ROK Army and Marines prove to be rock-solid fighters and allies in Vietnam War. Served as an Anglico US Marine attached to Koreans in Nam 1966-67. We were responsible for close air support and naval gunfire for the Koreans. Two of us to a Korean Company. Any Koreans looking for us can use my e-mail or Anglico Association on web. Would like to hear from some old 1st Battalion Blue Dragon Marines who served in 1966/67 Nam. Semper Fi,
Neal Schilling, US Marine 1964-1968, February 19, 2012
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Burma Banshees. Hello from France ! I have always been interested into the 80th FG story, and was wondering where did the color view of Elroy's P-40 comes from ? Is there a color movie on this unit ? I am an illustrator for the EAA "Warbirds" mag, and also a French aviation mag. Thank you !! And congrats for your interesting website !
Jean, February 17, 2012
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Kriegies of Oflag 64. My Father will be 92 in March and was one of the Oflag 64 POW's who marched the 350+ miles and made it through to Moosburg with two other soldiers who shared his blanket! Thank you for your website! Warmest regards,
T. J. Bugg, February 14, 2012
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“Find the bastards, and pile on,” the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Indochina. My name is Curt Lambert and I was pilot (UH-1) with the Air Cav Troop, 11th ACR in Vietnam from 1970-71. I just read your report on Blackhorse that you posted on your website on July 17, 2010. What an amazing read that was for me. Brings back a lot of memories! A few of us from the ACT have created a website devoted to the aviation assets of the 11th ACR. The focus is on the pilots and crewmembers and support units that kept us going. http://11thacraviation.com/ We’re going to try and compile a decent history of the Air Cav Troop……..we’re all getting to be ‘geezers’ now so we are feeling a sense of urgency to have our legacy documented for our families and posterity. I would love to be able to use what you have written about the ACT (with credit to you of course) on our website, or at the least create a link to your page. Thanks for any consideration for our efforts.
Curt Lambert, February 5, 2012
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“Find the bastards and Pile On”, 11th ACR. I was there at Snoul (Cambodia) at the air strip, E Troop. 1st. Platoon, 2/11 Armored Cav Regiment (ACR).
Daniel Biho, January 15, 2012
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EC-47s and Walking Dead. I was just turned on to your site by a post in the TLC (Thailand-Laos-Cabodia) Brotherhood. Thank you for such a well-done effort. I have reading material for some time to come. I have forwarded the link to the 1 / 9 Walking Dead to a friend in Detroit, whose unit I think that was.
Duane Mullen, 620th TacConSqdn – TACC-NS 67-68, Monkey Mountain – Son Tra, RVN, January 15, 2012
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Afghan Withdrawal 2011-2012: Hi, Just wanted to thank you for your up to date news on the Afghan withdrawal. I have bookmarked your page and check it often. My husband is a Marine and is headed there in a few weeks with 1 year orders. Due to recent events over the last few months I'm fairly certain he'll be home well before 12 months. However, he deployed Jan 2010 to Iraq for 12 months and I thought the same thing, but he finished all 12 months to the day as an Air Force General's aide. This time will be different right? :)
Thanks again for info,
Jennifer Collins, January 5, 2012
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Iraq Withdrawal 2010-2011: Hi my name is Tina and I am engaged to a man in the Army. I'm really new to military life and how all the processes work. He was deployed to Iraq in July and is still in Kuwait to finish his tour. I look constantly trying to find out news and your website is the only one that keeps up to date that I understand! I just wanted to say thank you! :)
Tina, January 4, 2012
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Marlie Casseus: I would love it if this letter could reach Dr. Jesus Gomez.
Dear Dr. Jesus A. Gomez, I am a 12 year old boy who lives in Flushing, New York. You inspire me to help people and to simply be happy. I recently watched a video about Marly a 13 year old girl who is much older now, she had a tumor weighing 7 kilos in the center of her face. This tumor was slowly killing her. She was flown to the Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami, Florida. You had preformed a surgery that changed her life forever. When a person looks into a child's eyes and knows that something is wrong, you see it in that child's eyes, you see that they need help that they are just begging for a chance, a chance to live. You are someone who put the most amount of effort into helping Marly. I had always wanted to be a doctor, since the day i broke my arm and went to the hospital where my doctor reset my two bones in my forearm, my Radius and my Ulna. I know this might never reach you but thank you.
