Looking for Lost Red Lions from HMM-363

04-21-2007, 15:59 mike sullivan

ACSS.... If I recall correctly, Tom Cranna died of a cerebral brain hemmorage, while still on active duty, well over 30 years ago. Sorry to send that type of a response. Tom was a great guy and a good friend.... Mike Sulivan

04-23-2007, 12:50 lkjohn

Is GySgt F S Burnett the one and only "Smiley", maintenance chief in '65 and '66? If so, he has passed on. Paul Moore could give you a time frame on that.

Larry W. Curtis might have been with the squadron in '65 and '66 (flight equipment, I think) although a lesser rank at that time. I exchanged an e-mail with the Larry Curtis from that time frame just before the 2000 reunion, while he was an association member. He lived in Santa Ana at the time and never showed up for the reunion.

We had a Captain (maybe Major) Grimes, maintenance officer, during my late '65 to early '66 time with '363. Carl Boley would know a bit more about him.

You have done an amazing job of putting names together and finding squadron mates.

Lowell Johnson

04-23-2007, 14:39 Norm Urban

re:Wayne H Gentry
I believe Gentry was killed in a Bell helicopter crash as a civilian in Alaska. He was me roomate for a while in Laguna Beach in 1965.

05-31-2007, 16:13 pm3777

Sorry to say, Smiley is Deceased years ago from heart attack. SF PM
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05-31-2007, 22:19 thomas.zuppke

Haven't talked with him for a few months, but Tom Amis is hunkered down in J-ville, NC
Name is in the phone book, if I remember right, he lives out near the White Oak School district.

Hooper

06-01-2007, 16:59 Larry Grimm

M. J. Donovan was a MARCAD but I don't know what ever happened to him. Hop this helps some.

06-01-2007, 17:28 accs

Thanks Larry.... I am aware that there is/was a MARCAD but I have recently found out that there was an enlisted Michael J Donovan that was not necessarily a squadron member, but did fly with the squadron late '68 and with the core of guys that still were 'attached to H&MS when the colors came home. I had brief contact with him via email but he seems to not want to participate.... I am still trying to find all that flew with the Lucky Red Lions in that time frame of 1960's before it became HMH..... for our squadron database and history.

06-03-2007, 11:25 Crazy Joe

Brook:

We had a "Swede" Severson in 363 when we were at Phu Bai (I think Phu Bai). As I remember he passed the test for pilot and was sent to Marine Barracks Boston when his tour was over. He waited there for orders to Pensacola to become a MARCAD. I remember that one day one of his friends in Maintenance got a letter from his parents saying that he was killed in a car accident on the Baltimore Washington Parkway on his way to P'cola. That would be Spring/Summer of 1968 by my reckoning.

"Crazy Joe"

06-22-2007, 11:24 Dit Man

Doc Juliano made appermenent RTB not long after the 2000reunion at 'Dago
Dave J Allen was living in Indiana; I last spoke to him 2001 just after he fell out of a tree he was trimming with a chainsaw.
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Brook: Russ Guliano HM3 died a couple of years ago. He attended reunions and was from NJ. Budster

Sgt Koster

I cannot verify this. However some several years back, I was told (can't remember who told me) that Sgt Koster had died in California.

Anyway, You guys are doing a great job in pulling the Red Lions together.

Frank Bonin