Ralph says he was assigned to Detachment 2, 6994th Security Squadron as a Morse Intercept Operator at Pleiku and NKP Thailand from 1967 to 1969.

Continues; Delighted to find this site. Remember a few names such as Dale Zoebisch(as I remember his intercept console received a bullet from ground fire...forget whether he was getting a few winks before having to turn the equipment on and start nailing charlies), Johnny Cordova(always first in the bunker and champion gas passer...phew), Ehrhorn who extended and extended ...possibly mission record holder, Barry Moore who I am still in contact with...lives in Florida, remember a tall kid named Bartlett-good basketball player, Thomas Bodley (the gambler) who was my cubie and usual crew mate, Fred Daring who came to the barracks stinking worse than Johnny Cordova's gas. Fred had been drunk and disorderly, got into a fight- and got kicked out of the special forces camp club and thereafter fell into a binjou ditch before finding his way back to the barracks...Fred went on to fly those extremely dangerous missions in Korea that few troops would volunteer to fly after the Pueblo incident, etc.

Remember two guys who got killed...Sherburn went down in Laos and Cole...forget where/how Cole was killed. I later got out of the intercept work and into the communications field where I eventually ended up a communication computer programmer.. retired from the USAF after 20, finished college...been a programmer ever since, etc. However, nothing I ever did was as rewarding and exciting as the work in 'Nam. Thanks for creating this website...I'll pass it on to a couple of the other guys whose whereabouts I am still aware of.

Best To You,Ralph A. Brown

Jim writes, I was a SSgt at Nha Trang, Det 1, 6994th X-Y Operator. Got there in Sep. 66 and was sent PCS to Tan Son Nhut in Late Nov. 66 and departed there in Sep. 67 for 6988th Yokota AB, Japan in the RC-130 program. There were about two or three of us in the same situation, started at Nha Trang and sent to Saigon to finish our tour. We were able to come back up to Nha Trang for the 1st anniversary event. That is most of the pictures that I sent and few beach shots. I sent two flyers, one of the Anniversary Banquet and the other of the Memorial Service for Tide 86.

TSgt Leftwich was my supervisor and we lived in the same Villa #8 Le Lai. SMSgt Red Harrison also lived in the same Villa. He is in one of the photos and I named all the slides "Red Harrison" so I could track of them when I was scanning them in. Airman Land and Reese were my flying partners for the short time I was there.

When I arrived at Nha Trang we did not have any aircraft, we got a couple in and I think I only got in 4 missions before I was sent to Ton Son Nhut. I finished up with 146 missions, took all the R&Rs I could get to Japan and made the trip back to the PI for Jungle School. Did several TDYs up to Hue Phu By (sp).

I remember on the first 4 flights.. day mission, bad weather low clouds, we got caught up in valley with high mountain terrain and we pulled "many-many-Gs" trying to turn and get out of there.....wonder if anyone else remembers this flight? If you were on it I don't think you have forgotten! It was probably in late Oct. early Nov. 66, it was one of the first few flights flown in the new aircraft. I was certainly new to the flying business but I think even of the flight deck there was a little concern from the old pros.

Jim's Email Address is: jwillis20(at)satx.rr.com

Bob says he was assigned to the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut as Flight Engineer, Stan/Eval from August, 1967 to August, 1968.

This is a great site. I tell all my friends that if they want to know what I did in Viet Nam to check this out. I found out about this when I read about the reunion (which I'm planning on attending) in the legion mag. I just got a computer so I now have an e-mail address & would like to hear from anyone that remembers me. In the picture that Jim Partons daughter sent to you, I'm the one you couldn't identify.

Bob's Emai Address: verdowr08 (at) aol.com

Charlie saw the reunion 2002 notice in an Air Force paper and called to check on the reunion, and chat a bit. He was in on the early part of the EC-47 operation and served as Operations Officer under 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron Commander John S. Allison from April 1967 to April 1968.

Charlie does not have email capabilities but his Postal address and phone number can be found in EC-47 Association Roster on this site.

The information on Lockwood was supplied by Charlie McGugan. Lockwood was an aircraft commander with the early days of the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron. At this time I do not have an email address for him, but his Postal address is listed on the EC-47 Association Roster on this site.

Preston left the following in the guestbook. Says, he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron at Tan Son Nhut, in Mission Status - Compilation/briefing in 1970/71. Wants to know what happened to the 94th Cougar painting that was in the Commanders office.

Samual left the following in the guestbook. Says he was a Navigator with the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Pleiku and Danang in 1969/70. Says he would like to hear from some of his old flying buddies including Bill Gibbons and John Bronson.

Sam's Email Address: [email protected]

Jack was a Captain with the 361st Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Nha Trang and Phu Cat as a Pilot and SEFE in 1969/70.