Gabriel DaCosta, December 29, 2011
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Iraq Withdrawal 2011: I just read your article about our withdrawal from Iraq. However, a combination of your article and others including why President Obama evacuated early is because it appears that the present Iraq Shiite government didn't appreciate what we did for them and not only dislikes us but it seems like they hate us for the job we did by giving them control over their "friends" the Sunnis. It seems to me that reading between the lines in Talking Proud we are keeping a substantial number of troops of all types in the general area, including Kuwait, because we expect fireworks either in Iraq or Iran. Does my analysis seem to be correct? Thanks. Incidentally, I am an 86 year old former Navy draftee.
Oscar Schabb, December 29, 2011
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Canadians in Vietnam. Congratulations on this superb site. As a matter of interest, we had two Canadians in our battalion (5RAR) in Vietnam 1969/70. They were both ex Princess Pat's Lieutenants who needed to resign their commissions to qualify. They both made it back to Oz.
Mike Dench, November 10, 2011
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I am a civilian contractor in Iraq, working at COB Basra. I stumbled upon your blog while looking for pictures of 107mm rockets, and found it very informative. Its tough being here, with only a micro-view of whats going on in the big picture, and I have learned a great deal about the drawdown from your serial story on Iraq. I had to laugh when I saw you mentioned the 36 ID, we worked closely with many of them, made a lot of good friends, and it was very sad seeing them go. But of course we are pleased they are now home with their families, having done their time in this place.
Just wanted to write to thank you for your efforts, to let you know someone is reading it, and I am passing the link along to all my friends who are curious about how this whole thing is going to wind down or wind up.
Appreciate your time very much,
Chris Meyer, September 10, 2011
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I happened to be “googling” my mother tonight and came across your story. My mother, Mary Rodden Nagel, died in 2002 on February 1st. She and Doris (Gardner) remained friends all of that time. I would love to be in contact with you.
Ann Nagel Tittiger, September 8, 2011
Editor’s note: Ann is referring to our story, Kamikazes Attack USS Comfort. Mary Rodden and Doris Gardner were aboard, survived, were friends, and both were from Wisconsin.
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Did you- or one of your relatives - know my uncle - Donald Preston Maxwell - He was a pilot with the Burma Banshees - 89th FTR Sq - 80th FTR Gp - shot down and killed on 1/29/45. Received the Distinguished Flying Cross/OLC and AM/2OLC and Purple Heart in light of his death on 1/29/1945.
My mother - who was a WASP - is his sister.
We have a long history of service to our country. My family never spoke of him - as was the way things were then - especially when your only son is killed at age 20. Just recently found out about his letters and have some of his letters. Am trying to put together an album or book about him and my Mom - as you probably know the WASP's received the Congressional Gold Metal in March 2010. Would love to know more so I can truly honor his sacrifice.
Thank you
Barbara Samorajczyk, July 31, 2011
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Writing this book changed my life and I now spend a lot of time speaking to groups, and collecting info about these brave women.The book is limited to overseas experience. I interviewed almost 200 and have more than 100 oral histories in the book, covering all theaters of war. There were some I could never reach, and then recently a friend told me about her aunt who was on the USS Comfort when it was kamikazied, and soon will share her letters with me. Because of that I began Googling the subject, and found your website - WOW!
There is so much I want to share, but hope you will include my book in your site somehow. Among some reasons: many of "my nurses" were from Wisconsin, or trained sometime at Camp McCoy: book includes stories from the first flight nurses; African- American nurses serving in the segregated army; nurses who were prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines, and many many more stories - all true
Now that most of them are gone, I am hoping that their relatives will be involved in finding about their experiences.
I have most books that are about or by the nurses of the 1940s, and continue to find new ones. One day I will be able to make a good list!
I may never get to read your whole website, but much of what I read today relates to so much of what I know. And, my husband flew C-123s in Vietnam in 1963-64, when no one knew what was beginning to happen there. But that is another story for another day.
Thanks for writing all that you have, and keep up the good work. I will be checking in pretty constantly for a while.
Diane Burke Fessler, June 6, 2011
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I just found this memorial of Canadian Viet Vets and read much of it. I’m from Winnipeg and I had visited Larry Collins grave site about 1986. I never knew him or many of the other guys from Winnipeg who served. Bill Buffie was my sister`s boss where she worked.
