1503rd Air Police Squadron

Air Force BBS

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Douglas Noe wrote on December 17, 2012

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City and State: WARSAW KY

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Service or Relationship: Family Member

Comments: dad was in Korea for 1 year 8 days but i have no way
of finding out where in Korea he was stationed. He is
receiving a National Defence Service Medal post mortum
in six months. his records were lost in a fire at the
storage facility with only a copy of his discharge DD-
214 surviving. Anyone with any information please help
me out....Thanks

Keywords: MOE, also served at F.E.Warren AFB in Cheyene, WY in
the 3450th Air Police Squadron (ATC)

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Thomas Rider wrote on August 5, 2004

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Comments: Does anyone know what the 1503rd Air Transport Wing Patch looks like and where it was home stationed during 1950 thru 1967.

Keywords: Locations From 1950 to 1967

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Edward McKeeken wrote on June 3, 2004

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Samuel Steven Collins wrote on February 18, 2004

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City and State: RED BLUFF CA

Unit: 2710TH AIR POLICE SQUADRON

Service or Relationship: Interested Person

Comments: Showa air station. City of showa mae. worked town patrol with army from triple A battery, SFC Lee N Chin. Base commander Elwood T. Driver. Maj.Was stationed at showa from 56 to 58. Some names that I recall. Alex cook, bennie cook, JB steamer, Lee r martin, Lawrence gradias, dovard ross, anthony sanchez, Hey, grey matter is slow, been a long road since the home run bar.

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Daniel (Dan) Kelly wrote on October 29, 2003

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City and State: NEWBURGH NY

Unit: 1503RD AIR POLICE SQUD

Service or Relationship: Interested Person

Comments: I was a member of the 1503rd Air Police Squd. from December 1952 to July 1955. Would like to hear from anyone in the outfit durning these years. Provost Marshall Major Russell. Hank Cole, Charlie La Forge, Clint Hartong.

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Wilson Powell wrote on April 13, 2000

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City and State: MANCHESTER MO

Unit: 58TH AIR POLICE -- CHANGED TO 1503RD, I THINK

Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea

Comments: YEAH! I ENLISTED

Wilson Powell, USAF -- 1950 -'54

When the Korean conflict broke out, June 25, 1950, I was eighteen by one day and it was my turn to go.

I'd been brought up with World War II, planted a Victory garden, saved grease, metal foil and newspapers, and earned stripes supporting the war effort. I'd bought Victory stamps and earned enough ten-centers mowing lawns to buy a twenty-five dollar war bond. I'd read Life magazine and seen the maps of war, the progress of victory against our foes on two fronts. I saw newsreels of heroes, men, just a little older than me, fighting amidst explosion and fire. I went to the movies and watched Hollywood's version of war.

So, when my war broke out, I assumed a patriotic posture I thought was real, with no understanding at all of the political realities being fought over or of the masses of civilian victims caught in the middle. My country was at war again and this was my opportunity to become a man.

The Marines and the Army turned me down, because of a football injury. I tried a third time, hiding the injury, and was accepted by the Air Force. They made me a cop, an Air Policeman.

After languishing for several months in the Mojave desert, guarding a remote radar site, I finally shipped over. I was finally in Korea.

I found I was hated, first by North Korean prisoners, which I got used to, then by Korean civilians, which I did not get used to. I learned to hate back. I saw soldiers shooting at civilians to make them run, soldiers made crazy by bad booze and bad consciences, beatings at interrogations, dead children, rape, destroyed homes, strident prostitution, shameless pandering for military script, hunger, even starvation.

The enemy was shadowy, lived in the dark, infiltrated, sabotaged and ambushed. I, alone with my dog in the dark, was supposed to stop that. I lost sleep, turned hard, lost compassion, gained suspicion and wariness and became explosively violent.

One day, I came across an old couple on a very poor farm taking in and caring for orphaned children with all the meager means they had. Their sacrifice, their unselfish humanity, re-introduced me to my own, restored me to sanity. Only then did I start becoming a man.

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Keywords: K-2,K-9,

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