This additional information received this morning, Feb. 27, 2002.

One of the great things about the net is discovery. I had just finished reading several books about the great airman who guided the air corps through WW II and got to thinking about my own experiences in SEA so I searched for EC-47 and there I found your wonderful website, too good to be true. Here is a little bit of my story as Prong 21.

I reported to the 361st as a First Lt. pilot in Mar 69. The unit was still at Nha Trang. By the time I made Capt I was an instructor pilot and served as the ass't training office and was also the movement coordinator for the unit relocation to Phu Cat. Everyday the squadron give me two birds that we had stripped the rear stations out of. During the day we'd fill them with all our squadron stuff and when a crew got back from a normal mission we put them in the cargo bird and send them north. We'd fly two to four loads a day up to Phu Cat. When it was all over, it took about 40 sorties. We moved everything we owned on those flights except engine stands and the commander's jeep. The jeep went by boat only after I gave up trying to get it through the C-47 cargo doors. I knew they did it in WW II but we just couldn't the jeep to swing around of the tines of the forklift correctly.

My favorite move story was about finding bed sheets. Phu Cat said they didn't have any and Nha Trang said we couldn't take the ones we had. One of the flight engineers went to work on the problem. In about a week he came to me and said to send an empty airplane to Dalat where a Vietnamese Army unit had hundreds of sheets that had never been unpacked. The South Vietnamese want to trade their sheets for a U.S. Army 2.5 Ton truck. We got the truck from a U.S. Marine outfit by trading them a bunch of aircraft tools. We got the tools from squadron maintenance section. I didn't want to know how the Marines got the truck and I never ask who drove the truck up to Dalat. I hope it was a marine.

At Phu Cat I became a Standardization and Evaluation Flight Examiner and served in that capacity until returning to the States in Mar 70, While at Phu Cat my first in country navigator was killed when one of our birds lost the primary power converter on an instrument approach back into Phu Cat one afternoon. The plane was under radar control at about 1500 ft less than 10 miles from the end of the runway. The problem was they where right in the edge of a thunderstorm when they lost power to the flight instruments. The weather was rough for the next week and or commander Lt Col Kennedy and the recover team had a difficult time finding our crews' remains. I'm so thankful you had the crews' names on your website. It took the squadron about two weeks to settle down after this accident. It was the rainy season and we would spend a good deal of each 8 hour mission flying IFR. None of us wanted to do that considering the accident and the unlikely ability to fix targets under these kind of weather conditions.

Because of the accident there was a safety of flight field modification implemented. You may remember that the alternate converter was in the tail of the aircraft and the nav or flight engineer had to back to activate the unit if the primary failed. I think the modification called for the activation switch to be moved up to the front compartment.

I have good memories of that year in SEA. During my tenure with the 361st we didn't do a yearbook but your site had both the one just before and after my time. Thanks for the memories.

After my assignment on the EC-47 I returned when back to MAC as a C-141 pilot and spent the rest of my career in that command serving as a stan eval pilot in a squadron, numbered air force, Hq MAC and then moved into the rated supplement as both a Security Police commander and aircraft maintenance squadron commander. After the Air War College in 1983 I become the Director of Assignments for MAC and then went to the Pentagon as the Director of the Personnel Plans Division. When I hit 20 years I retired and become a Baptist minister. I've since retired again and just garden.

Jack W. Shelton Jr. Col, USAF, Retired

Thornton says, I was a 1st Lt. at Grenier Field, New Hampshire in 1968/69. I was TDY from Eglin for 11 months to Grenier Field where we were working with Sanders Associates outfitting the C-47's and then flying them over to Vietnam. The crews were TDY and took over a month to ferry them over. We lost one in Alaska while I was on this tour of duty. I left this assignment and went on to Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam.

Scott found the site and left a bit of information on his father's tour with the EC-47's. His father is now deceased but served as a Pilot with the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut from late 1969/70. Scott says his father may have been also known by his nickname "Butch". Scott's postal address is: 113 Glenwood Ave. Stafford, VA 22554

Ronald left a little information in the Guestbook. Say's he was a Navigator with the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at NKP in 1971. A Unique and interesting assignment.

Earle says, I was a TSgt assigned to Detachment 2, 6994th Security Squadron at Pleiku as NCOIC of the Communications Center from August 1966 to 1967.

I came to Pleiku in Aug 66, when I arrived only the CO Capt. Earnest L. Short was there and possibly one other NCO. No airplanes no operations building. We lived in tents. In the matter of a few short months we had our buildings, airplanes and crews arrived and more importantly to me we had a up and running Communications Center. What a wild scene all that was and what memories all this has brought back. Thank you.

