bobdaley Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Updated 12/22/08 I just got 57-0472! Now i need 10. Bob I thought I\'d throw in a pitch to see if I can get some help locating pictures of A Models. Any pics are great but these 11A\'s I have nopt been able to fiind: 56-0474 PACAF A, burned on the ramp at Naha in 1963 56-0476 PACAF A, later NH ANG and RG AFRES bird To SVAF now stored at Tan Son Nhut 56-0477 PACAF A shot down on a Blind Bat flight Laos in 1968 56-0488 Sewart A crashed in the traffic pattern at Sewart in in 1962 56-0510 PACAF A hit mountain in Laos in 1970 flown by Air America 56-0515 USAFE A crashed in the traffic Pattern Bitburg GE in 1965 56-0526 USAFE A mid air in France 1958 57-0467 PACAF A hit a bulddozer on take off Dak To Written off after landing Cam Ranh Bay in 1967. 57-0468 PACAF A crashed in the traffic pattern Ashiya Japan in 1959 57-0472 PACAF A later CA ANG A to SVAF and returned to USAF to US Army at Ft Bragg for a paratroop trainer. May still be there? Could someone at Pope check it out? 57-0475 PACAF A first USAF loss in SEA crashed at Korat in 1965. Since all but three of these were lost before my first flight as a 130 crew member in 1969, 39 years ago, I know they will be hard to find, but I hope there may be some old pics hidden out there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C130H2FE Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 56-0477 is sitting on the ramp at Sav IAP being used as a fire dept trainer right now, it came to Sav in the 80\'s to be used as a BDA trainer but it is still intact. Look at Sav near the middle of the runways near the fire house you should see a lone 130 not far from the ANG ramp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted November 29, 2008 Author Share Posted November 29, 2008 That is not 56-0477 it is 57-0477. Here is a picture. Bob [img size=1000]http://www.herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/3184.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C130H2FE Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Thanks for the correction, only way I remember the tail is we had 79-0477 for a while before sending it to Reno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Bob, Look on the photo page off of my home page at www.sammcgowan.com/home.html. There are several A-model photos on there but the tail numbers are probably not visible in them since some of them are in flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wysongj Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 The link to the website doesn\'t work. I\'ll try typing it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 The link from the page didn\'t work for me either. I don\'t know what the deal is because it works everywhere else. Here are a few A-model pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Another A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 As on ramp This is possibly for the Junction City drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Bob, I think I have some photos of 57-0472. She took some fire while at Naha and I took some pictures. My roommate (Bob Mallot) was the asistant c/c on her at the time. Sonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 Sonny That would be great bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Bob, This is a shot of the C-130 flare mission birds at Ubon taken in May-July 1966. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Bob, Unfortunately, the flareships picture is too large for the Forum. It is on a page off of my home page though. Go to www.sammcgowan.com/home.html. The flareships page is off of my military page. I\'ve got several photos I took at Naha that are scans of slides and the files are too large to post here. I\'ll Email them to you if you\'d like. Gary Peters gave me a CD with some pictures he took on a COMMANDO LAVA mission he was on in the summer of 1967 with several inflight shots of one of the first C-130As to have a squadron ID on the tail. I\'m keeping my fingers crossed that it\'s still useable. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 If the file is not too large, this is a picture of Balls Four on a COMMANDO LAVA picture that Gary Peters took. He gave me a CD with the pictures at the first Blind Bat reunion in Biloxi in 2002. I\'m not sure if I have a current Email for Gary so DON\'T use the photo without his permission. (He gave me permission to use them.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Unfortunately, the file is too large for the Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 Sam I resized the Commando Lava pictures and put them in the Historical section under Commando Lava. If you have any more especially the blind bats please send them to me and I will resize them. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Bob, You can pull the one off www.sammcgowan.com/flareships.html. I\'d send it to you but today is my wife\'s birthday and we\'re getting ready to go out. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 This one should be small enough to come through. It\'s of an Amodel being refueled in a revetment. I\'m not sure if it was at CRB or TSN, but probably TSN since CRB didn\'t have revetments that early. You may be able to get the tail number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 This one was at CRB in mid-1967 just before I left Naha for the States. Note the 0 in front of the tail number and lack of a tail code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 This is an Air Force photo of the ramp at Cam Ranh, probably taken by M.L. Ray. He was the Vietnam editor for the 315th Air Division newspaper. He flew with Ed Brya\'s 35th crew on a mission and wrote an article about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 There are two really good A-model pictures on the TCTAA site that I can\'t remember who took them. One is on the History page and one is on the members page. www.troopcarrier.org/home.html. This one is of an A right after takeoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 J.P. Morgan landing at Prek Lok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMcGowan Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 A-model taxiing out at Don Muang (maybe Ubon.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC10FE Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Sam, Nice pics, but it\'s too bad the tail numbers aren\'t visible in any of them. Don R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herkman Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 good morning all ! Merry Christmas from downunder, do not forget that we get ours the day before you guys. In 1959 the USAF Brought an A model down here, to show all and sundry what we were getting in new year. Serial 57-0468. I will put a posting on the RAAF airman aircrew web site, one of us old timers surely would have taken a photo. The airplane was under the command of a Captain Akers if I recall correctly. If any one wants to see range of photos of Aussie Herks go to http://www.airmanaircrew.com click on the unit badges for 36 and 37 Squadrons and there they are. Regards Col Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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