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Record Number: 1474
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Posted: March 9, 2010, 7:15 pm
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Name: James N. DeWilde
Found: James jr. sent me the link
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
67 -71
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
1953rd Communications Squadron
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Air Traffic Controller (forgot AFSC)
Comments:
I was on duty in the old control tower in 1968 when the quake hit Misawa and a T-33 pilot questioned why the runway was moving. We made a couple of emergency broadcasts and closed the field to all traffic. We rode it out a few minutes, then the emergency lighting pack jumped off it's shelf. That was enough and we hustled down the metal stairwell (run down three steps get bounced back up one or two). All three controllers on duty exited safely only to find the entire RAPCON crew yelling for us to get out (like we could hear over all the other noises at the time). The book that we lost had some very interesting pictures of the bottom Hachinoe Bay and then the tsnaumi flooding everything and putting ships on to top of the dry dock buildings (I think that was 15 to 20 feet above a normal high tide. A lot of Aomori was also flooded by the waves as well as anything along the beach. We were operating out of mobile control tower for a long time after the quake.
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Record Number: 1473
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Posted: March 9, 2010, 6:46 am
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Name: James DeWilde Jr.
Found: Just surfed on in
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Location: Port St. John, Florida
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Comments:
My dad was stationed there. Don't know when we arrived, but we left in '69 when I was 6 yrs old. I found the site while looking for info on the quake of '68. I have passed the link to my dad.
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Record Number: 1472
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Posted: March 8, 2010, 11:02 am
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Name: dennis porter
Found: Found using a search engine
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Location: terre haute, indiana
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
10/72 to 2/74
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
traffic management office passenger section
Your AFSC in Misawa?
60230
Comments:
Anybody remember a Steve Danko from Appleton, Wisconsin?
If so, please let me know at dapshe@verizon.net Thanks
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Record Number: 1471
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Posted: March 8, 2010, 10:53 am
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Name: FREDDIE TADLOCK
Found: Found using a search engine
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Location: KANSAS CITY, MISSORI
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
01/72-06/76
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
B Flight
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Admin
Comments:
I was a Sgt. in the Air Force. I was assigned to the "Hill" and worked with the B Flight and Personnel.
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Record Number: 1470
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Posted: March 5, 2010, 4:43 pm
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Name: Art Roberts
Found: Found using a search engine
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Location: Tariffville, CT
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
03/62-03/64
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Base Photo Lab
Your AFSC in Misawa?
23250
Comments:
Between photo lab duties and my hobby of ham radio, I was aware of "the hill". I really enjoyed my time at Misawa. Coming right out of high school and spending 2 years in Japan was a fantastic learning experience. I never got to go there, but have talked with a number of people of the years who were there after I was, so I got to keep up on the doing there. I have great memories of that special part of the world, and really enjoy reading the memories of others too.
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Record Number: 1469
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Posted: March 2, 2010, 4:57 am
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Name: Daniel F. Angelozzi
Found: Helen sent me
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Location: Uhrichsville, Ohio
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
06/71-12/73
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
USNSG, Section 4
Comments:
So many great memories of my tour in Misawa I don't know where to start. Had my first child "made in Japan". Made so many good friendships I feel that I have a second huge family, it was just quite a unique experience. I would love to return some day and see all the changes in the last 37 years or so. One of my fondest memories being base football champions-GO NAVY!! Again I would like to say that my time in Misawa is something I will cherish forever.
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Record Number: 1468
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Posted: February 28, 2010, 5:38 am
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Name: Brad Keeler
Found: A friend sent me
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Location: Angeles City, Pampanga Province, Philippines
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
1971-72; 1980-84; 1988-91
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Trick 1; Charlie Flight; Baker Flight
Your AFSC in Misawa?
207X2
Comments:
I was asked a few times to check this site out from friends in the past but never got around to it. Turns out to be a great site and it certainly brought back happy memories. I'm still in touch with about 20 old Security Service and ESC people now. I live in the Philippines now (for last 10 years). I was married to a wonderful Japanese lady from Hachinohe for 25 years before she passed away in 1998. Now married to a fine woman from the Philippines. Have a great son, 36 y/o and a beautiful daughter, 4 years old. Heading back to the states in 2 more years for good and will start my 3rd and final leg of traveling around the world for the final few years. Keep up the outstanding website. Take care to all the past and present Security Service members. Brad
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Record Number: 1467
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Posted: February 27, 2010, 1:30 pm
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Name: kevin carberry
Found: Helen sent me
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
1958-1960
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
interaction group - analyst
Your AFSC in Misawa?
20250 and 30330
Comments:
hoping that i can find some of the people i worked with.
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Record Number: 1466
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Posted: February 26, 2010, 4:33 am
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Name: Jerry Dodd
Found: In the book "Insomnia Mimatsu"
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Location: Otisville, NY USA
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
6/68 - 6/70
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Naval Security Group
Comments:
Misawa changed my life. I was a member of the Naval Security Group and you guys really out-numbered us.
