Units
51st Fighter-Interceptor Group
In September 1950, the 51st FIW moved from Okinawa to Japan. Flying F-80 Shooting Stars, pilots provided combat patrols, close air support, and armed reconnaissance missions in support of UN ground forces in Korea. The wing moved to South Korea in October only to return to Japan in December, leaving combat elements behind. In May 1951, the 51st FIW moved to Suwon AB, southwest of Seoul, but retained maintenance and supply elements at Tsuiki AB, Japan, to provide rear echelon support. Transitioning in late 1951 to the F-86 Sabre jets, the wing assumed an air superiority mission for the rest of the war.
Combat Components
51st Fighter-Interceptor Group: duration except detached September 26-October 12, 1950.
Stations
Itazuke AB, Japan, September 22, 1950; Kimpo AB, South Korea, October 10, 1950; Itazuke AB, Japan, December 10, 1950; Tsuiki AB, Japan, January 15, 1951 (operated detachment of wing elements at Suwon from May 1951); Suwon AB, South Korea, October 1, 1951-.
In September 1950, the 51st FIW moved from Okinawa to Japan. Flying F-80 Shooting Stars, pilots provided combat patrols, close air support, and armed reconnaissance missions in support of UN ground forces in Korea. The wing moved to South Korea in October only to return to Japan in December, leaving combat elements behind. In May 1951, the 51st FIW moved to Suwon AB, southwest of Seoul, but retained maintenance and supply elements at Tsuiki AB, Japan, to provide rear echelon support. Transitioning in late 1951 to the F-86 Sabre jets, the wing assumed an air superiority mission for the rest of the war.
Combat Components
51st Fighter-Interceptor Group: duration except detached September 26-October 12, 1950.
Stations
Itazuke AB, Japan, September 22, 1950; Kimpo AB, South Korea, October 10, 1950; Itazuke AB, Japan, December 10, 1950; Tsuiki AB, Japan, January 15, 1951 (operated detachment of wing elements at Suwon from May 1951); Suwon AB, South Korea, October 1, 1951-.
51st Fighter Interceptor Wing
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Keith Fannon
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Entry: 100440
Subject: CAPT. JOSEPH MCCONNELL, JR, 39TH SQUADRON, 51ST SIW
Subject: CAPT. JOSEPH MCCONNELL, JR, 39TH SQUADRON, 51ST SIW
Don Holland wrote on November 7, 2021
City and State: HENDERSON NV
Unit:
Service or Relationship:
Comments: I am writing a book on Capt. Joseph McConnell, Jr. and am seeking photos, relevant documents and recollections on him. He became a triple ace in 1953. Thank you. Don
Keywords: McConnell, ace
Entry: 94317
Subject: AIR FORCE FRIENDS 1965-1969 FROM THE 604COMM SQ. NAHA, OKINAWA
Subject: AIR FORCE FRIENDS 1965-1969 FROM THE 604COMM SQ. NAHA, OKINAWA
Calvin Blum SENIOR wrote on February 14, 2017
City and State: MI
Unit: 604
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: I want to find buddies that were in my quadran in the Air Force 1965-1968 I want to see if I know somebody that knows me
Keywords:
Entry: 93775
Subject: DO YOU REMEMBER LT. JOHN PETZEN?
Subject: DO YOU REMEMBER LT. JOHN PETZEN?
George Petzen wrote on September 25, 2016
City and State: MOORESVILLE IN
Unit: 51ST FIW - TSUIKI
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: Curious if anyone can fill in details of his DC citation from Sept 9, 1952 re: aerial intercept in a P-52 flying close cover for fighter bombers over the Yalu River against six Mig15 and damaging the lead Mig. Great citation, but I'm sure there were some drinks that night at the OC. Anybody?
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Entry: 92748
Subject: 51ST M & S GROUP, TSUIKI AFB
Subject: 51ST M & S GROUP, TSUIKI AFB
Lisa Earl wrote on February 22, 2016
City and State: WOODS CROSS UT
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: I recently came across my Fathers identification cards that I have never seen before. I would love to know more about what he did or if anyone knew him and is still alive or any pictures etc.
