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| Current Message 1 - August 19, 2008 |
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Entry: 66948
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
AACS World February 1957 |
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George Haas wrote on 2008-08-19 08:56:45.0
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Keywords: I was stationed on MATCOM Mountain south of Taegu Korea from August 1956 to August 1957 as a Radio Repairman AFSC 30451. The site was "snowed in" in Feburary of 1957. The FEAF AACS Group Newspaper AACS World had an article with pictures published shortly thereafter, my copy was lost by a relative. I would like to obtain a copy for my records. Would appreciate any suggestions on how I can track down a copy. George Haas A/1c AF13545008 August 1955 to 1959
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| Current Message 2 - March 4, 2008 |
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Entry: 64593
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1973RD AACS at K2; May 1954-May 1955 |
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Wayne Jensen wrote on 2008-03-04 03:55:38.0
Comments: I was a radio operator at K2 Tague from May 1954 to May 1955. I worked in the Comm Center taking weather reports from all over Korea every half hour. We were the Net Control Station...AIK33....we also made a blind broadcast every half hour on King Two Homer.
A few guys are here in New England...Andy Calogero from Medford, MA; John Marcello from Lawrence, MA; Paul Dignoti from East Hartford, CT; and Pinky Weinberg from Providence, RI.
Ring any bells? ? ?
Keywords: Nickname.....Skip
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| Current Message 3 - March 4, 2008 |
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Entry: 64592
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
1973RD AACS at K2; May 1954-May 1955 |
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Wayne Jensen wrote on 2008-03-04 03:55:38.0
Comments: I was a radio operator at K2 Tague from May 1954 to May 1955. I worked in the Comm Center taking weather reports from all over Korea every half hour. We were the Net Control Station...AIK33....we also made a blind broadcast every half hour on King Two Homer.
A few guys are here in New England...Andy Calogero from Medford, MA; John Marcello from Lawrence, MA; Paul Dignoti from East Hartford, CT; and Pinky Weinberg from Providence, RI.
Ring any bells? ? ?
Keywords: Nickname.....Skip
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| Current Message 4 - March 4, 2008 |
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Entry: 64591
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
1973RD AACS at K2; May 1954-May 1955 |
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Wayne Jensen wrote on 2008-03-04 03:55:38.0
Comments: I was a radio operator at K2 Tague from May 1954 to May 1955. I worked in the Comm Center taking weather reports from all over Korea every half hour. We were the Net Control Station...AIK33....we also made a blind broadcast every half hour on King Two Homer.
A few guys are here in New England...Andy Calogero from Medford, MA; John Marcello from Lawrence, MA; Paul Dignoti from East Hartford, CT; and Pinky Weinberg from Providence, RI.
Ring any bells? ? ?
Keywords: Nickname.....Skip
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| Current Message 5 - January 27, 2008 |
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Entry: 64052
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K-2 1952 Control tower during B29 crash |
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Richard Baumgartner wrote on 2008-01-27 19:59:48.0
Comments: In passing I noticed Gordon Nelson comments about the B-29 that crashed at K-2 hitting a crane what was at the end of 2,000 feet of unfinished concrete runway. The main runway was PSP, not as easy to spot during a morning landing. The pilot was advised of the active runway to his left of the unfinished runway which was far easier to see. On his final approach he didn't look lined up correct and was advised again. never the less he landed on the concrete and saw the crane just in time to try to avoid hitting it dead on. The crane went between the two engines on the aircraft right side and stopped the aircraft dead in its tracks. the main damage was to the aircraft.
Keywords: 1973rd AACS control tower operator
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| Current Message 6 - October 11, 2007 |
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Entry: 62571
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
1973 aacs sQUADRON |
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wILLIAM fOLEY wrote on 2007-10-11 20:17:10.0
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Keywords: sUWAN, yONPO, kOREA 1950
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| Current Message 7 - March 29, 2007 |
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Entry: 60497
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
TAEGUE K-2 |
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Bob Leitzel wrote on 2007-03-29 13:57:33.0
Comments: I was at K-2 and Tera George and Matcom moutain in the Groud Power Section.
Keywords: K-@
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| Current Message 8 - June 14, 2006 |
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Entry: 57657
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
1973rd AACS K-9 Korea 1953-54 |
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John (Jack) Bradley wrote on 2006-06-14 16:05:37.0
Comments: I was a radio operator 29350 at K-9 towards the end of the conflict.
I am interested in hearing from anyone that was attached to the 1973rd at that time. I have a few pictures...but very few names. My orders and all other papers were lost during a move made in the 1960s
Keywords: K-9 (Pusan) Korean 1953-54 My nickname is Jack I enlisted from Nahant, Ma
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| Current Message 9 - April 25, 2006 |
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Entry: 56835
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K-8 & the 1973rd 51-52 |
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mel kampmann wrote on 2006-04-25 17:03:26.0
Comments: one of my sons found this website and I was amazed at the number of people responding.
