Ardmore Army Air Field/Ardmore Air Force Base- This I Remember.. Naomi La. Nelle (Nelle) Chambers, a surgical nurse with the Hospital Detachment, were both stationed at the Ardmore Army Air Field in 1. They were married in the base chapel March 3. Friends of my Dad secured an old hay wagon and horses, dressed up like . C-47 Skytrain C-53 Skytrooper Dakota; Role: Military transport aircraft: National origin: United States: Manufacturer: Douglas Aircraft Company: Designer: Douglas. One of the men carried a shot- gun and a sign on the back of the wagon read . At Ardmore he was in charge of field maintenance and was administratively in charge of . My Dad mentioned that if the crash crews could not extinguish the flames quickly, the magnesium wheel hubs would ignite and create large potholes which in turn caused damage to other aircraft when landing. Doc 9156 accident incident reporting manual 1. Dot 9156-AN/900 ACCIDENT/INCIDENT --`,,```,,,,````-`-`,,`,,`,`,,`--- REPORTING MANUAL (ADREP. THE MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM DOUGLAS R4D, DC-3, C-47 FOR FS2002 and FS2004. MAAM-SIM, the all-volunteer flightsim development team of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Organisasjon som arrangerer turer med Dakota DC 3. Turprogram og bildegalleri. AircraftManuals.aero Product Index: 384: A-20G Flight Manual (part# TO 01-40AL-1) 268: A-26A Flight Manual (part# 1A-26A-1 (1B-26K-1)) 9411: A-26B/C Erection And. He was proud that the crash crews from time of crash, investigation, removal of debris and patching of the holes only took 2. There were a number of crashes on site, but most were minor. The crashes were classified unless there was no way to keep them from the public due to their severity. My Mother was at the base when the Martin Marauder B- 2. B- 1. 7s. She remarked to some friends in later years that many or part of the crews survived the B- 1. B- 2. 6 . Another of Dad's duties was to find allowable jobs for the German war prisoners interned at the field. He used to talk about finding work for them in the wood shop repairing window sashes, doors or furniture. They also worked in the metal shop repairing latch sets, lock sets and kitchen equipment. They also did some work around the hospital fixing the roof, replacing glass and repairing a ward after a minor fire. We still have the ice cooler that the POWs made as a wedding gift for my parents. The field commander allowed the POW's to have. What the commander did not know. POW's also sold some of their produce to the service personnel and. One of their customers was my mother (who was. If the commander had caught on to this trade, my father. He was assigned to closing of the field and served as a liaison officer to American Airlines until his discharge. American Airlines were going to move to the field after it closed. ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD. This is a free update to allow owners of the MAAM-SIM R4D/DC-3/C-47 CD or Download Version for FS2004 to install and use the FS9 aircraft in. Douglas A-26 Invader (Variants/Other Names: Douglas B-26 Invader-- Do not confuse with Martin B-26 Marauder. Also JD-1, UB-26, CB-26, DB-26, TB-26, FA-26, RB-26. Paul (Muddy) Watters, e-mail, 13.01.2015 20:07. Whiting Field 1968 - flew T-28 for formation and instrument training. On a solo flight I decided to find put why we. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Style is not compliant with the Manual of Style, and at times confusing. He was hired by American Airlines after discharge and assigned as air field maintenance chief at Idlewilde Airport in New York. In 1. 95. 1 our family moved from Queens to Dallas. Dad's degree in architecture from Texas A and M resulted in his getting into the home construction business. I will share it with both my parents who were stationed there during WWII for nearly two years. ![]() I am sure they will be surprised to see someone has put the information together. I will see them over Thanksgiving and see if they have pictures or stories that you might find useful. Regarding your question about my December 1. B- 2. 4), I asked for information about S/Sgt. Terwilliger who was a close friend of my father while stationed at Ardmore. Through a series of contacts, I ultimately found him alive and well living in Florida. I called him and set up a surprise phone call for my Dad just before Christmas 1. They had both assumed each other had been killed in the war. They had not had any contact since 1. Thanks for your efforts. I would have been between 8 and 1. Dad was a railroad man, working all his adult life for the STL& SF (Frisco) Railway. To our amazement, Bob Ozment and the surviving tail gunner, Cpl. Mc. Clanahan met by an astonishing . Be amazed with us by visiting this link. I was a tail gunner assigned to Crew 8. Combat Crew Training School, Ardmore Army Air Base, Oklahoma. The following is an account of my experiences at Ardmore and as a B- 1. England. The men on the train were given numbers, mine was 8. We went from car to car calling out the number until we found the other nine with the same number. We gathered in the car where our pilots were, got acquainted, and as enlisted men were told what to expect. Not knowing our destination, we traveled four days and nights arriving at Ardmore in the middle of the night. Bombardiers used smoke bombs to record and improve their accuracy. We participated in a low level bombing demonstration during the base . From supply, we went to the briefing room where our mission for the day was discussed. We loaded on 4x. 4s and were taken to the flight line where we pulled the props through, then the engines of our B- 1. We taxied to the runway and waited our turn to take- off. We fired at tow targets for several hours, then headed back to Ardmore. As I recall, there were 1. B- 1. 