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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:19:14 GMT 8
Just some pictures I've come across. This one is 1953, have no other info about it but thought it was interesting. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:22:55 GMT 8
1946, all of those aircraft that are going to get trashed. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:25:52 GMT 8
Camp O'Donnell, July 46. I think that bright, flat area middle upper center was the cemetery. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:32:53 GMT 8
Clark, 1946. Notice the P-38's on the bottom. I live near where they are. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:50:41 GMT 8
In this picture, July 1946, I can spot R-6 Helicopters, a B-17, PBY Catalina's, an L-5, AT-6/Texan, and a B-29.
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:52:19 GMT 8
Forgot to attach the picture. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on Jan 20, 2013 15:57:26 GMT 8
I believe that is Lily Hill in the back. Attachments:
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Post by okla on Jan 21, 2013 2:26:35 GMT 8
Hey dmether....I coulldn't help but notice the sheet metal structure behind the group of men depicted in the 1953 photo. That building (I use the word "building" with tongue in cheek) is identical to most of the personnel quarters on my base (Suwon) in Korea at that time, 1952/53. I wonder if these structures had some type name, i.e. "Quonset", "Butler", to name a couple from that post WW 2 period. The Engineers would pour a concrete slab flooring, erect wooden framework, and then nail sheets of tin for the exterior walls and ceiling. This "barracks" even has the sheet metal awning over the entrance as did ours in Korea. Most had pulpboard interior walls. They were a bit drafty, but you were inside, away from the elements, luxurious layouts as compared to bunkers up on the MLR. An oil burning stove, sitting in a sandbox, (not needed at Clark, obviously) did heat its' immediate area very adequately, but woe to the guys sleeping further away, toward the entrances at each end of the building. These spaces went to "new arrivals", who worked their way toward the stove as older guys rotated back to the ZI. Seniority usually ruled in such cases. RHIP reared its' head in many instances. Just asking, but that photo certainly rattled my memory cage. If my failed transfer to Clark (also in 1953) had come to fruition, it appears I would have spent another year in such a facility, maybe even appearing in this very photo. 8-)I still regret that my attempt to spend another year overseas at Clark rather than rotating stateside to an AFB in Texas fell thru. Thanks for posting. You always come up with excellent material. Cheers
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Post by JohnEakin on Jan 21, 2013 3:31:23 GMT 8
Breaks my heart to see all those old aircraft and know they became beer cans.
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Post by okla on Jan 21, 2013 6:36:00 GMT 8
Hey Dmether/John.....I am having a tough time identifying what type aircraft those are that are slated to become "beercans". The B-29s, on this side of the strip are obvious, but the others I can't make out without my Sherlock Holmes spyglass and maybe not with it. At this point in time I am perfectly aware that I couldn't fulfill part of my former USAF job as a photo interpreter. I would, now, be banished to the Food Service Squadron. Could those dark colored craft, in the mid-lower right corner be USN/USMC planes??? I am thinking the dark color might be the Navy Blue "git up" that was utilized from the mid point of the Pacific War onward. Of course, those possible USN A/C might be USAAF OD colored. The other light colored A/C across the air strip and out into the "flats" have me stumped. Cheers.
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