His card reads A/3C AF 19410131 51st M & S Group, Tsuiki AFB - Airman First Class
I hope someone can help me.
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Entry: 90608
Subject: ANYONE WHO REMEMBERS TOM GRIFFITH
Subject: ANYONE WHO REMEMBERS TOM GRIFFITH
Andrew Griffith wrote on February 16, 2015
City and State: DFW TX
Unit: N/A
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: Looking for info about myself late grandfather Tom or Thomas Griffith, he was with the 51st FIW in Suwon in 1952. I have boxes of photos but would love to see if anyone remembers him or has stories about him.
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Entry: 87360
Subject: PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION
Subject: PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION
George Weigel wrote on October 7, 2013
City and State: SUNRISE FL
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: Can anyone tell me or where can I go to check to see
if the 51st
fighter interceptor wing unit received the
Presidential Unit Citation in
the year of 1952....
Thank you
George Weigel
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Entry: 85200
Subject: AIRFORCE VETERAN
Subject: AIRFORCE VETERAN
Daniel Moore wrote on January 13, 2013
City and State: CONGRESS AZ
Unit: 51ST AMS
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: From 3/ 73 to 12/ 73 I was at Osan AB as weapons
control mach for F4s. I dont remember much an would
like to chat with anyone there at that time.
Keywords:
Entry: 84002
Subject: LT DONALD WINGERT
Subject: LT DONALD WINGERT
Robert Wingert JR. wrote on August 24, 2012
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: Looking for any information on LT Donald Wingert who flew
F80 Missions in Korea. Would have been 1950 to 1952 time
frame. Flew with the 51st Fighter Squadron. He was later
lost when his T33 had a catastrophic engine bearing
failure and his tail sheared off over Moab Utah. Any info
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Again
Keywords: 51st Fighter Squadron, Canistota Clipper, F80, T33
Entry: 75703
Subject: 25TH FTR INTRCPTR SQDN K-13 KOREA
Subject: 25TH FTR INTRCPTR SQDN K-13 KOREA
Jesse Gambill wrote on August 5, 2010
Email Update Needed
City and State: BONAIRE GA
Unit: FIRST ASSIGNMENT 25TH FTR INTCPR SQDN K-13
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: 25th Ftr Interceptor Squadron K-13 Korea 1953
OPS Offcier Capt Bill Ginn
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Entry: 74135
Subject: MY FATHER WAS SALVATORE DEMAIO
Subject: MY FATHER WAS SALVATORE DEMAIO
John DeMaio SR. wrote on March 29, 2010
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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
Entry: 73052
Subject: 51ST FOOD SERVICE SQDN 52-53
Subject: 51ST FOOD SERVICE SQDN 52-53
Joe Carter wrote on January 8, 2010
Email Update Needed
City and State: ALAMOGORDO NM
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: Would like to chat with anyone who remembers me. I have forgotten names.
Keywords:
Entry: 70420
Subject: STAFF/SGT BUD BISHOP
Subject: STAFF/SGT BUD BISHOP
William (Bill) McKinney wrote on June 2, 2009
City and State: REDDING CA
Unit: USAF AIR WEATHER DET . POHANG AFB K-3 KOREA.
Service or Relationship: Friend of Veteran
Comments:
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
Entry: 66845
Subject: HELLO, I FLEW IN THIS FIGHTER GROUP!
Subject: HELLO, I FLEW IN THIS FIGHTER GROUP!