7s flying in close formation. One B- 1. 7 with officer instructors brought up the rear and advised the pilots as to what to do. This is a difficult maneuver for a large plane to accomplish, especially if in close formation under turbulent air conditions. One of our regular crew of ten was absent due to sickness but we had two extras on this flight, an oxygen instructor and a bombardier instructor. Being the tail gunner, I had a clear view of all the planes behind us. We had let down to approximately 1. The two right engines cut our plane into two pieces just behind the radio room. The front of our aircraft went straight up for a brief moment knocking off the Plexiglas nose of the other plane which pushed us under them knocking off their ball turret. The pilots of 4. 2- 3. Ardmore base and landed safely. I didn't realize it immediately, but I had been thrown several feet backward from the tail- gunner's seat toward the front of the aircraft. Fortunately, my chest chute had also been tossed backward and ended up beneath me. Recognizing that I was near the tail- gunner's escape hatch, I opened it slightly and saw that we were in a spin, not knowing that the front of the aircraft was gone, but realizing that we were going to crash. I opened the hatch, stuck my feet out and clipped my chest chute to the harness which I was wearing. I wiggled my way out the narrow opening, let go, fell for a while and pulled the rip cord. I thought the chute would never open. I was on my back looking up and wondering how far it was to the ground when the chute opened. It jerked me into an upright position and I realized I was still a good distance from the ground. Looking a bit farther down the track I saw an oncoming freight train that would meet me at about the same place and time that I would reach the ground. I slipped to one side and landed in a grove of pecan trees just as the train went whistling by. The dog must have thought I was a raccoon as he kept wanting to get at me. Men from Mill Creek had already extracted the bodies with axes and other tools. My crew members were lined up on the ground. It was a sight I will never forget. All my crew members dead except Gail Pleasant . He was a special friend and combat crew member with me in England. They took me to Mill Creek and left me at the drug store. An elderly woman asked if I would like to go to her house and have something warm to drink. While we were there drinking hot tea, the army arrived. I ran into the street and hailed down a MP in a jeep. After convincing him as to who I was, he got permission from his superiors to take me to Ardmore Army Air Base. He drove so fast that I asked him to slow down. He laughed that I was concerned about a jeep accident but slowed down. We came through the back door behind the podium where Colonel Donald W. Eisenhart, the base commander, was asking questions about the crash. The MP finally got Colonel Eisenhart's attention who asked what we wanted. After learning who I was, he asked if I was OK. I explained that I had hit a limb with my foot and my ankle was swelling. He picked me up, put me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, placed me in his car and drove me to the hospital. The nurse checked my ankle and said I was going to spend the night in the hospital to get some rest. I told them I wouldn't stay. After a friendly argument, the Colonel took me to my barracks. I already had a date scheduled with my girlfriend, Jessica Barnett. She was disturbed that I was late but after deciding I wasn't telling her a big story, she was all right. I asked if Dixie Mason, the other surviving crew member, could go with me and they agreed he could. I could remain on the base as a permanent party; take an honorable discharge; re- enlist as a cadet or go overseas with another crew. I asked if Dixie could be on the same crew and was told he would be. We flew a B- 1. 7 to our assignment in England by way of Grand Island, Nebraska, Grenier Field, New Hampshire, Goose Bay Labrador, and Iceland to Prestwick, Scotland. The officers went to Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England. The enlisted men went to . Bertram Krashes, our bombardier, had been shot down a few days earlier. I found out after the war that both had been captured. We were assigned another navigator and bombardier and started missions as a crew. During this time I flew on makeup crews. I was assigned to Baxter's crew and we flew as a lead aircraft for most of the missions. I never knew the crew very well. I stayed in the barracks that my first pilot Buttorff's crew was in. It wasn't because I didn't like the Baxter crew, I just didn't get close to any of the men. Buttorff's crew and myself had become the oldest crew in the barracks because many of the others had been shot down. We bombed Peenemunde, Germany where they thought the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb. I thought the tremendous explosion from the bombing was going to reach us at 3. Twelve of the B- 1. Bomb Group, 1st Air Division, 8th AF. We were flying lead and from my vantage point, I saw nine of the twelve planes of our group go down. We were hit by flack between our two right engines knocking both of them out of commission. The inside engine hung down at a 1. Baxter and the copilot did a miraculous job in getting the badly damaged B- 1. England and landing safely. We stayed overnight although none of us had been injured. They gave us a good checkup and we were granted a seven day . We had been through enough. There were 5. 