me there was not a smile in the place. i was in tokyo for new years 1953 and flew fifty low level night attack missions in b-26's with the 37th bs, 17bw from jan to july 1953.

Entry: 2284

CAMP STONEMAN

C.O. SMITH wrote on November 12, 2002

Comments:

hi andy,
the 'sole surviving son ' rule was passed as a result
of the death of the five sullivan brothers on the u.s.s
juneau in wwii. my twin brother and i were not allowed to serve on the same ship in the navy for this reason. i do not believe

Entry: 2283

CAMP STONEMAN

ANDY JACKSON wrote on November 12, 2002

Comments:

surely you gest my friend. the only way one could forget camp stoneman was to have been fortunate enough to not have been there at all. too bad audie murphy had already used the title 'to hell and back' otherwise it could be used here. i spent 4 month in

Entry: 2252

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JIM MARTIN wrote on October 15, 2002

Comments:

In late Dec., 1949 I was transferred to Hamilton AFB in California to await assignment to the Far East. I was there about a week and the Air Force overseas replacemnent depot there was closed. All personell awaiting overseas assignment were sent by bus to Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, CA. In the transfer my pay records were lost and I was stuck at Camp Stoneman for over a month. Finally my pay records were either found or were re-created. I remember marching down Harbor St. in Pittsburg with our barricks bags over our sholders and boarding a ferry boat that took us to The Oakland Army Base where we boarded an Army troup transport. A tug boat punched a hole in the side of the ship as we were getting underway and we stopped at Ft. Point in San Francisco for repairs. We finally sailed for Japan in late Feb or early March 1950.

Entry: 1206

CAMP STONEMAN

RICHARD A. (DICK) PROULX wrote on March 13, 2002

Comments:

Have you forgotten?

Historic California Posts: Camp Stoneman
Address:http://www.militarymuseum.org/CpStoneman.html Changed:6:50 AM on Wednesday, February 20, 2002

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