Walter Zisette wrote on August 11, 2008
Email Update Needed
City and State: GIG HARBOR WA
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTER
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: I would love to hear from anyone in this group! Walt Zisette
Keywords:
Entry: 66532
Subject:
Subject:
Robert Young JR. wrote on July 17, 2008
Email Update Needed
City and State: BAYPORT NY
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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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Entry: 58405
Subject: LOOKING FOR ANY WHO REMEMBER CORNELIUS(NEIL)SCOTT SHOT DOWN1951 MIA DECLARED DIA 52
Subject: LOOKING FOR ANY WHO REMEMBER CORNELIUS(NEIL)SCOTT SHOT DOWN1951 MIA DECLARED DIA 52
Cornelius Strong wrote on August 8, 2006
Email Update Needed
City and State: PORT BYRON NY
Unit: 51 FTR INT
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments:
Keywords:
Entry: 57432
Subject: 51ST AIR POLICE SQ.
Subject: 51ST AIR POLICE SQ.
Joe Thorpe wrote on May 30, 2006
Email Update Needed
City and State: HAZARD KY
Unit: 51ST APRON
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
Comments: I remember a Macmillan, a Nunnley, a Zeglar, a Hobbs, and a Ruben Robertson, any of you guys out there?
Keywords:
Entry: 54887
Subject: SUWON, AUG 1952 - JUL 1953
Subject: SUWON, AUG 1952 - JUL 1953
Joe Patterson JR. wrote on December 29, 2005
City and State: TULSA OK
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran
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.
Entry: 54643
Subject: BUZZ ALDRIN'S F-86 MARKINGS
Subject: BUZZ ALDRIN'S F-86 MARKINGS
Kevin Kilkenny wrote on December 14, 2005
City and State: STATEN ISLAND NY
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Interested Person
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
Entry: 52405
Subject: DO YOU KNOW MY FATHER?
Subject: DO YOU KNOW MY FATHER?
Stacey Robinson/Roberson wrote on August 1, 2005
Email Update Needed
City and State: PERALTA NM
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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
Entry: 48764
Subject: 53-54
Subject: 53-54
Virgil Whitlock wrote on February 7, 2005
Email Update Needed
City and State: DOYLINE LA
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments:
Keywords: Early 1953-early 1954
Entry: 47821
Subject: 51ST MEDICAL GROUP
Subject: 51ST MEDICAL GROUP
Tarrie Mitchell wrote on December 30, 2004
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: Looking for information about 51st Medical Group stationed at Suwon Korea during 1951-52.
Keywords: Suwon, 1951-52
Entry: 47239
Subject: INFO ON BILL CREECH
Subject: INFO ON BILL CREECH
Walter Boyne wrote on December 2, 2004
Email Update Needed
City and State: ASHBURN VA
Unit: SAC
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments:
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.
Entry: 41783
Subject: TSUIKI JAPAN 53 TO 54.
Subject: TSUIKI JAPAN 53 TO 54.
William (Bill) Markowitz wrote on March 16, 2004
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
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.
Entry: 40262
Subject:
Subject:
Craig Porter wrote on January 25, 2004
City and State: GLENDALE AZ
Unit: 51ST AMS
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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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Entry: 39990
Subject: REUNIONS
Subject: REUNIONS
Paul Slavik wrote on January 15, 2004
City and State: SMYRNA DE
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING - 39TH FIGHTER SQD.
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
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
Entry: 39655
Subject: THANK YOU
Subject: THANK YOU
John Hampton wrote on January 2, 2004
Email Update Needed
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
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)
Entry: 37552
Subject: 'KOREA--TWO GENERATIONS IN COUNTRY
Subject: 'KOREA--TWO GENERATIONS IN COUNTRY
Major Van Harl wrote on October 13, 2003
City and State: KIRTLAND AFB NM
Unit: 51FIGHTER WING
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
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 and 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 and 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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Entry: 37221
Subject: ABG 51-52
Subject: ABG 51-52
Stanley L. (junior) Flaugher wrote on September 29, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State: GROVE CITY OH
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER WING, 51ST AIR BASE GROUP HQ
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
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 and 1952.
