The pic of gun emplacement has Joe on the gun and Dick Dubois on the right.
The other small pic is Joe on left with Dave Coburn on right.
The group pic: two guys in back left, guy on left is unknown, on right is Paul Cowgill. In front l-r are Larry Cook, Billy Noel, Dick Dubois, Ray Maack, Jerry Cameron, Dave Coburn and Joe Mizda.
Gun emplacement of WW II at Cape Flattery (Bruce)
Site 1948
Site 1948
The General came for lunch.
Meditating (Whitley)
I wanna go home (Little Mack)
Writing the future bride (McLeod)
First Sgt. (Norman Wine)
What - me worry? (Bierbauer)
l-r Suggs, Kiser, Molchin
"A" Crew taken 5/26/55 by Lt. Renfro
Front row - l-r Hastler, Banks, Magel, Hauk, Barthel. Back row - l-r Brodersen, Knuth, Peac, Palar, Tart.
Lake Crescent
From the Pacific towards Neah Bay with mountains of Canada in background.
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From operations on Bahokas Peak looking down on Tatoosh Island with the Pacific beyond.
Bahokas Peak (note radome)
Radome and Height Finder
"Chuck" Comstock of Comstock Airlines - 1954
Winding our way to Operations.
Washburn's says it all.
Broadway in Neah Bay.
But Mama!! They're real indians.
Makah Theatre
Now Playing "Bugs for You" starring "Carla Cockroach"
Welcome to Port Angeles
Annex Hotel
Built over the water!
$1.00 per night.
Conrad's Menu - Check those prices.
Oh, I say I do hear Victoria calling (McCall)
Empress Hotel
Victoria, B.C.
Home Sweet Home
From Entry Lane
l-r Frederickson, Forbes, interior looking back Goldfarb
Route 9
Village of Sekiu
Fireplace log for long winter.
Look at all this white stuff. See what happens when these indians try to do a rain dance. (Weathers and Smitty)
I told you to turn port back there! Yeah, but is port left or right? (Charvarno and Weathers)
Sir, I didn't say you couldn't come in! I said we are not ready for inspection yet! (Suggs)
These two pictures taken from the Yearbook 1963 submitted by John H. Adams MSgt Ret
758th Aug 62 to June 64
NCOIC GATR
Courtesy of Ed Suggs
Courtesy of Ed Suggs
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma, Washington
Command Center and Support Base For the 758th
Main Gate (1950) (Note Mt. Rainier in background)
McChord with Mt. Rainier looming
F-86 being towed on the taxi strip at McChord. Mechanic in cockpit, waving, graduated one year ahead of me in high school in Virginia. Lost contact for a couple of years till I was sent to McChord TDY and assigned to barracks next to his. Was quite a reunion. (McCall)
Ta Ta, ya'll
Washburn's store today. (was burned out 3 times)
Suggs and McCall returned to 758th in April 2006.
Shipped out to Iceland in 1955.
We found half baths added between each two rooms in barracks 6 with ceilings lowered.
We also found barracks 7 to be a motel operated by the Makahs, only $65 per night.
A terrible day in the line of duty for these two Lts.
Bill Forbes just loves his new home.
Smith and Martin
Tatoosh Island
PhotoFanny B-25
One of our controllers who was a pilot, was getting his flying time in a T-33 out of McChord...he flew up to 758th and was buzzing the squadron area at fairly low altitude when he had a flame out...he tried a couple of times to restart and finally with a loud pop and puff of black smoke, she refired and he headed back to McChord. One of the guys on scope tracking him back made the comment that he didn't know a T-33 would fly that fast.
Allright, who did it??? Who took the pot of gold from the Rainbow in Neah Bay???
Leo Katross (Crew Chief) and Jack Strange
Barracks #6 Break Room
l-r Thweatt, Suggs (wearing hat), Larsen (jacket with fur collar), Kiser, Hauk (jacket with fur collar), Katross, Mulchen, Strange
McCall and mechanic from home J. Hairfield
Mt. Rainier: How could anyone visiting or stationed at McChord ever forget the natural beauty of this Mt., some 35 miles away. While on TDY to McChord, I had the opportunity to visit the Rainier Lodge for dinner one evening. The Manager gave us this saga: During WW2, an Army Air Corp plane enroute to Fort Lewis, crashed on Mt. Rainier. It was carrying $200,000 in cash for the payroll at Fort Lewis. Where it crashed was in a pass near the top with wind currents so strong that a helicopter could not reach the site. The story goes that the plane is embedded in the glacier and will slowly melt down. It is reported to come out the bottom of the glacier in the early years of 2000. (McCall)
This F-86 pilot is just saying hello to our Canadian friends
Look what this F-86 jockey found to play with
The B17 was a classic
If you were flying a MIG and saw this wild strange thing coming at you, what would you do????
Do any of you remember seeing a 2-place TF-86? Only two were built. The first one flew in December of 53. It crashed in March of 54. A second one was built and flew in August of 54. It was used as a chase plane at Edwards AFB, California.
McLeod was the only Airman I knew who was on active duty with the Air Force and the Navy at the same time. He says he was on TDY orders to Seattle, WA for a 20 day cruise with the US Navy radar picket ship, the USS Savage.
We believe due to prolong isolated duty status that he conned some of the boys into mounting pontoons on an Air Force plane so he could fly down to Seattle and review the real USS Savage. Some stories do catch up with you after awhile.
1951 Personnel Roster for the 758th
A perfect example of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Hood near Portland, Oregon.
What the pilot, flying out of McCord AFB, sees after breaking through the cloud cover: Majestic Mount Hood.