I did know a guy who had joined the Marines in 1967. His name is Pat Towers. We both were in the reserves up here in Winnipeg and trained at CFB Shilo for 8 weeks of 1967.
I remembered him because when I was very sick in the barracks he gave me his second blanket since I had the shivers very bad. Anyways after our training we went back to our own units and I never heard of him until 1986 in which he told me of Larry Collins.
Pat Towers had left the reserves to join the Marines. In Nov. of 67 I had been training with the Fort Garry Horse (10th armoured) on a weekend exercise and rolled a jeep which left me injured and I left my unit a year later. I went down to North Dakota ( I think Minot ) with a friend to join the US army. I wanted to get into the 11th ACR since I had learned to drive M113s and operated the 50 cal. and other weapons. I mentioned my injury and that was it. I couldn’t get in of course I was disappointed.
I sit here and think of what if. I know that this may be weird to you that I should write to you and say this stuff . But I feel like I owe something to the Americans who have helped us in our time of need.
I like the brotherhood of Canada and United States in a military way. Especially in Afghanistan . Please take note that I never knew that our flag was at Khe Sanh but now I`m very proud to be Canadian knowing that my country men had done something that I wish I could have done. I will one day get to Washington and see the wall. I thank you in advance if you could forgive me for not having fought in Vietnam.
Wayne Nafte, May 23, 2011
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FYI I was on the last Pedro flight with Lt Col Bergold at Udorn RTAFB in Sept 1975. I also have pictures of the last Pedro formation flight. I was the last Med Tech (Aeromedical Technician A901X0) to be trained on Pedro. I was stationed there from Jan-Sept 1975.
Thomas E. Wolf CMA (AAMA), SMSgt, USAF(Ret), May 13, 2011
Executive Trustee, Washington State Society of Medical Assistants
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I came across your website, talkingproud.us, and especially enjoyed reading about the Blind Bat missions you chronicle. My dad, a C-130A flight engineer, flew Blind Bat missions. He doesn't express much interest in the past anymore, just as I am becoming most interested in it.
One story you mentioned concerned a C-130 flare mission in which the crew had to deal with a balky engine while completing the mission. I think the crew on which my father was a member topped that one night. They flew on just two engines. It is chronicled in the citation for the Distinguished Flying Cross he was awarded for participating in that mission. Just like you write, his crew was tasked with lighting up an outpost in danger of being overrun. I will let the citation speak for itself:
T/SGT JOHN N. OMAN distinguished himself by extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a C-130-A Flight Engineer near a classified area on the night of 18 January 1969. On that night, while engaged on a strike/Control/reconnaissance mission, Sgt Oman and his crew were tasked with providing flare illumination for friendly ground forces who were under heavy attack. Due to the imminent threat of the friendly position being overrun, Sgt Oman and his crew were forced to shut down two of their engines to conserve Fuel in order to enable them to remain in the area Despite heavy and accurate antiaircraft fire, Sgt Oman and his crew flared for the friendly troops throughout the night and were directly responsible for preventing the loss of a friendly position from hostile attack. The professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty displayed by Sgt Oman reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
It is all the more remarkable to me after I read your account saying the Herk was designed to fly on three engines under certain loads. I am very proud of my father, never more than for night. For him, an Irish immigrant, I am sure, on one level, it was just a job. But I know at one time he was very proud of his tenure as a C-130 crew member, a position that took him all over the world, even to Timbuktu, literally. Anyway, I love to to know more about the mission that January night in 1969 — where it occurred, the other crew members, the actual aircraft he was flying, etc. Is this something you can figure out, or should I just go to HerkyBirds.Com and post something? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this and thanks for your work.
Noel Oman, May 12, 2011
PS Though I would admit to skimming at times, one thing I didn't see specifically addressed in your articles was how much communication could occur between the Blind Bat crew and the folks they were helping on the ground. In other words, would they have real time communication with the soldiers at the outpost and know precisely how precarious the situation was or was that communication occur somewhere else and the Blind Bat crew only knew second hand? Thanks.
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Use of laser designator on C-130A Blindbat missions. I was the aircrew commander on Blind Bat 02 from Dec 69 to June 70. I was tasked with a F-4 from 8th TAC Fighter Wing to hit a road switchback on a high karst in Laos in early 1970. The laser designator was mounted and bore-sighted on the night observation scope used by the navigator on a platform out of the right paratroop door. The laser was placed on target and the F-4 released a 2000lb paveway over my aircraft and it intercepted the beam and made a direct hit. I would be interested to read your article. B-57G models took over our missions and had hunter/killer capability with the lasers.
