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to go to my accounts of my military history both Air Force and Army
Reserves. |
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| Check out my new online photo album filled with pictures from my military
years. |
| I added extra pages to Port Moresby and Wewak, New
Guinea due to the large photo collection provided by Doug Wilson. Doug
was one of my two housemates in Wewak. |
Click on picture to go to
that photo gallery. |
Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado '59 - '60
2nd Phase Basic Training, Electronics School, Bomb-Navigation Systems
School B-47
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Off Base, Denver, Colorado '59 - '60
Lowry's location just outside Denver provided easy access to many
activities and places to enjoy. |
Chanute AFB, Rantoul, Illinois '60 & '64
Weather Equipment School (Cross training), Weather Equipment School
7-Level |
Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio '60 - '61
Det. 1, 4th Weather Group Field Maintenance Shop, Servicing Weather
Stations in East Central US |
Tinker AFB, Midwest City, Oklahoma '61 - '63
6th Weather Sq (Mobile), Upper Air Weather Soundings, Tornado Alley,
Sferics Network, Weather Support for Special Projects & Nuclear Tests. |
Greenville AFB, Mississippi, Summer '61
Support of Sferics Network at one of five sferics sites in
US. My first TDY at 6th Weather Squadron (Mobile).
Malden Island, South Pacific '62
Operation Dominic Nuclear Tests. Six months on a deserted island with 30
guys. Great food.
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands, NZ
'62
4 days stay on 9 day round robin flight to numerous South Pacific
Islands. Paradise on earth. |
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
'63
Support of Photomapping in SW Pacific. Site for RB-50s which flew the
lines. A lot of Air Force People stayed here. |
Port Moresby, Part 2
'63
Additional pictures by Doug Wilson who I shared a house
with in Wewak. |
Wewak, Papua New Guinea
'63
A weather support site on the Northern Coast. Also a supply point for
photomapping stations. |
Wewak, Part 2
'63
Additional pictures by Doug Wilson and of our trip to
Maprik, a jungle village. |
Pease AFB, New Hampshire '65 - '67
Det 6, 8th Weather Squadron providing weather support to SAC's 509th
Bomb Wing.
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Air
Weather Service as a Weather Equipment Technician. Although most of
these pictures are mine, there are some which I acquired from someone else,
such as the pictures that were in my booklet from Malden Island, and some
which I took after borrowing a camera from an English gentleman at Rarotonga
in the Cook Islands. I also borrowed his bike to make the trip around the
island to take pictures. Some were photos and some were slides which I
scanned into my computer and enhanced. Some were damaged by water and I was
able to recover some of those, and a few slides changed color over time,
after about 40 years now, and I corrected those. And some from Doug Wilson
when we were in New Guinea.