Keywords: J. Donald Fee, 51st AB Group, Suwon K-13 Korea 51st Fighter Wing 1951-1952
Entry: 36639
Subject: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Subject: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Les Hanson wrote on August 31, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State: BOSCAWEN NH
Unit: 6303RD AIR TERMINAL SQ NAHA AB,OKINAWA
Service or Relationship: -
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
Keywords:
Entry: 36026
Subject: POEM
Subject: POEM
Major Van Harl wrote on August 3, 2003
City and State: KIRTLAND AFB NM
Unit: 51 FIGHTER WING, OSAN AB, ROK
Service or Relationship: -
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
Keywords: "We buried another Veteran today"
Entry: 34234
Subject: 16TH OPERATIONS-SUWON
Subject: 16TH OPERATIONS-SUWON
John M. Stearns wrote on May 17, 2003
City and State: BOCA RATON FL
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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
Keywords: 51st F\V
Entry: 33890
Subject: LT. RAFAEL ANTHONY DU BREUIL - MIA
Subject: LT. RAFAEL ANTHONY DU BREUIL - MIA
John M. Stearns wrote on April 29, 2003
City and State: BOCA RATON FL
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Family Member
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
Entry: 33057
Subject: KOREAN WAR MEDAL
Subject: KOREAN WAR MEDAL
Susan McGurn wrote on March 25, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State:
Unit:
Service or Relationship: Interested Person
Comments: Ok two questions. First is I need info on the recent medal being given to Korean War vets. Who to contact to find out more about it. etc...For more info on it.
Keywords:
Entry: 32510
Subject: JUST A GREETING
Subject: JUST A GREETING
David Tronsgard wrote on March 5, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State: SCIO OH
Unit: 51ST. FIW AIR BASE GROUP
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: In my old age I am getting nostalgic. All the war talk has me on edge. Perhaps somebody from the Korean War remembers me. I gave out a lot of tents, shoes and blankets (and pro kits.)
Keywords: Supply Sergeant for Air Base Group
Entry: 31909
Subject: 6091ST RECON SQ. YOKATA AB 1955
Subject: 6091ST RECON SQ. YOKATA AB 1955
John Hampton wrote on February 11, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State:
Unit: USAF, 6091ST RECON SQ, YOKOTA AB
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: Just a sincere Thank You note for all the effort extended by the 51st in flying and keeping those F-86's up there. I was happy to see them off our wing tip on more than one occasion.
Keywords: RB-29 Aerial Photographer, Sea Lane Surveliance 1955, Japan-Korea-Russian coast
Entry: 31272
Subject: LOOKING FOR OLD FRIENDS
Subject: LOOKING FOR OLD FRIENDS
Roy (Nick) Nicholson wrote on January 15, 2003
Email Update Needed
City and State: MCCALL ID
Unit: 51ST FIW SUPPLY SQD
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: George Lilly
George Fisher
Frank Tucker
Alphonso (Pappy) Brooks
Keywords:
Entry: 30188
Subject: NEW WEB SITE FOR 51ST FIW ASSOC.
Subject: NEW WEB SITE FOR 51ST FIW ASSOC.
Keith Fannon wrote on December 6, 2002
City and State: CARROLLTON TX
Unit: HQ. SQ. 51ST FIW
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: I have finally set up a personal site dedicated to the guys that served with the 51st FIW both before the Korean War and after. I have done this in hopes of locating more of the guys that we have lost track of. Please visit and leave you name and e-mail address. You will find info about the 51st FIW Association as well. See you at www.keithfannon.netfirms.com
Thanks for visiting.
