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Date Posted: Wed, September 24 2008, 11:40:50
Author: TSGT Crawford W. Garland
Author Host/IP: tn-67-236-14-62.dhcp.embarqhsd.net / 67.236.14.62
Subject: 1965 Danang Air Force Base

Does anyone remember a sheet metal worker that came down from Okinawa to fix a hole in one of the C-130 wing. The night that the bombing took place I was out where the C-130's were working on some flare kicks boxes. One of the guys (a TSGT) from Okinawa came out and told me that a C-130 was coming in and he would get me on it to go back to Okinawa. It was right about darkness and I just had enough time to get my tool box and my air-hose.I didn't have enough time to cut the lights off, I just left the flood lights on, and the plane pulled in about the time we got down to terminal. When I landed the next morning in Okinawa the maintenance Officer and maintenance NCO meet the air-craft and I got off and they were shocked to see me, because they had got a report that I was dead in the attack. Now I am having trouble proving I was in Vietnam, and am hoping someone remembers me and can vouch that I was there at Danang. Does anyone remember the mobile homes that were built in Okinawa and were shipped on the C-130's to different bases in Vietnam, most were used for job control and elictronis buildings. I helped build them and delivered all but one of them.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who remembers me.
TSGT Crawford W. Garland, retired

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Re: 1965 Danang Air Force Base -- Don Poss, Wed, September 24 2008, 21:36:22 (cpe-75-82-145-99.socal.res.rr.com/75.82.145.99)

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>Does anyone remember a sheet metal worker that came >down from Okinawa to fix a hole in one of the C-130 >wing. The night that the bombing took place I was out >where the C-130's were working on some flare kicks >boxes. One of the guys (a TSGT) from Okinawa came out >and told me that a C-130 was coming in and he would >get me on it to go back to Okinawa. It was right about >darkness and I just had enough time to get my tool box >and my air-hose.I didn't have enough time to cut the >lights off, I just left the flood lights on, and the >plane pulled in about the time we got down to >terminal. When I landed the next morning in Okinawa >the maintenance Officer and maintenance NCO meet the >air-craft and I got off and they were shocked to see >me, because they had got a report that I was dead in >the attack. Now I am having trouble proving I was in >Vietnam, and am hoping someone remembers me and can >vouch that I was there at Danang. Does anyone >remember the mobile homes that were built in Okinawa >and were shipped on the C-130's to different bases in >Vietnam, most were used for job control and elictronis >buildings. I helped build them and delivered all but >one of them. >I would appreciate hearing from anyone who remembers >me. >TSGT Crawford W. Garland, retired
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