Katum_Medic322

A friend\'s son has made this website as a tribute to his Father who participated in these early HALO tests. The final jump on 16 December 1963 from 43,500 feet took the world\'s record away from the Russians. The website lists the names of the Special Forces and Air Force personnel who made the jumps as well as the members of the crew. The C-130B used for the jumps was 62-3487. You should also take a look at the article from Parachutist Magazine. There\'s a link for that. http://www.vistech.net/users/edman/halo/default.html

snipped.... New York ANG LC-130 Flies First Operational Flight With New Props Sat, 27 Sep \'08 Aircraft Equipped With Hamilton Sundstrand NP2000 Propellers. A New York Air National Guard 109th Airlift Wing LC-130 aircraft equipped with Hamilton Sundstrand NP2000 propellers took its first operational flight on Tuesday, September 16, from the unit\'s base in Scotia, NY. The aircraft is the first of 12 New York Air National Guard C-130s planned for retrofit with Hamilton Sundstrand NP2000 propellers. The complete article is at: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=8455a57d-a5f8-49f7-b816-f7e66a431d03&

This may have been THE most popular song during the Vietnam War. There are a number of C-130s shown in the video. Somma y\'all may recognize some of the tail numbers and locations. I know it wasn\'t filmed at Katum (aka: ka-BOOM!!!) \'cause we din\'t have mountains around us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZ-JBbQJIc&feature=related

I can\'t help you with your January \'68 incident on 56-0475 at Katum because that was before my time there. I can, however, show you the demise of a sister to your aircraft. 56-0472 burned on our runway in May 1969. Note: I put up the Red Cross flag on my bunker just as an \"Eff You\" aiming stake for the bad guys to shoot at! Photo URLs follow: http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/56-0472.html http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regpic12.html http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regpic13.html http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regpic14.html http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regpic15.html And another 130 \"gettin\' outta town!\" http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regpic16.html Reg Manning A-322 at ka-BOOM, February - December 1969 Owner / Operator of the Katum OB/GYN/ & Clap Clinic

After looking at the PowerPoint slide show, I got to thinking that the last time I saw that much fire around a C-130 was long ago and far away. 56-0472 was shotup on approach to the Katum Special Forces Camp on 27 May 1969. It landed safely and burned. At the following URL, you can see the result at Photos 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. Photo #19 is a C-130 which barely escaped getting punctured. http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/scrapbook/RManning/mem/regndxpix.html I\'ve ridden many, many miles in the backend of your C-130\'s and it was the best jumping aircraft in the fleet during the \'60\'s, \'70\'s, and early \'80\'s when I was on jump status. While in the ROC, I used to jump with the Chinese Special Warfare Command (SF, Airborne, & Rangers) on the Thursday jumps out of Tao Yuen ROC AFB. They didn\'t have C-130\'s during \'70 -\'72 when I was there so we were giving familiarization training in jumping the C-130. The ROCAF was still equipped with C-119\'s at that time. Those old 119\'s were very easy to jump with the jump doors set at 45 degrees in the clamshell but takeoffs were a bear. Question: Did all the C-119\'s come from the factory equipped with square tires and wheels? That\'s what it felt like during taxi and takeoff. I appreciate what you C-130 folks did for us at Katum despite the risks and losses there. Had it not been for your airlift, we\'d have run out of beans, boots, and bullets. R. T. Manning CSM, Ret. SF, 1966 - 1980

This is a PowerPoint slide show. http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/Misc/C130Crash/C-130crash-29JUNE08.pps

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced Tuesday the remains of two US servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Capt. Warren R. Orr Jr., U.S. Army Special Forces, of Kewanee, IL; and Airman 1st Class George W. Long, US Air Force, of Medicine, KS. Long was buried September 30 in Medicine, and Orr\'s burial is being set by his family. On May 12, 1968, these men were part of a crew on a C-130 Hercules evacuating Vietnamese citizens from the Kham Duc Special Forces Camp near Da Nang, South Vietnam. While taking off, the crew reported taking heavy enemy ground fire. A forward air controller flying in the area reported seeing the plane explode in midair soon after leaving the runway. In 1985 and 1991, US officials received remains and identification tags from sources claiming they belonged to men in this crew. Scientific analysis revealed they were not American remains, but it was believed the Vietnamese sources knew where the crash site was located. In 1993, a joint/US-Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), traveled to Kham Duc and interviewed four local citizens concerning the incident. They led the team to the crash site, and turned over remains and identification tags they had recovered in 1983 while looking for scrap metal. During this visit, the team recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage at the site. In 1994, another joint team excavated the crash site and recovered remains, pieces of life-support equipment, crew-related gear and personal effects. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of the remains. FMI: www.dtic.mil/dpmo (NOTE: The aircraft was C-130B #60-0297 shotdown on takeoff at the Kham Duc Special Forces camp while evacuating the indidge.)