Keywords: looking for anyone in AACS tower at K-8 Kunsan l951-52, or Edwards Air Force Base 53-55
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| Current Message 10 - July 28, 2005 |
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Entry: 52315
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1973 AACS K-2 1955 - 1956 |
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Robert Leitzel wrote on 2005-07-28 00:00:00.0
Comments: Like to hear from any of you that was there at those locations at those dates.
Keywords: Served as Ground Power at K-2, and was assigned to Tera George and also Matcom Mountain. Remember Claude Bonner, Sgt Tucker, Airman Nelson and to many others to remember.
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| Current Message 11 - July 12, 2005 |
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Entry: 51978
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Member of 1973rd AACS at K-2 in 1952 |
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Gordon Nelson wrote on 2005-07-12 00:00:00.0
Comments: Stationed at K-2 from January 1952 till September 1952. Was there when B-29 ran into construction equipment on unfinished runway. Worked as CW operator in comm center next to flight line. One of most ineresting guys I knew there was our trick chief TSgt Gregario Luna - a nice guy and a terrific CW operator.
Keywords: Station callsign AIK33. Net callsign was AIK. Worked M109 circuit. Trick Chief was TSgt Gregario Luna.
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| Current Message 12 - December 20, 2004 |
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Entry: 47609
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
Looking For Members of the 1862nd AACS |
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John Schobelock wrote on 2004-12-20 12:50:46.0
Comments: Have been looking for Horace D. Williams and Eugen E Skinner. Also anyone I served with at Randolph in 1952. I worked in the Tower and was Tower Chief.
Keywords: I served in the 1862nd when at Randolph in 1952. From June to December. The unit was only in use from 1 June 1952 to 1 July 1953. The HQ was at Tinker.
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| Current Message 13 - September 25, 2004 |
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Entry: 45992
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looking for leo galvan or galvan |
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joe camacho wrote on 2004-09-25 16:06:25.0
Comments: NO MORE INFO
Keywords: LEO GALVAN OR GALVIN WAS A RADIO OPERATOR IN THE 53rd WEA RECON SQDN,KINDLEY AFB,BERMUDA YEARS 54_56.ANYONE WITH INFO WHEREABOUTS WOULD APPRECIATE CALL. HIS WIFES NAME WAS SHIRLEY AND I BELEIVE FROM OHIO.
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| Current Message 14 - September 25, 2004 |
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Entry: 45991
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looking for leo galvan or galvan |
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joe camacho wrote on 2004-09-25 16:06:02.0
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Keywords: LEO GALVAN OR GALVIN WAS A RADIO OPERATOR IN THE 53rd WEA RECON SQDN,KINDLEY AFB,BERMUDA YEARS 54_56.ANYONE WITH INFO WHEREABOUTS WOULD APPRECIATE CALL. HIS WIFES NAME WAS SHIRLEY AND I BELEIVE FROM OHIO.
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| Current Message 15 - September 5, 2004 |
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Entry: 45642
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
1973rd AACS Squadron |
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Charles Austin wrote on 2004-09-05 20:04:49.0
Comments: I was assigned to the 1973rd AACS Squadron at K-2 Tague. Set up a comm site in the City and was the last to leave when we were over run. Went to Pusan, then Inchon, Wanson, and Chosen.
Keywords: Forward Combat Controllers
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| Current Message 16 - September 5, 2004 |
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Entry: 45637
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
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Charles Austin wrote on 2004-09-05 17:47:20.0
Comments: I was sent to Korea with the Air Force and was assigned as an Forward Air/Combat Controller. The unit that I went in with was a Det. of AACS Mobile Communications. TDY for 90 Days. I was attached to the Army 24th Div for duts as a forward controller, then to the 25th Div, then to the 7th Cav. Then to the 1st Marine Div. I was wounded in the Chosin Reservoi but managed to get back to the lines and was sent to Nagoya Japan to recover, then to the 1st Marine Air Wing at Osaka Japan, Then returned to Korea to finish my tour, Returned to Osaka May 1952 then shipped back to the States.
Keywords: July 1950-May 1952
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| Current Message 17 - May 31, 2004 |
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Entry: 43404
1973rd AACS Sqdn |
K-8 1973rd AACS |
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Milton Edman wrote on 2004-05-31 12:39:22.0
Comments: I was at Kunsan from July (one week before the war ended) until May 1954. As a radio operator, we sent and received weather messages for the attached weather squadron. Still have lots of pictures of guys I was stationed there with.
Keywords: Kunsan by the sea, on the riviera of Korea.
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| Current Message 18 - May 22, 2004 |
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Entry: 43211
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1973 AACS TARE GEORGE |
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Berry Rose wrote on 2004-05-22 16:48:44.0
Comments: Just noticed entry by Bill Blass. I am BROSE and my e-mail address is as shown if anyone is interested. Served from October,1952-October, 1953.