Joe Tucker, May 8, 2011
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Enjoyed your article on the 11th Cav in Viet-Nam. I remember well their arrival and subsequent fine performance. A comment about two photos in the article, marked as being M48 tanks in an urban area. They appear, instead, to be 76mm gun M41 Tanks belonging to the ARVN - check the long overhanging bustle of the turret and the bore evacuator at the end of the main gun.
Edward N. Voke, April 25, 2011
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Thanks for your nice spread on the P-38, especially the pictures of the guys -- much appreciated. One thing Hollywood can never duplicate is that healthy state of scrawniness exhibited by shirtless WW2 GIs. I believe the plane identified as a Zero in "Japanese aircraft shot down" is actually a Mitsubishi Ki-30 "Ann" light bomber provided originally to the Royal Thai Air Force. The U.S. wasn't the only participant dumping obsolete equipment into the CBI theater, and the "Ann" made even Vultee's "Vengeance" look good. No wonder the P-38, although always in short supply, ruled in the CBI.
Tom Brown, March 31, 2011
Editor’s note: Thanks Tom. You were right on the Ki-30. I fixed it. Thanks for the tip. Good eye! I just completed an article about my old outift in Thailand. We flew aboard the EC-47 over Laos. I may have taken it out, but I know at one time, having gone through multiple albums of the guys in the outfit, the word I used was “motley.” So that was my word for “scrawniness.” I got chewed out by a wing commander once when he saw my guys at pre-mission brief. It was like he wanted them showered and shaved with after shave on, boots shined, deodorant on etc. I reminded him of what we learned at jungle survival school --- the main way they find our downed pilots was through smell. He backed away from his chewing, reluctantly so.
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Superb article about us (Det 3, 6994th SS EC-47s) and the mission we accomplished over there. It is reassuring that we have people like you that want to keep the story alive for all of us. Thank you,
Stephen Brady, March 31, 2011
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I am a Korean citizen living in New Jersey. I just wanted to thank you for your insight on the subject of Koreans in Vietnam. I was always interested but didn't take the time to do the research and when I did, it was never as eloquently put. I don't spend too much time reading on the computer but it seems like I will be now. Glad I found your site - the water to the sponge that I am. Thanks.
Steve Lee, March 19, 2011
P.S I just realized as I was writing this email that you have a section on "worthwhile quotes". Just wanted to share one of my own:
“It’s not the quality of the steel, it's the lives that sword has taken.” (Forget who you are, it's the shit you've been through that defines you.)
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I found your article about the 11th ACR and Cambodia while using a search engine for another topic. I must say, it is one of the most accurate and well written summaries of what things were like in 1970. I was with the 409th Radio Research Detachment, a cover name for the 409th Army Security Agency Detachment. We had our forward observation base in Quan Loi, and had one track in the field performing Low Level Voice Intercept, which was an excellent source of intelligence. It was a 4 man track with two Vietnamese linguists. I rotated back and forth from the track to Quan Loi.
I remember participating in the defense of an attack on the 2nd squadron/11th ACR at Ft. Defiance, southwest of the Fishook. Hill 98 on the maps. Later interviews with POWs indicated it was a battalion size operation, and the plan was to overrun our location. We had 2 KIA's. Numerous NVA KIA's. We were getting hit quite often during those 2-3 weeks before the incursion. The odd thing was that about 10 days before the incursion, we were watching COSVN and other Central units, (69th NVA Artillery, MR7 command, etc.). They were entrenched just inside the Fishook for several months. All of a sudden, they started moving to the Northwest. Every day, the fixes were farther and farther. At the time the US leadership knew this was happening, but we went in and did destroy many supply depots, and got very good intelligence. The 541st MI detachment was overwhelmed by the volume of documents we captured. I think it took COSVN, and company a full year to recover. Enemy contac! ts in War Zones C & D were reduced considerably. I often wondered how COSVN knew to move out past the 17KM zone 10 days before the incursion. I can only assume that the NVA had very good intelligence sources in Saigon, most probably from the ARVN planners.
I still keep in contact with several of our unit members.I will forward to the link for the web page. I am sure it will trigger some long forgotten memories. Thanks.
Regards,
Don Dauphin, March 2, 2011
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Nice article about Uncle Ernest. I still remember him from stories my father told me when I was a kid.