Keywords: 51st FIW, Air Installations, Hq. Sq., Naha Okinawa, Itazuke Japan, Tsuiki Japan, Suwon Korea, F-80's and F-86's
Entry: 29220
Subject: 53-54 MAINTANCE FIRE PIT
Subject: 53-54 MAINTANCE FIRE PIT
John Runci wrote on November 2, 2002
Email Update Needed
City and State: METHUEN MA
Unit: 51TH MAINTANCE TSUIKI 1953 TO 1954
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: would like to hear from any one who rembers' me or who played on the base baseball team telphone no. 1 978 687 7751
Keywords: john runci 51th maintance tsuiki 1953 to 1954 worked the fire pit testing plans
Entry: 27308
Subject: OKINAWA, JAPAN, AND KOREA '50,'51
Subject: OKINAWA, JAPAN, AND KOREA '50,'51
George L. Lilly wrote on August 1, 2002
Email Update Needed
City and State: ORANGE CITY FL
Unit: 51ST SUPPLY SQDN
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments:
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Entry: 26733
Subject: BRUCE FISHER , NC
Subject: BRUCE FISHER , NC
James Wright wrote on July 4, 2002
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City and State: SC
Unit: 5TH AF 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Service or Relationship: -
Comments: I'm looking for Bruce Fisher Lived in NC during sevice and was going to move to CA. Please e-mail me.
Keywords: Korean vet
Entry: 25601
Subject: CLARK AIR BASE IN 1951- 52
Subject: CLARK AIR BASE IN 1951- 52
Curtis Stallins wrote on May 19, 2002
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City and State:
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Service or Relationship: Family Member
Comments: My father , Raymond E. Stallins, was stationed at Clark sometime between 1951 and 1953, I believe. I think that he was part of a fighter group called the Vampire Squadron; many of my photos are of F80s displaying a large black and red vampire bat painted near the front of the fuselage. My father flew F80s (and P-51s, I believe); I have some photos of him and various gentlemen and aircraft. Some of the F80s display numbers TR-967, FT-639, and FT-565. One up-close photo shows my father sitting in SN# 47-565A. A list of three names is stenciled just under the canopy. It appears to read:
Pilot LT. STALLINS
C/C A/IC BONDERSON (not sure about the name)
ARM. A/IC JOHNSON
I would be very interested in speaking with anyone who knew my father or perhaps flew in his squadron during that time, either while he was stationed at Clark Air Base, in Texas, or anywhere else during his fighter pilot days of late WW2 through Korea. I would also be interested in speaking with anyone who could answer a few questions about what kinds of aircraft were at Clark then, particularly anyone who could tell me if P-51s were available.
Thank you for any guidance you can offer.
Curtis Stallins
curtisstallins@yahoo.com
Keywords: F80C SN:47-565A
Entry: 24722
Subject: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING ASSOC. (1950-1956)
Subject: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING ASSOC. (1950-1956)
Keith Fannon wrote on April 13, 2002
City and State: CARROLLTON TX
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: I am the Historian for the 51st FIW Assoc. (1950-1956). I am always looking for any of the guys that were with us during those years. If you are not a member and you would like information about the Association or you are just trying to locate an old buddy, get in touch with me. I keep up to date copies of the Rosters (living and deceased)that I can search for you. We have a yearly Reunion usually in September or October. I look forward to hearing from you.
Keywords: Naha Okinawa, Itazuke Japan, Kimpo Korea, Tsuiki Japan, and Suwon Korea.
Entry: 22941
Subject: INFO
Subject: INFO
Arthur Kleiderer wrote on February 6, 2002
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City and State: HOUSTON TX
Unit: 39TH SQD
Service or Relationship: Friend of Veteran
Comments: I was the base Ops officxerof K10 and K 46 in l952
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Paul E Jones was transferred from 18 fbw to 51 fw and flew F86
Trying to locate
Entry: 22864
Subject: 51ST COMM. SQD
Subject: 51ST COMM. SQD
Wayne Rose wrote on February 2, 2002
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City and State: ST. PETERSBURG FL
Unit: 51ST COMM.
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: I was a Telephone Lineman at K-13 From Oct52 to Oct 53. Like to hear from anybody that was with the 51st Comm. at that time.
