6151st Air Base Unit

Air Force BBS

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Laveau Truth wrote on October 14, 2013

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City and State: SEATTLE WA

Unit:

Service or Relationship: Other

Comments: Hello=

My name is Laveau Truth. Contacting the Korean War project to
find out if anyone knows this man:

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His name is John Melvin Liggett and he was an A1C. A1C Liggett
served in the USAF between 1951 and 1954 and was honorably
discharged. He died in 1975 and is buried in the Field of Honor
at Restland Cemetery. Asking because I am researching for a book
and his name came up. Would like to find out if there is anyone
that served in the USAF with him who can tell me a little bit
about him.

Get back to me,
Thanks!!
Laveau

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Vito (Sonny) Rizzo wrote on January 23, 2010

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City and State: UNION NJ

Unit: 6151ST AIR BASE SQDN KANGNUNG

Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran

Comments: Arrived at Pohang Dong in April of 51. Soon after, we moved up the coast by LST with all our equipment but the ship captain made a small mistake and landed at Yang Yang, above the 38th paralell. A piper cub had to drop a message to staighten things out. Tents had already been set up by some Air National Guardsmen who had be activated in 50. They left in the middle of the summer. We not only serviced the Mosquito units (T6's and Pipers) but were there as a backup for the navy planes whose carrier was in the sea of Japan. On one occasion a pilot with a hung daisy cutter bomb (unknown to the pilot)landed and blew up, destroying the plane and killing the pilot, Soon after another corsair was to land with a landing cable from the carrier wrapped around its tail. The Colonel didnt want another fatality and told thepilot to bail out over the sea where some of our guys were waiting in a lifeboat. I remember Timmy jumped out of the boat to help him in. At the end of the summer we turned our base over to the 1st Marine Air Wing and everybody got split up. Luckily Flattop and I both were assigned to 5th Air Force HQs in Seoul until we both ratated home. We still stay in touch.

Keywords: Everybody knew me as Sonny. If you saw Ed (Flattop) Itter I was usually with him. The Mosquito T6 and Pipers flew out of K-18. We were a support unit.
I was a radio operator.

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Gordon Madison wrote on December 11, 2004

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City and State: CHAMBERSBURG PA

Unit: 452ND BOMB WG/6151ST ABSQ

Service or Relationship: Air Force Veteran - Korea

Comments: I was transferred from the 452nd Bomb Wg (Comm Sq.)in Japan, to the 6151st AB Squadron at K-18 Kangnung, Korea, about March or April of 1951.
Was communications supervisor in the message center until Sept of 1951 when rotated back to the States. Would sure like to hear from anyone else who was there at the same time so we can swap stories.

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