4 ships in the convoy, including the Queen Mary. We encountered a storm which made most of us sick and added some time to the 1. GAVIN'S PARATROOPERS and ALL THE WORLD'S COMBAT AIRBORNE OPERATIONS. GAVIN'S PARATROOPERS : THE TYPE OF MEN. UPDATED 1 August 2. Actual Video clip of U. S. Army Paratroopers exiting a C- 1. B Starlifter. Actual Video clip of a C- 1. Hercules combat equipment jumpyoutube. THE RULE OF LGOPs. LGOP = Little Groups of Paratroopers). After the demise of the best Airborne plan, a most terrifying effect occurs on the battlefield. This effect is known as the rule of the LGOPs. This is, in its purest form, small groups of pissed- off 1. American Paratroopers. They are well- trained, armed- to- the- teeth and lack serious adult supervision. They collectively remember the Commander's intent as . I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black- hearted devils are everywhere..! Gavin (played by Ryan O'Neil in the film A Bridge Too Far about the epic battle for Arnhem's bridge to enter Germany and end the war, called . Wedded to obsolete traditions? Who says we have to use silly, useless D & C to instill fighting discipline in Soldiers? Why not in the field like Gavin did? The usmc didn't even put nametapes on its individual member BDUs (camies) until after the Gulf War TV coverage embarrassed them into it. How about this for 1. Mission- type orders not robotics. To win on the future, non- linear urbanized battlefield, where we had only just arrived within hours by AIR will require the Soldiership like that of Chamberlain and his men on Little Round top. These men must be able to communicate freely and truthfully without concern over their ego, peer status or career concerns. More recently, a relatively minor military power that defeated a great modern power- -the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong- -operated in many respects more like a network than an institution; it even extended political- support networks abroad. In both cases, the Mongols and the Vietnamese, their defeated opponents were large institutions whose forces were designed to fight set- piece attritional battles. Most adversaries that the United States and its allies face in the realm of low- intensity conflict, such as international terrorists, guerrilla insurgents, drug smuggling cartels, ethnic factions, as well as racial and tribal gangs, are all organized like networks (although their leadership may be quite hierarchical). Perhaps a reason that military (and police) institutions have difficulty engaging in low- intensity conflicts is because they are not meant to be fought by institutions. The lesson: Institutions can be defeated by networks, and it may take networks to counter networks. The future may belong to whoever masters the network form. However, war is not just a lethal sporting contest among combatants, its about whose IDEAS will dominate, in the case of FREEDOM, in the end the truth has won out over communism. However, if the forces of freedom were more open- minded and . The men who fought in Vietnam need to know that their sacrifices did count- just ask the people of Thailand. But if we are to learn from our war there, we must not make excuses that the politicians . Crete was a costly victory for the Germans because of the . It was still a victory and proof deep Airborne operations can work in spite of no amphibious forces around to help. If you click on the hypelink above or here on Crete, you'll see the Royal Navy sank the amphibious forces that the Allied Commander defending the island thought were necessary to win. Years later, on Grenada the same thing happened, the enemy expected sea attack from marines, but instead, the Rangers and 8. Airborne came from long away and caught them by surprise. The invasion of Panama was a . Dien Bien Phu was a poorly selected firebase in the low ground, many other poorly defended positions have been over- ran that were established by ground and sea transport, also. In the Second Indo- China war, the U. S. Deep airdrops of combat power can work, its what you do afterwards on the ground that is the key. If you sit still, the enemy is likely to gain the initiative whether you walked, flew or motored there. After the Paratrooper lands he must be MORE MOBILE than any enemy and that can be done by speed- marching, solving the Soldier's load, human powered vehicles and airdropped armor. Army Air Service was doing . By the end of the war, we were combining arms as we would have to do again in WWII. Overhead, our planes gave close air support and bombed and strafed supply installations and troop columns in the rear of the German lines. French tanks manned by Americans supported the infantry assaults. The United States Army's first modern battle had begun. Putnam & Sons, NY. Thanks for showing me. Please keep me in mind for future areas of similar style. Although why anyone would want to jump out of a functional aircraft is still a mystery to me- . It is believed that Chinese acrobats used parachute- like devices as long ago as 1. The principle was recognized by several writers, and Leonardo da Vinci proposed the basic idea for parachutes in 1. