Thank you to all Vets, past & present!I have not done this in awhile, so, I hope it turns out ok.
Just Remember, I ain't no JACK COOK!
All Photos USFG unless otherwise noted.
Thanks Dad LT Charles F Stuart JR
381st Fighter Squadron
363rd Fighter Group
9th AAF
WW2
111 Missions
Stuart Photo
U.S. Navy North American SNJ-5C Texan assigned to Carrier Qualification Training Unit (CQTU) 4 at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station Barin Field, Alabama (USA), crashes on board the carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) in the Gulf of Mexico. Date 1953.
The first six U.S. Air Force "Able Mabel" pilots from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan, at Don Muang RTAFB, Bangkok, Thailand in front of the McDonnell RF-101C-65-MC Voodoo (s/n 56-079, "Mary Ann Burns"), in December 1961.
Front row (left to right): 1Lt Fred Muesegaes, Maj Ken Harbst, Detachment Commander (45tj TRS Ops Officer), 1Lt Jack Weatherby;
Back row (left to right): Capt Ralph DeLucia, Capt Bill Whitten, 1Lt John Linihan.
Muesegaes, Weatherby, Linihan and Whitten (in chronological order) flew the RT-33A previously on "Field Goal". On 29 October 1961, four RF-101s and ground crews from the 45th TRS were ordered by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to deploy to Don Muang ("Able Mable Reconnaissance Task Force"). The aircraft were reay on 7 November and began flying reconnaissance sorties over Laos the next day.
Date December 1961
The U.S. escort carrier USS Anzio (CVE-57) rolling in heavy seas of the Pacific Ocean, probably in 1945. Note the casual attitude of the deck crew. A Grumman TBF (or TBM) Avenger is visible on the left, a Grumman F4F (or FM) Wildcat is tied to far end of the deck. Date 1944/45 Source U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News November 1945
: "U.S AIR FORCE B-26 GETS NEW ENGINE. This B-26 receives a new engine to put it in top shape for further missions against the North Korean Communists. Sgt. Paul Cable (standing) from Gastonio, North Carolina, and Corporal Arthur Beauregard, from Danoby (Danby?), Vermont, recondition this U.S. Air Force plane.: ca. 09/06/1950"
U.S. Air Force personnel from the 188th Fighter Squadron, New Mexico Air National Guard with a North American F-86E-15-NA Sabre fighter (s/n 51-12988) in 1955.
U.S. Air Force pilots Lt. Wally Green and Cap. Dick Locker of the 159th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 125th Fighter Interceptor Wing, Florida Air National Guard, race to their North American F-86D-25-NA Sabre fighters during an alert scramble at Jacksonville, Florida (USA), in the late 1950s.
Group photograph of U.S. Air Force Fast Forward Air Controllers ("Wolf FACs") of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ubon Royal Thai AB in June 1968. Drawn from the four squadrons assigned to the wing, these pilots volunteered for the Fast FAC missions. The McDonnell F-4D Phantom II is from the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, and the squadron’s "Night Owl" symbol is just behind the air inlet. Date June 1968(1968-06) Source National Museum of the U.S. Air Force photo 090617-F-1234P-037
The 20 mm guns are loaded on a Lockheed P2V-2 Neptune belonging to patrol squadron VP-5 Mad Foxes on 23 July 1951 at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida .
So That's About It For Now.
Robbie
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