Editor’s note: Michael is talking about Major Edward Ernest "Hoss" McBride, USAF, Raven 30, a forward air controller operating in the Secret War in Laos. He was known as the "Singing FAC." Major McBride was KIA in Laos by enemy fire November 27, 1968. See our story about the O-1 Bird Dogs.
Michael L. McBride, Esq., February 2, 2011
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I read your archive on Black Sunday. I was there as a Forward Observer (13F artillery scout) from 1-82FA attached to 2-5 Cavalry which was my unit I had been assigned to for two years. The 2ACR had not been in Sadr City for most of the previous year and failed to tell us so our guys went out on a patrol to see what the city was like. I remember the fighting started out of nowhere. We did not know what was happening. When the first rounds of Brads and hummers and an LMTV rolled in me and my best friend were getting out gear together to go volunteer to help. We saw them unload the bodies while we were being briefed by our PS. Then they had to get more ammo and people to go out which is why it took about 30 min - 1 hr to get enough people and vehicles to go out. We weren't ready because the reports from 2 ACR had been that the city was quiet. We didn't have any gear just ammo and our rifles when we went out. That was it. Our PS didn't even know where we were, we just jumped on a bradley we told the bradley guys we were dismounts then we jumped in we were the only two in that brad. There were so many wounded and killed it was hard to regroup to launch a counter attack in a timely manner being that the QRF had gone out and gotten shot up which was the LMTV that had come in. Col. Volesky is an honorable man I would follow him anywhere. God bless you and all those soldiers that fight.
In the end we are all dead men. All that we can hope for is that while we were alive we did what was good and right. Even if it meant that we gave everything, even our lives.
Sgt. Christopher Badilla, Sadr City
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Great article on the Cambodian Incursion. Just a note for any future reprints. The 2/47th Mech was in the 9th Infantry Division and the 2/34th Armor was in the 25th Infantry Division at that time. True, the unit started out with the 4th ID in 1966 but later on the 4th ID and the 25th ID swapped their 3rd brigades. The 2/34th Armor went to the 25th ID and the 1/69th Armor went to the 4th ID. It is also an interesting fact that the 1st Cavalry Division claims another "First" in its' bragging . . . . as someone else that was OPCON to them crossed the Cambodian border for them - First!
Denny Cherry
2/34th Armor Combat Medic - 70
Cambodian Incursion Veteran
December 26, 2010
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Google found me on your site (The Battle for Buttons). Very cool! Thanks for what you do and for the focus of your work: Talking Proud! We need more of that in our country! By coincidence, I have a lot of military on my mother's side of the family, and their family name is Marrack (similar to yours, at least in pronunciation, I'm guessing). Keep up the great work!
Ty Dodge
December 22, 2010
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I am the daughter of Dr. Floyd M Burgeson, who was a fellow POW at Oflag 64 in Poland. He was the Chief Medical Officer. I have a lot of information that I would like to share with someone who knew him. Please write if you have the time. Thank you for all the work you have done to build your site, (and your story on Oflag 64). It is too bad my folks are gone. They would have appreciated it as well.
Nancy Anderson
November 12, 2010
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I thank you (for your report on the B-52 crash at Utapao and the Pedro rescue effort). I was a witness to this incident and participated in the clean up. To this day I did not know there were any Air Rescue survivors. For some reason when I saw your report it was like a ton being lifted from my back. Thanks again,
Chuck Neely, 635 MMS, Utapao, RTNB, 1969-70
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I was a Bird Dog mechanic (SP5) with 184th RAC from May 68 to Apr 69. I spent most of my time at Duc Hoa so I didn't see much of the Co HQ at Phu Loi. I do remember the Third Platoon "Third Herd" as having a horses head on the cowling. I was in the third Platoon. At times our aircraft were at Duc Hoa and could very well have been seen at Tay Ninh, fuel was where you could get it. Time has taken a toll on my memory as far as tail numbers but we did have dog's with teeth on them. Great site.
J. Oney, SSgt, USA (Ret)
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I just want to thank you for all you do for us veterans....
Bill Tkacs
October 19, 2010
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Currently stationed at Fort Bragg, going through a couple of different courses. I was looking for information on Nuristan, since I lost a good friend there, and because I might walk similar ground in the not too distant future. As a military history major, and an officer with a very personal investment in this fight, I just wanted to say how incredible your website it. It is far and away the most detailed source of information that I can find on specific firefights and engagements, especially the Shuk Valley engagement.