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Entry: 22495
Subject: FUELING FOR 16/25 39 TH FTR SQDNS
Subject: FUELING FOR 16/25 39 TH FTR SQDNS
William (Bill) Walden wrote on January 21, 2002
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City and State: FAYETTEVILLE NC
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER SQDN (REFUELING)
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: Would like to chat with anyone that was in the 51st during 52 and 53. Call or E mail or write
Keywords: 51st Refueling April 1952 March 1953 16th 25th and 39th Sqdns
Entry: 20578
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Fred Kulp wrote on November 12, 2001
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City and State: PLANTATION FL
Unit: 51 MAINT AIO
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: k13 Jan. 51 to Jan 52 Lt dan Angera Co
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Entry: 19049
Subject: BRONZE STAR
Subject: BRONZE STAR
Ernie Mutschler wrote on August 29, 2001
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City and State: RED OAK IA
Unit: 51ST FIGHTER INTERCEPTER WING
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: I served with the 51st Fighter Intercepter Wg
May 52 thru May 53 and would like to get the
writeup the 51st Fighter being awarded two Bronze
Stars during this period. I can still recall when
Col Gabreske notified all flyboys that they were
no longer in the Air Corp but now assigned to the
U S. Marines
If you have any information as to the bronze
stars would sure appriciate any info
TAKE CARE
Keywords: Mconnell and Fisher
Entry: 18228
Subject: LOOKING FOR KOREAN ORPHAN NAMED BING
Subject: LOOKING FOR KOREAN ORPHAN NAMED BING
Edward M. (Ed) Downey wrote on July 24, 2001
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City and State: POTOMAC MD
Unit: 51ST AIR POLICE/51ST FOOD SERVICE SQ
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: I served with the 51st in Suwon in 1954 and 55, first as Adjutant of the Air Police Sq and when George Holland arrived I became Adjutant of the Food Service Sq. I arived the week the shooting stopped and left a month before the move to Naha. While there the Air Police Sq. had a young Korean orphan "mascot" we named Bing. I plan to return to Korea next year. Bing is one of the people I will try to find. Some of my friends told me that they had taken Bing to the Episcopal Orphanage in Suwon...the same orphanage that we befriended and often visited. I have great pictures of the kids performing for us. I will try to trace Bing through that source. He was about six when we said goodbye. That would make him about 62 now. I have pictures of him and other Koreans who worked for us. I plan to see if I can find any of them.
I have great memories of K-13,the Fightin' 51st and the many good people that I served with. While that was 55 years ago in many ways it seems like only yeaterday.
While I left the service when I returned home from Korea, I became active in another way. I started a magazine for military families named Military Lifestyle. It was very successful and has treated me well. Today it is on the web under www.militarylifestyle.com. I also publish several military trade magazines and started a company, Empower IT, that receives, processed and sells scanning data from military commissaries. I am in the Washington, DC area and have considerable contact with people in the Pentagon as well as in the Congress.
I would enjoy corresponding with anyone who remembers those days. One of my vivid memories is the night that the chapel burned to the ground. I was Officer of the Day. I also remember those mock dog fights overhead when we were attacked by other squadrons from other bases and our fly boys practiced maneuvers. There were so many near collisions...scared the hell out of me.
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Entry: 18158
Subject: 1953-TSUIKI,JAPAN
Subject: 1953-TSUIKI,JAPAN
Russell L. (Russ) Yeaton JR. wrote on July 22, 2001
City and State: SOUTH PORTLAND ME
Unit: 51ST M AND S GROUP
Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea
Comments: WAS ASSIGNED TO K-13 SUWON,KOREA,, DUTY WAS IN TSUIKI,JAPAN-1953 TO 1954-WORKED AS MECHANIC HELPER, THEN TO FABRIC SHOP TO PARACHUTE SHOP,WE WORKED 16 HOUR DAYS FOR 6 MONTHS THEN WENT TO 12 HOUR DAYS, 2 SHIFTS AROUND THE CLOCK...6 MEN TO A TENT,, THOSE WERE THE DAYS....
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Entry: 16625
Subject: REMCO, TSUIKI, JAPAN
Subject: REMCO, TSUIKI, JAPAN