I knew a lot of people when I was there, Japanese and military. I lived off base. I remember a sailor and his girlfriend that I visited often. They seemed to be a perfect couple. One day, Tiahaco came to me and said where is Steve. He had received discharge papers and left the day before.
When I told here this, I could see her heart was broken. That night, she overdosed on some pills and knocked a candle over in her house. She burnt to death. And Steve will never know.
This haunts me to this day. I told myself that I would make up for it somehow. I did, as before I left I married a wonderful girl named Sumiko (Yoko) who worked in the Florence.
We were married 38 wonderful years until she just passed away last February. Now my heart is broken and I know it ever will be the same.
Misawa stated as an assignment, became a magic that can never be replaced and gave me the most important treasure I will ever have - my Sumiko.
God Bless all who served and the entire community of Misawa that were our temporary family away from home.
Jerry Dodd
USN Security Group
Memories
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Record Number: 1465
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Posted: February 23, 2010, 1:37 am
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Name: William Giesler
Found: Found using a search engine
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Location: Penn Yan, NY USA
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
10/84 - 12/85
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6920 ESG
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Morse Systems Operator
Comments:
Loved Misawa, have alot of great memories from my time there!
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Record Number: 1464
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Posted: February 21, 2010, 10:42 am
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Name: Stuart Levey
Found: Just surfed on in
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
07/60-06-62
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6989th Security Service
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Y20250
Comments:
I just stumbled on this site by accident. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who served at Misawa at the same time I did and were assigned out at "the hill" as I believe it was refered to.
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Record Number: 1463
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Posted: February 17, 2010, 10:38 am
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Name: Richard Gramarossa
Found: A friend sent me
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Location: Madisonville TN
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
10/62-05/64
Your AFSC in Misawa?
29150
Comments:
I belong to KAS60-61 and found out about this site at our last reunion, and was interested.
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Record Number: 1462
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Posted: February 16, 2010, 9:33 am
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Name: Henry Chipman
Found: Found using a search engine
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
09/1963-07/1967
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6921 SW
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Army 98G (AF 20371-1) 05H/05K (AF 292x1/292x2)
Comments:
Worked in MCPA/P with another two ASA members and two NSG Navy members. Our section was eventually sent to be colocated at the 6988th in Yokota, Japan. There I went TDY to the 6924th SS in Da Nang, and later to Cam Rahn Bay. Many fond memories of Misawa. In fact my present wife was later to be stationed at the USAF Hospital there in Misawa, about 30 years later.
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Record Number: 1461
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Posted: February 14, 2010, 4:38 pm
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Name: Barbara Hacker
Found: Just surfed on in
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Location: Newport News VA
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
July 1973 to Jan 1975
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Able flight Sand w center and Printer analyst
Your AFSC in Misawa?
202
Comments:
I w3as one of the first WAF to be assigned to Misawa. Recognized JOdy Cotton's Picture. Other assignments wer at Osan, Chicksands.
Ft meade all as a 202. Then we and got my Commission and stayed in the command. My last assignmnet was at Langley AFB wher I opened the CSG and retired in Virginia in 1992
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Record Number: 1460
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Posted: February 9, 2010, 10:46 am
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Name: Richard Main
Found: My nephew AF Ret. found it for me
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Location: Westminster, CA
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
10/63-5/65
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6921 USAFSS I think trick 3 but we moved around.
Your AFSC in Misawa?
Non-morse IO 20392? & Flair 9
Comments:
I was behind the Green Wall. Can't remember the numbers anymore, but some of the entries are bringing back some great memories.
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Record Number: 1459
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Posted: February 9, 2010, 9:14 am
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Name: Kenneth Barre
Found: Helen sent me
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
11/69/12/72
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6921 st Trick 4 I think
Your AFSC in Misawa?
292 non morse
Comments:
we lived off base until they moved F-4's to Korea, then bought house in the trailer park area, then sold it back when moved stateside.
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Record Number: 1458
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Posted: February 9, 2010, 5:27 am
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Name: denzil cobb
Found: A friend sent me
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Location: Seward, NE 68434
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
Jun 1959 - Jun 1961
Your AFSC in Misawa?
29150
Comments:
Enjoyed my stay. remember the snow storm where we could walk out the two story windows right onto the snow. I remember the earthquake. Won a stero set from the raffle we use to have for the Orphanage.
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Record Number: 1457
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Posted: February 8, 2010, 8:49 am
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Name: Richard (Al) Runk
Found: Reunion notice
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Location: Indian Harbour Beach Fl
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
62 65
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6989th trick 3 i think
Your AFSC in Misawa?
R29350e
Comments:
Left the hill to go down main base 6th D.A.S.F.