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a man- sized parachute with a man in mind to be lowered by it, even though no one had ever flown. He visualized it as a tool to escape from tall buildings and structures in event of fire. The dimensions he calculated as necessary to safely land a person 3. A few years later other French aeronauts jumped from balloons. He made a number of exhibition jumps, including one of about 8,0. England in 1. 80. Cocking developed a parachute like an upside umbrella, he felt being upside down it would control oscillations ( to bad he didn't know about an apex hole) He demonstrated in 1. England suspended from a balloon named Nassau, and piloted by Charles Green, who cut him loose. It worked fine at first, but the stiffening tubes started to give way , then a hole developed in the canopy, then it collapsed (it was the first parachute fatality). Thomas Baldwin the younger brother got elected for the task, the brothers took the balloon to 5,0. The first successful descent from an airplane was made by Capt. Albert Berry of the United States Army in 1. In World War I, parachutes were used by observers to escape from captive balloons but were considered impractical for airplanes. Only in the last stage of the war were they finally used in aircraft. She had been jumping since she was fifteen years old. After that jump she was never seen again. The Generals report to the Army was great, but they ignored it, and later American pilots flew into combat without parachutes because the Generals thought they would abandon their planes at the very slightest chance of trouble, hence no parachutes. When it came time to depart the aircraft, they lifted the container from under the seat, stood on the seat and tossed the container over the side, then followed it, a little crude but it worked and all the other pilots envied them, especially since they had to ride theirs down in flames. Young. 1. 91. 8: Isolated French raids in WW I during which two- man demolition teams parachuted behind German lines to destroy communications. But Colonel Mitchell thought of others ways to use parachutes. To him goes the distinction of suggesting the first Airborne parachute assault forces. Army Air Corps during WWI even before they had chutes for American flyers! We could equip each man with a parachute, so when we desired to make a rear attack on the enemy, we could carry these men over the lines and drop them off at a prearranged strong point, fortify it, and we could supply them by aircraft with food and ammunition. Our low flying attack aviation would then cover every road in the vicinity, both day and night, so as to prevent the Germans falling on them before they could thoroughly organize the position. Then we could attack the Germans from the rear, aided by an attack from our Army from the front, and support the maneuver with our great Air Force. The idea came from the mind of a visionary who wouldn't live to see his ideas come into being. But he was proven right. The first use of Paratroops goes back to WWI when Italian officers landed behind Austrian lines for reconnaissance. Army Air Corps flew a field artillery battery complete with equipment to Panama as a demonstration of . Then, in maneuvers near Fort Du. Pont, Delaware, AAC Capt. Gliders had been towed 1,1. All pilots involved were women. The board was headed by Maj. Huffman, who sent letters to known jumpers in the country to demonstrate equipment and techniques that might be purchased by the government. He presented the first free- fall parachute, a concept that required the jumper to manually release the canopy with a rip cord instead of a static line. The Irvin model used a harness instead of a coat. The canopy was thirty two feet in diameter, with twenty four suspension lines. Instead of being extracted by a static line, the canopy was deployed by a pilot chute that sprang from the container when the jumper pulled the rip cord. Irvan proved them wrong by making a delayed- opening jump from 1,5. By 1. 92. 2 a parachute was a required part of the uniform of the military and airmail pilots, and the design remained unchanged for the next fifty years. The Initial collective drop was made at Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, on 6 November 1. CA- 7. 3 troop carriers of the Regfa Aerornautica. The Italians used the Salvator static- line parachute and used no reserve, a policy decision that must have seemed mistaken to the unit's General Gutdoni as he fell to his death a year later, his Salvator streaming above htm m the dreaded . The Russians even had bombers and gliders to deliver tanks and . The French also started in 1. French were defeated before they could use them. They designed what was then called the T- 4 and was the first chute to have four risers so it could be steered. They also developed the reserve parachute, something only the U. S. No other nation, at that time, used reserves.
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