5th Communications Group

5th Communications Group

Reunions
1st Radio Sqdn (601 Com Sqdn)
1st Telephone and Carrier Sqdn
2nd Communications Sqdn
2nd Radio Relay Sqdn
5th Communications Sqdn
601st Communications Sqdn
7th Communications Sqdn
934th Signal Battalion
5th Communications Group Website and Information
History of 5th Communications Group
General messages for unit

Website for entire Group

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998 
"Lester J. Wilsey" Email address wrote:

phone: 205-892-2645

Would you please check out my homepage; 
Visit  website at: Click here

Lester J. Wilsey
1st Radio Sqdn
5th Comm Group
5th AF Korea 1952
USAF/RETIRED

Newsletter is the 5th Comet

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934th Signal Bn 5th Com Group

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998
Rick Feiler Email address wrote:

Check for Reunions
CONTACT: Feiler
TELEPHONE: (580)-657-8601

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History of the 5th Communications Group

The 5th Communications Group was born in Seoul, Korea on 25 November
1951. It's parent organization was the 934th Signal Battalion, Separate
(TAC), which arrived in Korea shortly after the outbreak of hostilities
in 1950. The 934th supplied the communications network for the 5th Air
Force during the bitter fighting in the retreat to the Pusan perimeter
and the advance to Pyongyang and the Chongjin reservoir. Men of the
934th fought with the Marines at Chongjin and with the ground forces at
Pyongyang. At the second evacation of Seoul, 934th men were among the
last to leave, destroying part of their equipment which could not be
evacuated.

The 934th earned four battle stars and the Distinguished Unit Citation
during the Korean Campaign. This was the legacy given to the 5th
Communications Group at the ceremony, when the 934th was deactivated and
the 5th Communications Group was born. The history of the 5th Comm Group
in Korea is a story of getting the messages through in the face of
overwhelming difficulties. It is the story of men who worked as much as
sixty hours straight, without sleep - of men who fought off guerilla
attacks so that the circuits could be kept in operation - of men who
didn't know how to quit. They built a reputation that lives on, long
after the war in Korea has ended.

The following squadrons made up the 5th Communications Group and along
with the men of the 934th Signal Battalion, Separate (TAC), will be
represented at our reunions:  
Telephone & Carrier Squadron
1st Radio Squadron
7th Communications Squadron
2nd Communications Squadron
2nd Radio Relay Squadron

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934 Signal Bn to MTAS- Attached

Updated Aug 9, 2003
From: "George Hanrahan"gth1@infoserve.net
Date: Sat, 10 May 97 15:11:58 
Updated Aug 9, 2003
Subject: 934th Signal Bn./Mtacs #2

Hi. Ted:

Thought you might be interested in the attached file that lists those
members of the 934th that were formally attached to the Marine Tactical
Air Control Sqdn from Sept./50 to Feb./51.

Some of us were with the Marines before the date specified in the
attached list. If you have any questions, please advise:

   Air Force Detachment to MTACS - 2 

The following listed enlisted men joined MTACS-2 on 22 September 1950:

MILLAN, John T.                 AF 13243723             SSGT
BIANCHI, Bernard E.             AF 16279016             SGT
BREST, Elvin C.                 AF 17046956             SGT
BUNN, Clement H..               AF 14282347             SGT
CASTERLINE, Harry               AF 27042518             SGT
HAIRE, Warren O.                AF 18272619             SGT
REIGEL, Lamar C.                AF 13164344             SGT
SCHIKLE, Robert E               AF 12295176             SGT
ROBINSON, John W.               AF 15271015             CPL
THOMPSON, Charles W.            AF 18335926             CPL


The following listed enlisted men joined MTACS-2 on 8 October 1950

BROWNING, Archibald M.          AF 34757841             SSGT
KRUCHTEN, Cornelius G.          AF 16209313             SSGT
BEATSON, David T.               AF 16316234             SGT
FISHER, Robert B.               AF 57223017             SGT
WILSON, Chester L.              AF 10319022             SGT
BYRNES, Joseph W.               AF 19330201             CPL
COLLINS, Marcell                AF 18321148             CPL
HANRAHAN, George T.             AF 12320343             CPL



These two pages were copied by G.T. Hanrahan in Burnaby, B. C., Canada
on 97/05/06 from photo-copies sent to him by Clement H. Bunn on
97/02/27. 

The serial # of Wilson could be AF 19319022 as the 0 and 9 were
superimposed. on the copy.

There was medical corpsman attached to this 934th detachment. I have no 
particulars on him except, from memory, that his name was Dowdle or 
some variation.

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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 
George Hanrahan gth1@infoserve.netwrote:
660 26th Ave., West
Vancouver, BC
V5Z 4H6
 
Telephone: 604-436-3627


Re: 934th Signal Bn, 5th Com Group
I don't think that I mentioned that before I went with the 6150th.
I had been with the 934th Signal Batallion of the 5th Comm. Grp. 
And it was while with the 934th that I was attached to the Marines 
at Inchon. I did not go to the 6150th until Spring? of 1951. 

I served with the 1st Marines from Inchon to Wonsan to Hagaru - ri to
the Yalu and returned by Lst 898 from Hungnam to Pusan on Christmas 
Eve,1950; the 1st Cavalry Division; British 28th Bgde - with who I was 
wounded on 08 October, 1951; Capital ROK Division; 1st ROK Division. 

I was was with the 6150th Sqdn. of the 6147 Tactical Air Control Group.
My Sqdn. was known as the Radio Jeep outfit and directed all the air 
stikes by carrier and land based aircraft. 

Our designation was Tactical  Air Control Party ie TACP and consisted 
of an officer, usually from a fighter-bomber wing and 2 enlisted men 
- a radio operator, me, and a mechanic.

Total time in Korea Sept./50 to April/52. I belong to a veterans 
group which operates under the name "Mosquitos" but unfortunately
most in the group served after I left Korea and I have only found one 
TACP member whom I know.

See USAF 6147 TAC
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