In article <2017020311104519358-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck says...
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>On 2017-02-03 18:29:13 +0000, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> said:
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>> In article <2017020310015186357-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>> Savageduck says...
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>>> On 2017-02-03 16:26:18 +0000, Old Geezerr <dpspahr@cox.net> said:
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>>>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:26:38 -0500, joet5 <joet5@optonline.net> wrote:
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>>>> Vultee Vibrater.
>>>> Sold surplus for about $125 in the 1950s
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>>> Yup! It was part of my father's WWII training history starting in
>>> February 1943 with the PT-17 at Souther Field, GA, then after 60 hours
>>> (21:15 solo) it was on to Courtland AAF, AL and 84 hours (49 solo) in
>>> BT-13A.
>>> Next was Craig Field AAF and an AT-6 graduating in 43-G.
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>> My father was in 42-I in Stockton CA for AT-6s
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>> For his primary, all his picture album says is "Visalia"...I assume it was
>> Visalia Army Air Field (Camp Visalia)
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>Wikipedia can pin those Army Air Fields down for you:
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_World_War_II_Army_Airfields>
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>>> Advanced was at Eglin AAF in AT-6 & P-40 and Page Field, FL in P-47D.
>>> By September 1943 he was at Dobodura, Papua New Guinea flying P-47Ds in
>>> combat.
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>I have all of my father's logs, records, and orders from enlistment up
>to discharge in 1947. It is quite interesting when one's father shares
>mention on several Fifth AF General Orders credit reports with Dick
>Bong. On those October 1944 Balikpapan, Borneo missions Bong was
>credited with a Ki-102 "Randy" and a Ki-43 "Oscar". Dad got two Ki-43
>"Oscars".
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I have his published class "year books" from class 42-H in Chico and 42-I in
Stockton.
I also have his photo album of 150 or so pics he'd taken of barracks life,
student flying etc.
When I went thru Army flight school in '69 we got zip in the way of class
photos, yearbook etc. If you wanted some remembrance, you bought a handfull
postcards at the PX and that was it.
Four months of basic in Ft Wolters TX (TH-13s, 23s or 55s) four months
advanced in Ft Rutger AL (UH-1s) three weeks of leave and boom...you were
flying missions in VNam.
From training to combat is the same military assembly line it's always been.
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