Earle's Email Address is: earleg22(at)verizon.net

Howard say's he was assigned as a Radio Operator to the 6994th Security Squadron at Pleiku and Tan Son Nhut from March, 1970 to March, 1971.

I arrived in country in March of 70. Spent 3 months in Pleiku. Transferred to Tan Son Nhut in June when Pleiku was closed. Most of the squadron was transferred to Da Nang except for 5 or 6 sent to Saigon.

Was originally scheduled for my check out flight on CAP 53 but got cancelled because it was considered an inactive area from a targeting standpoint and would not have tested me adequately on the X console.

I thought I had Mel on the site and so did he, but I could not find him so I asked him to give me his tour data.

Mel was a 203 assigned to Detachment 2, 6994th Security Squadron at DaNang fro June 1970 to June 1971. He flew 150 Missions aboard the EC-47's.

Says, I wasn't a career man. I enjoyed my time, and treasure the memories, but 4 years in the Air Force was enough for me.

I have just read about the proposed TEWS Reunion in Dayton on 10-12 May 2002 and would like more information about it. ,P. I was in the 360th Tews at Tan Son Nhut in 1972 and flew the last USAF mission out of Saigon. Lt. Col David H. Eddy who flew the first TEWS flight for the 360th TEWS on June 6,1966 flew as my Co-pilot on the last mission.

John says he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron at DaNang as an Airborne Morse Code Radio Operator from November 1971 to March 1972.

Bruce says he was assigned to the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut and Pleiku in 1966/67 as a Navigator, 'one of the worlds best'.

Skip was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron as a Radio Operator at NKP from Janurary 1973 to December 1973.

Retired in England in December, 1986. Once in a while I have seen Joe Kessler who lives in Luton Beds. Would like to hear from Ken Luecke, ex room mate and anyone else who I served with. Please say Hi to anyone else who remembers me. Also, a special hello to my good buddy, Dick Burda, Skip.

Bill says he was assigned to the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Pleiku and Danang as a Pilot from May 1970 to May 1971.

What a great idea, I hope to hear from some of the old crew at Danang.

Bill says he was assigned to the Detachment 1, 6994th Security Squadron as a Communications Analyst at Nha Trang and Phu Cat from 1 August 1969 to 1 August 1970.

Thanks for the Site.

John says he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron at Tan Son Nhut as an Airborne Intercept Supervisor from 10/03/67 to 09/03/70.

Johnny R. Jones (J.J.) Johnny says he was a Crew Chief assigned to the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at DaNang during the last part of his tour in Vietnam. February 1971 to February 1972.

When I originally went to Vietnam I was statined at DaNang on the C-123K Ranch Hands 311 TASS (OLAA RATS). When we transferred the C-123's to the VNAF, I moved over to the EC-47s 362TEWS. I crewed one of the Mini Mods (491). A great bunch of guys and a great aircraft. I remember James Jones, Pete Randolph, Puckett, Pugh, Stolz and many others. Had a good TDY with my aircraft up to Thailand (Hell raising time there don't you know). Once again great site hope to be able to attend one of the reunions. Take care. JJ

Ron says, he was assigned to the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut as a Pilot from November 1968 until November 1969.

Others with AAL that I remember are, Jim Hardy, Jack Wiley, Chet Nunn, Banda, Blatnik, Mo..., Revoir, Vandermolen. I later flew C-123's in Central America. Now I just putt around the flagpole in the C172/82. Look me up in ACY.

Ron's Email Address: rhanson2(at)juno.com

Paul says he was a Flight Chief with Aircraft Maintenance with the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut from October 1967 to October 1968. Would like to hear from friends.

Howards says he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron at Tan Son Nhut as an Intercept Operator from April 1971 to May 1972.

Howard's Email Address: hgbarnard(at)hotmail.com

Phone: (405) 816-4067

In a letter received today, March 27, 2002, Buck writes, This is old Buck, former 1st Shirt of the 360th TEWS an outfit I just loved even while our orderly room was located on the Flightline with an outdoor latrine. And inside the office, we were invaded by rats and whatever. Don't recall the names of the rodents, but if you filed anything in the desk, the next morning you may find it in shreds.

Sometime later we did move out and into and office building. It wa indeed a great outfit with a very fine commander, had ] permission to make one mission flight into the next foreign country. After that, I never asked to make another.

Spent four tours plus an extra year in Vietnam for a total of five years, was but got to remember, I did not serve in the Army Infantry or the Base Police who were just great.

I do no traveling except to drive to Randolph Air Force Base where I do volunteer work at the clinic averaging over 2600 hours a year.

Did not intend to bend your ear so much, but I shall close by saying I love all you guys and do hope you have a beautiful Reunion.

P.S. I am single at the ripe age of 81. My best and prayers BUCK