Gene O'Neil - FE (1969) |
Dan Downey - IO (1969) |
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Photos for this section courtesy of:
Jack Grolla |
Barracks Picnic |
Photo taken 28 March 69 with Aircraft 129. Crew
was from the mission of 27 March 69 where the
aircraft was hit in the right elevator by 37mm
just southeast of Tchepone while attacking a
large truck. F-4 escort destroyed the gun
emplacement.
Front Row – L to R: (Crew positions on 27 Mar
69).
SSgt. L.C. Branum - Gunner, Sgt. Thomas A.
Griebel – Gunner, Sgt. Albert J. Dilts – Gunner,
Sgt. David Hayes – Gunner, SSgt. Vincent
Marrazzo – IO.
Back Row – L to R:
Maj. William T. Crafton – Table Nav, Capt.
Lawrence E. Flinn – IR, Capt. Maurice D. Galey –
Aircraft Commander, Maj. Charles F. Spicka –
Co-pilot, Capt. Roy L. Costly – Student IR,
Capt. Gerald M. Harris – NOD,
MSgt. Thayne L. Milby – FE. |
Enlisted Barracks Early 69
Before A/C |
Typical Bed Area Before A/C |
Who am I? |
Battle Damage |
Fast Pitch Softball Champs |
20 MM |
7.62MM MiniGuns |
Bug Control! |
Base Chapel |
Base Theater |
Flare Launcher |
20MM Bins (Aft Guns) |
F-4 Flightline |
Barracks Life |
Early Ultimate Fighting Championship? |
Relaying |
Fast Pitch Softball Team 1969 |
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Ubon Temple |
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Thai Housing |
Thai Housing |
Thai Movie House |
Ubon |
Moon River |
Moon River |
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Patch Given to Original Crew Members
1968-69 |
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Photos for this section courtesy of:
Al Dilts - The First Spectres at Ubon
1969! |
2 SAMs |
AC-130 taken 11/68 |
3 GI's on the Mun river: Thai guy-unknown, Standing
up-Dennis Kurjack, Middle-unknown,
Cool dude with shades and shirt-
Robert M. 'Mike'
Thompson
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May68-May 69 |
May68-May 69 |
May68-May 69 |
May68-May 69 |
B-52 over Loas? |
May68-May 69 |
We have all seen this cool painting! |
Cockpit Pic |
Cockpit Pic |
Names Anyone? left to right, At edge of pic-unknown, Dennis
Kurjack,
Robert M. 'Mike' Thompson,
Behind me-unknown, Unknown, Joe Horvath,
Bruster Powell, Unknown, Unknown, Front left-Roger
Daugherty,
Front right-unknown
PS: Unknown translates into "can't remember" |
TDY Orders to NAHA for PM |
Names on back of TDY to NAHA Orders |
"The Ho Chi Min Trail" |
Ubon POL Tanks |
From left, Lang,Irving Ramsower (pilot),EWO,GUNNER,Charles
Kendle (AG), Dennis
Haltom, & Dave
Sutphin,
BOTTOM FE Larry d Taylor. IRTV,TV,GUNNER
Does anyone know who the other men are? the
date for this photo must be before march 1971 |
Photos for this section courtesy of:
Robert Thompson |
Last mission Left to Right Msgt Minton (gunner), Sgt
Bob Buckman (gunner), Sgt Dwight McGrath
(gunner), Sgt Larry (last name unknown)
(gunner), Sgt Tom Hoza (gunner), Tsgt M (willy)
Smith (gunner),In back (with bottle) FE name? |
Last Mission Wash down L-R Tsgt M. Smith,
Msgt Minton, Sgt Tom Hoza |
Remember The Party Wagon ? 1970 Ubon |
Last mission : Sgt Bob Buckman (facing camera),
Ssgt Humphrey (back to camera) |
Wall from Squadron building, Ubon 1970 |
Air Force Times Article |
Photos for this section courtesy of:
Thomas Hoza, Ubon 69-70 |
Spectre arriving in Korat 1974 |
Some of Spectre's finest, (Gunners)
(l
to r) Robert Wolfe, Curtis (Radar) Rodenhouse,
Robert Rewolinski |
Stop on trip to Bangkok from
Korat 1975 |
Barry Wilkins supervising
the "Klong patrol" |
Worm Warner and Dave Burns
at Temple in bankbook |
1975 As ever |
Photos for this section courtesy of:
Dave Burns, Ubon |
Crew
Picture Back Row 1? 2 table nav Woody Nelson 3
Copilot Ed Lafon 4 ? 5 ? 6? 7 ? 8 ?
Front Row 1
AC Chuck Mays 2 IR Kent Kjelstrom 3BC Lee Derosa
4 ? 5 FE Dan Friedlander.
That's as good as my aged memory can recall. |
That's Frank
Lewis on the left, I can't remember the guy with
the clippers name. |
That ought to be enough to scare any bad guys. |
Dan
Friedlander on HOG Watch for Ben Hurt's
champagne party. |
Spectre
Joe,Dave Hays,Jed Smith(Foco),Ed
Lafon,Woody Nelson (crew 4) and Larry Taylor &
FE from another crew debreifing at the hooch. |
Jim Smith
(IO) and Chuck Mays relaxing at the hooch after
a mission. |
Ed Lafon, Kent Kjelstrom, Chuck Mays, and Jeff
Bastar getting for lifeguard duty for Dan
Friedlander (I needed them) |
Dan
Friedlander getting a haircut at the bar in the
barracks. Frank Lewis doing the honors. |
Lee Derosa (BC), Spectre Joe Albright (AG) Dan
Friedlander (FE) Dave Hays (AG) and Ed Lafon
(CP) Crew 4 in the hooch after a mission. |
Left
Jim Smith (Smitty) IO & Dan Friedlander have a
brew on an off night
Above Photos Courtesy of
Dan Friedlander |
Roy
in the middle, I believe Roger
on the rt. ? on left |
Note: missing leading edge |
Overhead Ubon RTAFB |
High
above Ubon |
AC 130 parking |
- 029 at rest |
On the way out of Ubon |
Just
prior to taxi to take-off |
Thai helo |
The tower |
Another Shot of her |
Thanks goes out to this group |
Entrance to the Lair |
F-4's Night Lights? |
Front of Victory Dance card |
Back side - I hoping
she doesn't need this! |
I don't remember tail #
but note damage outlined in
white caulk |
Photos for this section courtesy of:
Roy Hanville |
AC-130A 0046 on her way home 1975
Summer
of 1975. They were taken on the ramp at Korat
as we were preparing to leave in June of 1975.
In the crew photo, Navigator on left Jim Carlet.
Center was Walt Holloway, aircraft commander.
On the right was Bill Cook copilot. |
AC-130A 0046 on her way home 1975
Jim Carlet, "The
trip was full of fun things and took almost a
month since the aircraft had lots of problems".
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Photos for this section courtesy of:
Jim Carlet |
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