With your permission, I would like to use some of the text for a wall of heroes citation at my unit. This is a hardcopy thing, viewed only by other students and Cadre members; it will never be posted online.
Very Respectfully,
Capt. Morgan Brown, USA
October 15, 2010
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I want to tell you how much your information (about the 1-9 Marines) has helped me and my Mother these last few weeks. You have given Honor not only to My Mother's only son...but have included Greg (Martin) in your article.
It is with Great Sadness in my heart,to let you know of (Greg’s) Mother’s (Marge J Tatum) peaceful but sudden passing yesterday at 5:32 AM, Thursday Sept 16,2010 in Encinitas Scripps hospital.
You gave Mother "what I now believe to be".... "Her final comfort in knowing her son's life was not in vein". That he is to this day, thought of in loving & honorable consideration.
I am struggling in my mind to convey to you my deepest gratitude for all you have provided in your attempts to bring a much needed and long coming under standing and closer. My Mother, I and my Family wish to Thank You and let you know.... you are now part of our history for your unselfish dedication to Our fallen loved one and all those who have given their lives for our country.
Thank you,
Sincerely Cindy Lou Taylor (Martin/Tatum) “God Bless You Always"
September 17, 2010
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Had a look at the site today--hadn't been on it in a while. I think it is great! Very good articles, photos, and layout. I can understand why a lot of people give you credit for this excellent source focused on American heroes. Thanks for all the effort.
Jim Hocking
August 11, 2010
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Thank you so much for “Talking Proud.” The many hours that Mike (late brother) and I spent reading and discussing your stories - good times. The info on Blind Bat 01 brought us to you. Your other stories kept us. On the anniversary of Mike’s passing, I am sending a token ($100) to help the site. So, for Mike, Tom Mitchell and the Blind Bat 01 crew, thank you for your work.
Paul Bradshaw
July 7, 2010
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You may remember that I contacted you several months ago regarding using accounts in my book about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, I'm glad to say that the book has now been printed with the accounts included: Blood, Sweat and Steel: Frontline Accounts from the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq, 1990-2010
ISBN: 978-1847735133
Published by New Holland
Again, many thanks for your help in making it possible.
Many regards
Pete Darmon
www.peterdarman.com
July 7, 2010
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Prior to re-designing this web site, I had received and posted hundreds of Letters to the Editor. With the re-design now well underway and the new site published, I want to get this going again. You can your letters to me using the “Contact” section, or send them to me by e-mail --- just click on the “Ed Marek” name in the copyright line at the bottom of this page.
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William Mason, commander Blind Bat 01
I am the grandson of William H. Mason, the commander of Blind Bat 01. I am happy to say that we buried my grandfather's remains last Sept. in Arlington National Cemetery. My Grandmother, Irene Mason, plans to attend the mass funeral sometime later this year. I wish that I could attend but I’m currently stationed in Germany and will be unable to go.
James Lovalto
May 16, 2010
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Becoming a WWII fighter pilot
Thank you very much for adding this article to your archives. I learned a lot from it. I have done quite a lot of research on the subject of pilot training in the USAAF during WW !!, (I have been interested in WW II since early childhood) and found it interesting that even in mid-1941 pilots generally received only 9 months training before receiving their wings. Pre-flight wasn't added until early (Feb, I think) 1942. I was interested to learn how much longer the training for Captain Wergin was.
I look forward to visiting your web site often in the future. And I was wondering what type of aircraft you flew. Thank you very much for your help and for your service.
Best Regards,
Gloria Vanasco
May 5, 2010
Editor note: I was the operations officer for enlisted crews who flew in the back end of EC-47 electronic reconnaissance missions, mostly over Laos during the Indochina War. Officers flew the aircraft. I would fly with my enlisted aviators, who handled all the electronic equipment, as an observer as often as I could to be sure I understood first hand what happens up in the air.
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Thank you for your Oflag 64 story
I would like to thank you for helping to keep our country’s history alive. This is an incredible web site! I didn’t know there was so much to be found on Oflag 64. I am sending you the letter and photos to I sent to Elodie Caldwell, maybe you can use them in the future. Dad was a POW for 18 months and spent most of his time at this camp. Thanks again for your efforts and patriotism.
Tom Detmers
April 13, 2010