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Record Number: 1456
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Posted: February 3, 2010, 11:00 am
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Name: charles stockman "bunns"
Found: Just surfed on in
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
61 62 63
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Trick 2 6989th RSM
Comments:
Hey Donald, are you D. K. Miller from trick 2 imi and did you pop popcorn in the barracks causing the fire trucks to be called to the Hill ? If that's you, we served together in super one with Sgt Spencer, Airman 1st Scott, Walter Padillia, Fred Vega, Walter Hrubesky, Coy Tucker, a guy we called Hep, another named Menefee, and others whose names I have forgotten.
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Record Number: 1455
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Posted: February 2, 2010, 6:43 am
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Name: Donald Miller
Found: I am already signed in
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Location: Winter Garden, Florida (12 Milles West of Orlando)
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
April 1961 - April 1963
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Trick 2 (6989th RSM)
Your AFSC in Misawa?
29251 (Ditty Bopper)
Comments:
I have fond memories of my tour to Misawa! Because I was still quite young, I raised a little hell from time to time! But, I remember bowling, softball, cross country sking, exploring the caves, playing the slot machines at the static club, raiding the old farmers corn field behind the barracks and building a fire to roast the corn, the machi, the josans, driving to lake towada, riding the trains and getting bombed on saki, going to the cherry blossom festival and going different places with our house boy. I remember the chow hall was great, especially on the mid shift! I remember waking up one morning with a inch of dust all over the bed from a wind storm we had. I remember being on a mid shift when the lights at the compound started swaying back and forth from an earth quake! Probably a lot of you have the same memories!
Guestbook Administrator's Comment:
[DutchNote -
Many of us share most of those memories, Don. It was a great place to come of age. Good to see you checking in!]
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Record Number: 1454
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Posted: January 28, 2010, 1:41 pm
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Name: John Buettner
Found: Helen sent me
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Location: North Port, Fl. USA
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
1970--- 1973
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6921 Security Wing
Your AFSC in Misawa?
23270
Comments:
One of the best assignments anyone can have. NCOIC of SS and Base Photo Labs.
Visiting town like Towada,Hirosaki Castle. The town of Misawa itself, all the eateries around.
From Misawa we went to Foreign Technology at Wright Patterson AFB, then to Hanscom AFB, Ma. Where we retired from the USAF in 1975.
Would do it all over again ( except for one year in SEA ) if we could.
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Record Number: 1453
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Posted: January 25, 2010, 6:06 pm
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Name: kenneth tibbs
Found: Just surfed on in
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Location: leavittsburg ohio 44430
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
86-88
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
432 security police
Your AFSC in Misawa?
81150
Comments:
searching for friends, randy hughes,tony drewics/angie drewics, steven truss, mark richardson,julie leafbrower
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Record Number: 1452
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Posted: January 20, 2010, 3:25 pm
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Name: Caroline Gurkweitz
Found: Found using a search engine
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Location: Fremont, CA, USA
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Comments:
My daughter-in-law has asked me to do a little research about her paternal grandfather, Delbert L. Gosser. He was also known by Del and Deb Gosser. As near as I can tell he was a pilot in WWII, Korea, and was still active duty in 1962. He died in an airplane crash on January 5, 1962 at Misawa, Japan. But I don't know if he was stationed there or flying in from another base. Does anybody remember that plane crash or serve with Gosser? You know what they say--it's a small world. My son was in the Air Force and served at Misawa in the early 1990s.
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Record Number: 1451
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Posted: January 18, 2010, 7:51 am
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Name: John Forsythe
Found: Helen sent me
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Location: Waupun, wisconsin
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
12/67-12/69
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
6921st. Trick 1
Your AFSC in Misawa?
292 Morse Operator
Comments:
I really enjoyed my tour in Misawa and seeing some of the old pictures of AP Alley, the '68 earthquake, etc. brought back a lot of memories. I do remember that Trick 1 dominated the interflight sports leagues and I have a unique patch that says "Trick 1-Triple Crown Winner, Softball, Basketball, Football 67-68". Some of the things we did (good and bad)while I was there will stay with me forever. I would appreciate hearing from anyone that I knew there,drank and caroused with. That time has gone by quickly--oh, to be young and foolish again.
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Record Number: 1450
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Posted: January 17, 2010, 3:22 pm
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Name: C Snay
Found: Found using a search engine
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Misawa tour/s of duty (mm/yy-mm/yy)?
Civilian 6/68-5/71 6-75-3/78
Misawa organization/s (include Flight or Trick if you remember)?
Father was in the AF
Comments:
Just happened upon this very interesting site, I was looking for information on the 68 earthquake. I lived in Misawa with my parents first during elementary & junior high then the last time was after highschool. As a young adult living there I remember alot of the hangout/bars that I saw in the photo galleries. I also worked in the BX and thouroughly enjoyed working with the locals and learning their culture. I hope to go back to Japan some day to visit, after viewing the recent pictures I can see that alot has changed. Thank you to those of you that have put this site together.
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