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| Current Message 19 - March 7, 2004 |
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Entry: 41550
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looking for old friends |
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clifton st louis wrote on 2004-03-07 11:23:40.0
Comments: anyone rember me worked in ration breakdown k9
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| Current Message 20 - October 30, 2003 |
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Entry: 37909
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1977AACS AT K9 KOREA |
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JACK W. Carter wrote on 2003-10-30 18:39:17.0
Comments: Radio operator at Aik77 K-9 (Pusan) After a few months back at AIF20 (Johnston AFB) came back to States and assgn. at Barksdale base. Would enjoy a QSO with any of you who were at K9 when we had tents for quarters and station was a a tent, and the base was called "Dogpatch". till the 452th moved in. Charlie R. Bishop, where are you??
Keywords: Orgionaly assigned to K2 Tague, but we were evacuated down to K9 Pusan, orgionaly known as "Dogpatch" AB.
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| Current Message 21 - September 24, 2003 |
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Entry: 37132
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AACS to SAC to Teaching |
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Carl Lutz wrote on 2003-09-24 12:07:11.0
Comments: Radio Operator Aug. 50 to Jan. 52 moving often (not always by choice) between K-9 and K-16. Where is my good friend Gordon S. Hall?
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| Current Message 22 - September 1, 2003 |
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Entry: 36654
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1973 AACS K-6 GCA |
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William Garvin wrote on 2003-09-01 13:17:39.0
Comments: As a Radar tech with 398AAA/AW stationed at K-55 we had no radars to operate so they first sent my group to a mountain outpost (op-5) as forward observers and later to K-6 assigned to 1973 AACS/GCA to use the survelliance radar as our early warning. I remember that the 1973 group was very good to us but the MAG-12 considered us "dirt"
Keywords: Army S/Sgt was TDY to 1973 AACS in May-June 1953
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| Current Message 23 - May 17, 2003 |
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Entry: 34232
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May Day 1953 |
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Jim Blass wrote on 2003-05-17 12:21:37.0
Comments: I just responded to an old message from BROSE who mentioned the ADF Homer site Tare George, Here is what I wrote. By the way his email address is no longer valid.
Do you remember the night a controller was standing guard mount over the May Day weekend when everyone thought that shots had been fired. Well, I was the controller and I flipped a pebble into the air and it hit the quonset hut and bounced back and forth between the hut and the kitchen shack a few times.
It sounded like bullets hitting the sheet metal and all in the kitchen/mess hall turned out the lights and began sneaking outside all crouched over. I was standing with my carbine slung over my shoulder just inside the sandbags and said I hadn't heard or seen a thing.
I wasn't about to tell on myself!
The next day we practiced firing our carbines by shooting frogs in the rice paddy below us.
Jim Blass "BS"
Keywords: Tare George - Taegu ARTCC K-2 and downtown 53-54
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| Current Message 24 - May 12, 2003 |
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Entry: 34140
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K-16 GCA 1954-1955 |
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John Avnet wrote on 2003-05-12 19:36:38.0
Comments: Served in GCA unit at K-16 (Soul Int'l. Arpt.) from June 54 to June 55. Would like to make contact with others from GCA unit.
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Association Website
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999
Hank Sauer Email address wrote:
Our url to our web site is now
AACS Alumni Web
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996
From: rdesmond@jlc.net
Subject: KWP Guest Book Entry
Veteran of war Sept 1950 to Dec 1951- 1973rd AACS. Trying to locate
fellow members of this out to locate members of this outfit to start a
reunion.
John Schobelock
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997
Updated: 12 Dec 2002
Sandra & Bill John Schobelock Email address wrote:
9283 Limerick Rd.
Chillicothe,Oh 45601
614-286-6313
I was in the 1973d AACS Sq. Mats, Air Traffic Control.
I have been trying to find people I was in the service with. Lackland
June 1949, Keesker Tower school, Phillipines 3-1950 to1951,
Guam Air Traafic Control 3 months 1950, Korea 2-1951 to 4-1952,
Randalph Tower Chief to 12-1952
Ernest Herbert Rogers
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997
Debra Boulier dboulier@seark.net wrote:
Helping a friend search for father, who served in Korean war. His name
is Ernest Herbert Rogers. He was in the USAF 1973rd AACS any
information would be helpful
Berry Brose
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998
Brose Email address wrote:
I was in the 1973rd AACS Squadron, 1808 AACS Wing, 1809th AACS Group,
Military Air Transport Service, attached to 5th AF by MATS General
Orders Number 57.
I served in Winter 1952, Spring and Summer of 1953..Most of my time was
at a remote location called Tower George which was a homing site for
the planes from Taegue AFB.
Berry
Squadron member
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999
Hugh Eaton Email address wrote:
I can't believe how much time I'm spending on the site.
I was recounting some experiences by email to a fellow air traffic
controller, and I was literally amazed at how much detail I could
remember about 1952. I hadn't thought about it for so long I thought it
was gone, but it came flooding back as I typed the email. I'm encouraged
to write as much of it down as I can so my three kids can have access to
it. One of my sons in D.C. has really gotten interested in genealogy,
and he's encouraging me.
Thanks again for all you are doing to preserve an important part of American
history.
Hugh Eaton
Palmer Lake, Colorado
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