By the odometer in my car, it is just over 6 miles from the Fort Worth Stockyards (Billy Bob's) to NAS Fort Worth. The H-34 is just inside the gat...
Colleen, your message was forwarded to me on regular e-mail by Popasmoke. I just sent you a reply to that. I fully agree with Norm's comments about ...
Wally, this poem really shows how fast attitudes can change. When I was an instructor at Marine Corps Development and Education Command in the early ...
Hooper, the pilots of the first aircraft were Larry burrows and a co-pilot whose name I can't recall. Ken Smiley and John Sitton were in the second a...
Hooper, I have one correction to your comment about names. Phil Strickland was the "Black Stallion" in 461. George was always called 'Gabby' so far ...
I served with some Aussies when I was assigned to Advisory Team 3 at Hue in 1966. There were, and are, good people. I have an uncle who worked in A...
I believe that the Sikorsky test pilot was Pat Quinn. At least that's who I talked to about the loop and roll flight when I toured the Sikorsky plant...
MWSG-17 was also at DaNang at that time. They may have been the other unit involve.
The VNAF had H-34's in 1962 in the Soc Trang area. We had many operations with them and I had them in several stand-by flights that I led. They went...
Thanks for posting this, Norm. I have a small newspaper article about the award, but I had never seen the citation events until now.
Tom, Sally and I are saddened to hear about Joanne. She was a great lady and a joy to be with. We feel privileged to have known her. Our deepest sy...
Sorry Norm. Like Joe Weiss, I remember the incident, but have no pictures. I was in the 1st Div TOC, ARVN in Hue when it happened and listened to th...
Curt, the NATOPS manual says: Curved main landing gear tread-12 feet 0 inches; "V" leg main landing gear tread 14 feet 0 inches.
Al, the misconceptions mentioned at the start of your treatise know no bounds. Locale: NAS Barbers Point, HI Scene: ...